Nearly two years ago I lamented the dearth of "young guns" in legal technology. Dennis Kennedy emailed me to say that Tom Mighell of Inter Alia was such a person.
Apparently, Dennis and I have different notions of a young gun. Tom is my age. I define a young gun as someone under the age of 30.
Legends like Ross Kodner and Dennis Kennedy were in their twenties when they started writing about legal technology. Why isn't there a Ross 2.0 or Dennis 2.0 on the scene?
Well, maybe there is.
Meet Robin Hood (his real name), a third year law student at Mississippi College of Law. Concerned about the error-prone nature of using previous documents to create new documents at the law firm where he clerks, he created a set of Microsoft Word macros for drafting routine documents such as letters and pleadings. He also bought a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking so that he could verbally produce these documents.
Robin demoed his work on YouTube as you would expect a young gun to do. Watch his instructive video, Speech Recognition for Lawyers (click here if you can't see the video below).
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