Articles written by Noah Waisberg

Noah Waisberg
CEO and Co-Founder
Kira Systems

Prior to co-founding Kira Systems, Noah practiced at the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York, where he focused on private equity, M&A, and securities. Noah is an expert on contract analysis, legal technology, and artificial intelligence; has spoken at conferences including SXSW Interactive, ILTACON, and ReInvent Law; and has been named the FT’s Intelligent Business Market Shaper and ILTA’s Innovative Thought Leader of the Year. Noah holds a J.D. from the NYU School of Law, an A.M. from Brown University, and a B.A. with honours from McGill University.

How Law Firm CIOs Can Make Corporate Associates Happy

The American Lawyer’s annual Midlevel Associates Survey includes a number of questions on firm technology. This year, in the words of Law Technology News, associates were underwhelmed.

How Accurate is Kira Systems at Finding Contract Provisions?

Kira Systems quickly reads agreements for user–specified provisions (e.g., term, assignment, change of control) and puts its findings into summary charts.

Where Legal Jobs are Going to Be

The New York City Bar Association has convened a task force to study the current tight legal job market. The Wall Street Journal writes:

How to Cheat at Due Diligence

The DiligenceEngine team has been speaking with a lot of corporate lawyers lately. A few partners have mentioned that one worry with using our system (which automatically populates diligence contract review summaries with provisions like assignment and change of control) is that associates could use our system to “cheat” on due diligence.

Is Lawyer Regulation Killing Law Firms?

Today’s Wall Street Journal features an article by Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall of the Brookings Institution, attempting to hitch their lawyer deregulation drive to Dewey & LeBoeuf’s collapse.

My Co-Worker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics Presentation Video

Here’s a video of Alex’s and my presentation at lawTechCamp 2012 (held on May 12, 2012 in Toronto, Canada) titled My Co-Worker is a Robot: The [Coming] Age of Legal Informatics.

Is Your Due Diligence Accuracy a 'Known-Known'?

Do you know how accurate your due diligence contract review is? Seriously, do you? Does your team find every relevant change of control provision?

April Fools! Or Not.

Google announced a partnership with NASCAR for their 2012 April Fools joke: Google’s self-driving cars were to compete in NASCAR races.

Is Technology Making Us Dumber?

Has your once-good ability to remember phone numbers declined to the point where you can dial few without looking? Do you now also forget facts, dates or the exact wording of legal rules that you once remembered well?