Phil Naess-Gross

Sorry, tortoises of the world: there is no 'slow and steady wins the race' in e-discovery.

Over her 30 years of practicing law, AI Visionary Stephanie Mendelsohn has seen the evolution of e-discovery from the very start—and helped guide its path. Today, she sees artificial intelligence as an essential ingredient for legal teams, and as a great tool that increases the value of in-house legal work.

AI can fuel not just e-discovery, but its adjacencies—like information governance—to turn tedious tasks into high-value analytical exercises. That’s what drives AI Visionary Pam Schieffelin, vice president and legal counsel at Qualcomm, to embed machine learning into her team’s strategies.