In this episode of the SecurityANGLE, host Shelly Kramer, managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, is joined by fellow analyst, engineer, and member of theCUBE Collective community for a conversation exploring generative AI, security, and law firm readiness for Microsoft 654 Copilot with Jason Thomas. Thomas is the CIO at Cole, Scott, Kisan, one of the AM Law 200 and Florida's largest law firm.
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an enterprise-grade generative AI Assistant and part of the Microsoft application suite designed to enhance user productivity. The AI assistant works in conjunction with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.
Thomas has been the CIO of Cole, Scott, and Kisane for the better part of a decade and it's safe to see he's seen a lot in that time, including the firm's embrace of AI for business process automation and other tasks for quite some time. That's why we wanted to discuss generative AI and how he sees it advancing into the law firm realm and what he sees happening on the adoption front.
Our conversation covered a variety of topics, including:
- Thoughts on the news that global law firm Clifford Chance, with 34 offices across 23 countries and 3,600 lawners rolled out Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite at scale across its entire workforce, which is probably the first and largest instance of international law firms to integrate Microsoft Copilot.
- Where Thomas sees the legal field in general on the adoption of generative AI.
- How CIOs in the legal sector educate lawyers and their teams about Microsoft Copilot and its capabilities, and how discovery teams define processes and maintain them for these new Copilot Discovery tasks.
- What CIOs in the legal field are doing and thinking about access and permissioning for confidential, sensitive, and proprietary data.
- What's ahead from an eDiscovery standpoint: a shift from custodian-centric data to collaborative data and often content-centric data, and what different methods of scoping preservation and collection requests we might see ahead.
We wrapped this show with Jason's advice to legal field practitioners interested in integrating generative AI into their operations, what to think about and where to start.
In this episode of the SecurityANGLE, host Shelly Kramer, managing director and principal analyst at theCUBE Research, is joined by fellow analyst, engineer, and member of theCUBE Collective community for a conversation exploring generative AI, security, and law firm readiness for Microsoft 654 Copilot with Jason Thomas. Thomas is the CIO at Cole, Scott, Kisan, one of the AM Law 200 and Florida's largest law firm.
Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 is an enterprise-grade generative AI Assistant and part of the Microsoft application suite designed to enhance user productivity. The AI assistant works in conjunction with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, SharePoint, etc.
Thomas has been the CIO of Cole, Scott, and Kisane for the better part of a decade and it's safe to see he's seen a lot in that time, including the firm's embrace of AI for business process automation and other tasks for quite some time. That's why we wanted to discuss generative AI and how he sees it advancing into the law firm realm and what he sees happening on the adoption front.
Our conversation covered a variety of topics, including:
- Thoughts on the news that global law firm Clifford Chance, with 34 offices across 23 countries and 3,600 lawners rolled out Microsoft 365 and Viva Suite at scale across its entire workforce, which is probably the first and largest instance of international law firms to integrate Microsoft Copilot.
- Where Thomas sees the legal field in general on the adoption of generative AI.
- How CIOs in the legal sector educate lawyers and their teams about Microsoft Copilot and its capabilities, and how discovery teams define processes and maintain them for these new Copilot Discovery tasks.
- What CIOs in the legal field are doing and thinking about access and permissioning for confidential, sensitive, and proprietary data.
- What's ahead from an eDiscovery standpoint: a shift from custodian-centric data to collaborative data and often content-centric data, and what different methods of scoping preservation and collection requests we might see ahead.
We wrapped this show with Jason's advice to legal field practitioners interested in integrating generative AI into their operations, what to think about and where to start.