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transcribe up to 10 hours of con tent per month for $12 per month or $144 per year. With the Pro plan, you get advanced features, such as multitrack editing and advanced export options, and can transcribe up to 30 hours of con tent per month for $24 per month or $288 per year. If one desires custom invoicing, more flexibility, security or expedited support, you can also opt for an Enterprise plan by contacting the Descript team. Julie Bays reviewed Descript for the ABA Law Practice Magazine . 13 PRESEASON MVP PICKS CoCounsel and Copilot CoCounsel from Thomson Reuters and Copilot from Microsoft were covered in the first installment of this series. We note them here again just to say that we believe these will be the tools most likely to be adopted initially and broadly by lawyers. CoCounsel, the legal research tool, was retailing for $500 per user per month. Even at that price

point, we have heard many positive comments from satisfied customers as to how their legal research was improved by using this tool. Copilot from Microsoft is coming soon and will use all your data in Microsoft files ( e.g. , Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint). That will provide some amazing capabilities. Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway recently recorded a Digital Edge podcast, “Microsoft’s Copilot: New AI Tools for Microsoft 365!” 14 with Microsoft’s Ben Schorr. The day after they recorded their podcast, Microsoft announced pricing for Copilot at $30 per user per month on top of your Microsoft 365 subscription. PROMPTS In the AI world, your questions or queries are called prompts. These are sets of instructions we provide to AI chatbots to get them to perform a task. Multiple queries can sharpen the results, with each building on previous prompts.

DRAFTING TOOLS Copy.ai

Copy.ai 12 is not for legal writing, but it is a great tool for writing for a general audience, whether it is a blog post or website copy. There is a free version that is limited to writing 2,000 words per month. The Pro version costs $36 per month but licenses up to five users and includes priority tech support. drafting software trained on thou sands of business contracts, as well as other data. I would encourage you to watch the four-minute video at www.spellbook.legal. In just a few short years, many, or perhaps most, contracts will be drafted using contract drafting tools. Spellbook’s website states it was trained on billions of lines of legal text. We saw this demonstrated at ABA TECHSHOW. It was amazing to watch as it proposed several contract provisions and allowed the lawyer to choose the one that was preferred. VIDEO TRANSCRIPTION AND EDITING TOOLS Descript Descript allows you to record a video or audio, and it will create a transcript of the words in the recording. One can then edit the audio by editing the text, and it will change the recording to reflect your changes. It will also automatically remove the “err” and “umm” sounds we often utter while recording. Descript offers different plans to suit different needs and bud gets. With the Free plan, you can record, transcribe, edit and mix up to one hour of content per month with filler word removal. With the Creator plan, you can access more features – such as overdub, screen record and publish – and Spellbook Spellbook is an AI contract

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN LAW PRACTICE

On-Demand CLE Coming Soon! Ever since ChatGPT made its debut in November 2022, the world has been abuzz about artificial intelligence. In this on- demand session, we will discuss and demonstrate some AI built-in tools that you may already have, plus some that can be useful right away. Putting aside the issues surrounding ethics, IP, security and robot overlords, how can AI help you to get things done faster? Join Catherine Sanders Reach, director of the North Carolina Bar Association Center for Practice Management, and Julie Bays, practice management advisor for the OBA Management Assistance Program, as we explore practical and tactical uses of AI in your practice. The program will be available in late September. Visit https://ok.webcredenza.com to access the session.

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