AI Takes Center Stage at Legal Week

Stacey is Counsel and E-Discovery Lead in the Corporate Litigation Department of IBM. She manages all aspects of E-Discovery for Corporate Litigation, from working on global and domestic cases, to setting policies and best practices in e-discovery, maintaining IBM’s e-discovery mapping, and keeping all company-wide platforms of communication compliant with preservation, retention, review and production capabilities. Stacey handles IBM third party subpoenas with duties including reviewing and analyzing subpoena requests, drafting and serving objections, negotiating scope, identifying and interviewing custodians and data source owners, retrieving, reviewing and producing documents, and representing IBM witnesses at depositions.Key TakeawaysIndustry professionals at Legal Week want to know how AI works. What are the different concerns regarding ethics, integrity, accountability, and auditability of AI? Stacey says AI is promising, but it won’t replace human beings. She thinks it will augment life such as expediting critical healthcare decisions and saving lives.Her team is running a trial using generative AI on Slack data using an e-discovery vendor.Stacey plans to get an AI certification so that she can take her team to the next level.