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The Effective Lawyer teaches ambitious trial lawyers how to grow their skills and create a prosperous law firm. Using lessons learned by accomplished attorneys from around the country, we discuss lessons learned through their trials and tribulations. Our discussions cover a vast range of topics sought out by attorneys looking for advice, from depositions to how to market your law firm.
The show is hosted by Jack Zinda, Founder and Senior Trial Lawyer at Zinda Law Group. In less than 15 years, Jack and his team have grown Zinda Law Group from 3 attorneys to over 30, spanning several states and handling a variety of personal injury cases from gas explosions to truck accidents.
Jack and his guests share their knowledge and skills that they’ve acquired through the process of building one of the most successful plaintiff’s law firms in the country.
In each show we cover a new topic that an ambitious attorney would want to better understand, while providing practical skills to improve their legal practice.
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Speaker 2
Welcome to the Effective Lawyer, a podcast for ambitious attorneys who want to improve their practice. My name is Jack Zinda and I'll be your host. Hey everybody. Jack Zinda here. Today I want to talk to you about some ways that I think artificial intelligence will change the personal injury law practice and explain why I think these areas will be changed. And then on another episode, I'm talking about ways that I don't think this will affect our practice in ways that I don't think it'll be affected. In a lot of ways. Artificial intelligence is going to be a game changer in a lot of ways. It's not going to live up to the hype, in my opinion.
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Speaker 2
So let's talk about some of the ways I think that it's going to add a lot of value and live up to some of the hype you're hearing in the news. I think the first area is going to be drafting demand letters. I think that a lot of the technology is going to be able to give you a good head start on drafting demands by taking information you provide it and put it in a format that you think makes the most sense.
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Speaker 2
Now, one of the reasons why I think it's going to be so interesting how it handles demand letters is you're going to be able to upload all the different demands that you've sent and maybe people that you know have sent if they're willing to share it, and then try to figure out what are the commonalities with what makes a demand successful or not and how best to put those things together. And I think the technology is just going to get better and better. Now I think you're always going to need an attorney to review, edit, revise, decide what points to make in a demand letter. But I think for a lot of the routine ones, it's going to save hours of time on the drafting of the letter itself and also different sections of the demand.
01:57
Speaker 2
I think giving client updates, believe it or not, is going to be very helpful in that. I think it allows the attorney to do a update from the case file that the AI would then draft and present to the lawyer to review and then send them all out in batch. So I think it also save time on our process piece then also in the drafting side of the case. I could even envision a world where it would ask you, do you want me to set an appointment with your client? And they would automatically get one on your schedule based on some pre existing parameters. I think drafting pleadings, I think this is going to be an area where it's going to save attorneys a ton of time. Petitions, answers.
02:35
Speaker 2
If you're on the defense side, I think it can help a lot with motions for summary judgment with those sorts of things. I think brief writing in that same regard, it's going to be a game changer, especially for appellate attorneys. I think Shepardizing cases, finding citations, explaining what the citations mean. I think this will save hundreds and hundreds of hours for the attorneys conducting other types of legal research. So getting you answers to questions along with the citations to those legal answers and questions. Next, I think valuing cases number six.
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Speaker 2
I think valuing cases is going to be very helpful because I think what it'll be able to do is look at a big data set of different law firms, how much they settled cases for, and then you plug in different values for your case and then it would be able to give you a list of cases that may make the most sense.
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Speaker 1
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