{"id":164948,"date":"2026-10-14T07:13:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/adventures-in-legal-tech-where-knowledge-management-meets-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T07:13:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:13:03","slug":"adventures-in-legal-tech-where-knowledge-management-meets-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/14\/adventures-in-legal-tech-where-knowledge-management-meets-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Adventures In Legal Tech\u2019: Where Knowledge Management Meets AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2273506732-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1192848\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law firms are pouring money into AI adoption right now, hoping a new tool will magically organize decades of scattered knowledge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody threw anything away, but almost nobody organized it either, notes Rachel Shields Williams, the director of AI and knowledge management at Bass, Berry &amp; Sims and president of the Legal Marketing Association. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of \u201cAdventures in Legal Tech,\u201d Rachel joins host Jared Correia to discuss the state of most firms\u2019 data and how the industry can manage it more effectively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI Can Do Everything, Right?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrong. The real work, Rachel\u00a0 says, happens before any AI tool touches your files.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Respecting the \u2018Riptide\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using technology in a law firm can also be a lot like swimming in the ocean. Here, Rachel explains why.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Full Conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious to learn more? Check out this episode below<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/adventures-in-legal-tech-where-knowledge-management-meets-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Adventures In Legal Tech\u2019: Where Knowledge Management Meets AI<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/GettyImages-2273506732-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1192848\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Law firms are pouring money into AI adoption right now, hoping a new tool will magically organize decades of scattered knowledge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody threw anything away, but almost nobody organized it either, notes Rachel Shields Williams, the director of AI and knowledge management at Bass, Berry &amp; Sims and president of the Legal Marketing Association. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this episode of \u201cAdventures in Legal Tech,\u201d Rachel joins host Jared Correia to discuss the state of most firms\u2019 data and how the industry can manage it more effectively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>AI Can Do Everything, Right?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wrong. The real work, Rachel\u00a0 says, happens before any AI tool touches your files.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Respecting the \u2018Riptide\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using technology in a law firm can also be a lot like swimming in the ocean. Here, Rachel explains why.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Full Conversation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Curious to learn more? Check out this episode below<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2026\/10\/adventures-in-legal-tech-where-knowledge-management-meets-ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Adventures In Legal Tech\u2019: Where Knowledge Management Meets AI<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Law firms are pouring money into AI adoption right now, hoping a new tool will magically organize decades of scattered knowledge. Nobody threw anything away, but almost nobody organized it either, notes Rachel Shields Williams, the director of AI and knowledge management at Bass, Berry &amp; Sims and president of the Legal Marketing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":164919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}