A Lawyer and Technologist Walk Into a Northwestern Lecture Hall

Welcome back to the Big Law Business column on the changing legal marketplace written by me, Roy Strom.

Last week, I compared the recent transformation of the TV industry to the changes happening in the market for legal services and concluded that the scale of “disruptions” were not quite on par. At least not right now.

Kristian Hammond is a computer science professor at Northwestern University who has experience watching other industries react to the introduction of artificial intelligence and reconfigure accordingly. Through a company he founded, Narrative Science, he has worked with journalists to build tools that write ...