#53: AI in Legal Research. Interview with Damien Riehl of Fastcase

The Tech Savvy Lawyer

Recent advancements related to artificial intelligence have presented us with a plethora of tools we can use to optimize our workflows in many ways. In this week's episode, we dive into some of the AI-based technologies that lawyers can utilize for their legal research. Joining us today is Damien Riehl, VP of Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content at Fastcase. Damien is a technology lawyer who advises clients on tech, litigated tech issues, remediated cybersecurity issues, and developed software. He is also a musician. After working for state and federal judges and litigating for 15 years, Damien's work at Fastcase includes parsing and extracting valuable data from 700 million legal documents, interacting with AI-backed technologies to improve legal workflows and power legal data analytics, and providing substantive insights.

Join Damien and me as we discuss the following three questions and more!

1. What are your three favorite tech tools that help make your workflows sing?
2. What are three ways Fastcase uses technology, for example, integration research, etc., uniquely or better than its competitors?
3. What three tech tools do you feel attorneys underutilize in their research and writing?

In our conversation, we cover,

[00.45] Tech setup – Damien shares his current technological setup and how he uses them.

[04.33] Surface laptop – Damien dives into what he loves about surface laptops.

[12.52] Favorite tools – Damien shares his three favorite tech tools, how he uses them, and why those are his favorite.

[18.39] Security concerns – Damien explains why he doesn't have security concerns with chrome and google.

[20.04] Cybersecurity – Strong password, keeping a password manager, use two-factor authentication are the three things that attorneys need to be aware of when it comes to cybersecurity, says Damien.

[21.58] Password managers – Damien dives into the importance of password managers and what software he uses for password managers.

[25.07] Fastcase – A legal research software company based in Washington. Damien dives into three ways Fastcase uses technology.

[35.20] Research & writing – Damien shares three tech tools that attorneys underutilize in their research and writing.

RESOURCES:

Connect with Damien:

LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/damienriehl/

Twitter - twitter.com/damienriehl

YouTube - youtube.com/channel/UCGzvlbnpXo4E_H62eIGR7Tw

TED - ted.com/speakers/damien_riehl

Equipment Mentioned in the Podcast:

• Surface laptop – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface
• iPhone 7 - support.apple.com/kb/SP743?locale=en_US
• Mackie microphones - mackie.com/en/products/microphones
• In-Ear Monitor ­- shure.com/en-US/products/in-ear-monitoring
• Microsoft keyboard – microsoft.com/en-us/store/collections/keyboards
• Logitech mice - logitech.com/en-us/products/mice.html
• Monochrome printer – brother-usa.com/black-and-white-printers#sort=relevancy

Software & Services Mentioned in the Podcast:

• Calendly - calendly.com/
• Clio - clio.com/
• Rocket matter - rocketmatter.com/
• Zapier - zapier.com/
• Trello - trello.com/home
• Chrome browser - google.com/chrome/
• Text blaze - blaze.today/
• TextExpander - textexpander.com/
• Outlook - outlook.live.com/owa/
• LastPass - lastpass.com/
• 1Password - 1password.com/
• Fastcase - fastcase.com/
• Slack - slack.com/