One Year After GPT-4: What Generative AI Means to Lawyers

Stephanie Wilkins is the Editor-in-Chief of Legaltech News at ALM. She has spent the better part of the past decade following the evolution of legal tech and learning how it can help in-house counsel, law firms and others in the legal industry. As a former practicing litigator, she is particularly interested in how legal tech can and should be used in real-life practice and the valuable differences it can make. Stephanie is also keenly interested in shining a light on the ways legal tech is being used to help the greater good.

Brad Blickstein is a legal industry futurist. He has been studying, analyzing and reporting on how legal services are purchased and delivered for more than 30 years. As the creator and publisher of seminal research on trends in law department operations, including the Annual Law Department Operations Survey, and as a co-founder of the industry’s first independent publication focused exclusively on law departments, Brad is widely regarded as the authority in these areas.

Dr. Lingfei Wu is a distinguished engineer and entrepreneur known for his contributions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing. He is the Co-founder and CEO of Anytime.AI, a generative AI startup that aims to boost efficiency and effectiveness in the legal field.

Dr. Wu earned a doctorate in computer science from the College of William and Mary and went on to hold several esteemed tech positions. He previously served as an engineering Leader in Content Understanding at Pinterest, leading a group of applied scientists, software engineers, and product managers on various projects using large language models (LLMs) and Generative AI technologies. Prior to Pinterest, he was a Principal Scientist at JD.COM Silicon Valley Research Center, leading a team to build next generation Large Language Models (LLMs)-powered E-commerce systems. Earlier in his career, Dr. Wu was a research staff member at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and led a team developing novel Graph Neural Networks methods and systems. This work led to multiple awards and over 65 patents, earning him appointments as an IBM Master Inventor.

Henry Hu is a seasoned business executive driving growth and innovation responsibly and effectively. He co-founded Anytime AI together with Lingfei Wu and Yu Chen, bringing 25+ years of professional experience with IBM, 1010Data, Yummet, and Kearney.

Henry was once the CFO for Strategic Imperatives in IBM Systems, leading teams to support business lines and enabled 3X strategic revenue growth from $1.4B to $4.2B. He has 15+ years of experience in finance planning & analyses, investment planning and risk management from IBM, and brings the risk management mindset to help clients mitigate risks with AI, security, data privacy, etc.

Shenyang Wu is a founding partner of Alpha Law. His practice focuses on personal injury litigation and investigation involving pedestrian, motor vehicle accidents, construction injuries, premises liability, and article 78 actions against municipalities. Mr. Wu also has experience in labor and employment, and dispute resolution of construction law.

Mr. Wu is admitted to New York State and is a member of the New York State Bar. He serves as a Co-Chair of Solo and Small Practice Committee in New York County Lawyer Association, and as a panelist of legal referral services in Asian American Bar Association of New York.