Rakesh Madhava<\/a>, founder and CEO of Nextpoint, said that in his many conversations with Lewis about the future of legal tech, they saw that their values and technical beliefs aligned.<\/p>\n\u201cFor over 20 years, Nextpoint has led the legal industry in the design and delivery of practical, secure internet-based technologies,\u201d Madhava said. \u201cIt\u2019s in our DNA. We were the first to leverage the power and scale of cloud-computing in legal tech, and adding Dr. Lewis\u2019 expertise to our leadership team is just further confirmation of our continued commitment to technology innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lewis told me that his number one priority as he steps into the position will be talking to the sales team and to clients about what they are asking for.\u00a0\u201cBut technically it will come of no surprise that I\u2019ll be particularly focused on AI: both traditional AI and generative AI.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the things that excites me about the Nextpoint platform is that it runs all the way from ingestion through trial preparation. I\u2019ve most worked at the center of the EDRM in the past \u2014 search, TAR, and so on. I\u2019m really excited about the possibilities for generative AI farther left and right in the EDRM.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile there\u2019s interesting applications in gen AI replacing or augmenting TAR,\u201d he said, \u201cI think its really strengths are on more constructive tasks: generating summaries, answering questions, creating other knowledge artifacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the course of his career, Lewis\u00a0pioneered many techniques that are now common in text analytics. In 2006, he was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2016, he received the Test of Time Award from the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval.<\/p>\n
Among his other credits, Lewis\u00a0co-chaired the EDRM working group on AI Ethics and Bias, served on the executive committee for the International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law from 2017 to 2021, and served and on the Seventh Circuit Electronic Discovery Pilot Program Committee from 2012 to 2020.<\/p>\n
Lewis has bachelor\u2019s degrees in mathematics and computer science from Michigan State University and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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