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The Real Lesson of the MIT Study: AI Works, If You Know How to Use It

Picture this: Six teams of senior legal professionals from the world’s largest law firms and investigation groups, each armed with nothing but a natural language question and access to 14,000 documents from one of Britain’s most complex scandals. Their challenge? Master an AI-powered investigation platform they’d never seen before and produce sophisticated multi-page reports analyzing the UK Post Office disaster. Their time limit? Just 45 minutes. The result? A groundbreaking demonstration that complex investigations and discovery will never be the same.

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From Search Hits to Answers: How GenAI Solved Complex Discovery Challenges at HKA’s “Hands On” AI Program in London

Picture this: Six teams of senior legal professionals from the world’s largest law firms and investigation groups, each armed with nothing but a natural language question and access to 14,000 documents from one of Britain’s most complex scandals. Their challenge? Master an AI-powered investigation platform they’d never seen before and produce sophisticated multi-page reports analyzing the UK Post Office disaster. Their time limit? Just 45 minutes. The result? A groundbreaking demonstration that complex investigations and discovery will never be the same.

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Will AI Eliminate Half of All Entry-LevelWhite-Collar Jobs Within the Next Five Years? 

The question isn’t whether this will happen. The legal profession—with its document-intensive workflows, analytical processes, and hierarchical training structures—sits directly in the crosshairs of this transformation. The question is whether we’ll adapt in time, or find ourselves wondering what happened.

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Merlin Launches Industry’s First GenAI Services Division for Legal and Investigation Teams

Merlin Search Technologies, a leader in AI-powered legal technology, today announced the launch of its GenAI Services Division, marking the industry’s first dedicated service offering that applies advanced generative AI technology to legal discovery and investigations. 

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GenAI Prompting for Smart Legal Professionals

When working with modern generative AI tools, creating effective prompts doesn’t have to be complicated or intimidating. One of the most powerful aspects of these systems is that you simply ask questions in plain English. In seconds, AI can analyze your request, find relevant information across your documents, and provide answers with links to source materials.

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Merlin Search Technologies Achieves Certification Under EU, UK, and Swiss Data Privacy Frameworks

Merlin Search Technologies, a leading provider of AI-powered software for search, investigations, discovery, and compliance, today announced its certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and Swiss-U.S. DPF.

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Don’t be Kodak: A Parable About AI and the Legal Profession

Rather than watching your firm slowly slide toward its own Kodak moment, why not embrace the new era of legal practice by creating specialized expertise in AI-powered legal solutions, developing new workflows that integrate AI for enhanced efficiency, and focusing human talent on the truly complex aspects of law that AI cannot handle. Firms that adapt will explore value-based pricing models that decouple revenue from time spent and transform their operations for dramatically greater efficiency.

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