Montreal 2024, Generative AI and Justice

This conference was a unique opportunity for legal and justice players to better understand and position themselves on the emerging uses of generative AI across several sectors—a technology that arouses both enthusiasm and concern. Attendees met leading international players and experts who deployed some of the first generative AI solutions in various sectors (Healthcare, Law, Consulting, and Administration), discovered best practices related to its integration, and envisioned the future of this new technology for law and justice.

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California at Berkeley and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.

Brad presently serves as Chief, Administrative Law Operations & Technology Futures at the MITRE Corporation, a leading systems engineering firmin McLean, VA. He joined MITRE initially as Principal Strategist and later became a Portfolio Director.

Olga V. Mack is a pioneering leader in law, technology, and innovation, a Fellow at CodeX, the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics, a lecturer at Berkeley Law, and Generative AI Editor at law.MITComputational Law Report.

President of CEPSM.ca |Public Sector and Non-profit Management Consultant, Trainer & Speaker specializing in Strategic Marketing / Comms, Behaviour Change, Digital Engagement, and Digital Culture.

Erin Walker is the Director of Strategy and Enablement at Clio, and has been working in digital communications since Netscape Navigator was a viable web browser. She has extensive experience operationalizing technology to achieve business goals, and she’s « practically obsessed » with AI, speaking to thousands of lawyers worldwide about AI in legal. She is passionate about using technology to solve problems and make the world a better place.

As a Senior Director on the Product team at Relativity, Elise manages the strategy roadmap for Relativity’s AI-powered review products: Review Center, Search, and most recent to market, aiR for Review. She has been at Relativity for close to 9 years, always focused on core AI products.

Max is a Client Director specializing in Legal Technology at Thomson Reuters, where he has held various roles over the past 11 years. With extensive experience in assisting clients with legal change management, Max now advises on Generative AI productivity and drafting SaaS solutions. Max has a legal background, having completed his master’s thesis at Université de Montréal.

Hannes Westermann is Assistant Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence at Maastricht University and the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab. His research focuses on the use of AI and generative AI to improve access to justice. He recently obtained his PhD from the Université de Montréal and the Cyberjustice Laboratory, where he developed JusticeBot, an innovative online platform that provides legal information to laypeople using AI. The platform has been used over 40,000 times. He has presented his research findings at international conferences and was awarded the “Best Paper Award” at JURIX 2020 and 2023. His work has also been featured in the Financial Times and Context.news.

Maria Khalusova, a Staff Developer Advocate at Unstructured.io, currently works on addressing the challenges of preprocessing complex unstructured data for GenAI applications, such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). Previously, she contributed to the field through her work on open-source projects at Hugging Face, and educational efforts to make building GenAI applications broadly accessible to all.

I have about 2 decades of hands-on experience working across the software stack from optimizing parallel processing infrastructure for Apple devices to orchestrating massive data systems in cloud native environments at Confluent & Databricks. I am now the cofounder and CTO of TrueLaw, where we are building bespoke models for law firms for a wide variety of tasks. Our platform allows law firms to train proprietary models using their lawyers’ unique expertise and feedback.

A.T. (Adam) Kingsmith is a writer, technologist, and mental health researcher. His work focuses on the political economy of anxiety and the development of emotion-AI systems to improve social and economic outcomes. He completed his PhD at York University and currently teaches in Faculty of Arts and Science at OCADU. He is also co-founder of EiQ Technologies Inc., an emotion-AI startup formerly based at Toronto Metropolitan University’s Creative Innovation Studio.

Hoda Heidari is the K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, with joint appointments in Machine Learning and Societal Computing. She is affiliated with the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Her research is broadly concerned with the social, ethical, and economic implications of Artificial Intelligence, particularly issues of fairness and accountability through the use of Machine Learning in socially consequential domains.

Ivan Alfaro is a Senior AI Product Manager at Relativity, where he has worked for seven years. He manages a portfolio of AI products, including sentiment analysis, and has co-authored white papers on Relativity’s approach to developing responsible AI solutions for e-Discovery and Investigation. Ivan holds an MSc and PhD in Management of Information Systems.