AI Curiosity at Legal Week

Hi. I'm Lynn Tubalinal. I am the director of litigation support at Dykema, and I'm so happy to be here.

This is my third one.

Yes. In a row.

Yes.

I am not new.

Exactly. I've been around for a while.

I think the biggest thing for me is the networking. I'm I'm clearly an extrovert. And so I love talking to people, meeting new people, and kind of sharing ideas and figuring out what everybody else is doing in the rat race of life.

I'm trying to think how I would describe the vibe of this. You're obviously AI is just everywhere.

It's hard to not, like, avoid it. Obviously, like, I'm trying to get more different content because of what we're doing at Dykema this year. But AI is just gonna be around, and I'm we're gonna have to embrace it.

I mean, it's been around since nineteen fifty six. Right? That's how old AI is. People don't often realize that.

But what's different this year is so last year, you know, GenAI, ChatGPT became a thing that people started talking about. One of the things that Jared and I have been, you know, talking to other guests about was that this year, it's Gen AI, Chat GPT, it's real now. Yeah. It's really real.

Yeah. I've been trying to listen to what other people are sharing here at LegalWeek this year. Internally, obviously, there's a lot going on, and we have our strategic goals that we need to kind of go through. AI is obviously included in that list, but no real heavy movement.

So I'm here for more information to see what everybody else is doing and how it'll impact the legal field. I think your point and that is something that I've thought about over the years is that, in general, the legal field always is playing catch up. And so they're always slow to adopt. And yeah, I was in a conversation yesterday where, you know, how do we use this tool with GenAI, and how will attorneys adopt it?

And I think these are big considerations because it's the adoption is always slow. Like, they'll ask about it and be like, hey. This is this new big thing. But then never oh, I can't use it.

So it's trying to overcome that hurdle for being a technologist and figuring that out.

Not me directly, but I've had other leaders on IT with me that they've been asked. And so I know it's being talked about, but I don't think it's every attorney. It's, like, the attorneys who like tech stuff and are open to it. You know? I wish it was every attorney. That'd be amazing. But, you know, they're all still trying to get their billable hours in.

You know, we're all in this industry that finally is trying to do something greater than I think anybody has thought of, and that is moving a lot quicker. Right? I remember being back in the day as a paralegal and trying to get people to use, you know, a review tool. And so I feel that that energy as well here now from, like, twenty years ago, you know, as a young paralegal and trying to figure out all these, like, different tools, which, you know, versus me sifting through hard copies and bankers boxes, you know, and trying to figure that all out.

So I think that's that same I'm feeling that same of, hey. This there was a tool that I'd like back in my twenties. I'm feeling that same thing now, and I think that's why everybody's kind of moving towards it. Right?

And and they because you're right. It's a curiosity factor, and they're trying to figure out how we can make this amazing for our industry.

I think so. I think so. I think somebody typed something into, a good prompt. They figured it out. Yeah.

No. I have not.

Not that I'm aware of. Not that I'm aware of.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I think because TAR was super complicated at the beginning. Right? And there was it was difficult to explain how to use it. This is, like, very user friendly.

And so I feel like I could get my eight year old to probably figure out AI. Right? I mean, I think that's why. Right?

Anybody in age can use it, and it's just super simple. And and it the magic just happens.

No.

Oh my goodness. I'm sure my husband and his friends probably do the same, but it's not we don't really talk about it.

Yeah. What did you make?

Okay.

It sounds amazing.

Because of AI?

I feel like that was your own personal version of Chopped at Home.

So in the firm specifically, I have, like, a vision for twenty twenty four, how I want it to look like and how I wanna move forward. So a lot of the information that I've heard and, like, listened to and with the keynote speaker and everything, like, I've taken that, and I'm trying to figure out, formulate how I would fit it into that plan. So I don't know if I told you this, but one of my my word for this year is confidence. And Brian Cranston talked about quiet confidence, which was amazing.

And so I it really resonated with me about how there could be strength in how you, you know, say things and do things and act. And as a leader, that's how I'm trying to formulate our year and for our vision. So that's how I mean, professionally, in terms of, like, personal you know, personally at home or in the industry as a whole. I'm not sure.

Like, just having those conversations with other people and figuring out what's working best for them and to honor them in some way and using their ideas, not stealing them by any means. But, you know, just some of the, you know, you never know what kind of conversations you're gonna have and what kind of ideas you might get. So just keeping those conversations going and hopefully something good comes out of it.

Thank you. It was fun.