Livingston, New Jersey – April 29, 2025 – Veritext Legal Solutions, the leader in court reporting and litigation support solutions, today announces that Mike Murray, Veritext’s Vice President of Product Strategy was recently featured alongside leading legal technology innovators on Ari Kaplan’s Reinventing Professionals podcast!
There is still time to register for our next complimentary webinar on June 27th.
In this webinar, we will look at the growing role of AI in legal settings and how it’s changing portions of the legal landscape in Canada, as well as look at the critical considerations for its ethical usage and practice.
We will examine the different types of AI, including generative AI such as voice-to-text transcription, content summarization tools, the critical and multi-faceted role of a court reporter and the potential impacts on the legal field. We will address the challenge of identifying and avoiding deepfakes and ways to ensure the accuracy and integrity of legal transcripts. We will also review recent case studies and real-world applications of both successful and unsuccessful AI usage in legal proceedings.
You can register here.
This course is approved in British Columbia for 1 (one) hour of CPD credit. Please check with your provincial law society regarding CPD credit requirements.
By Mike Murray and Tony Donofrio
Reprinted with the permission of Mike Murray, Director of Client Solutions, and Law.com. This article was originally published in April 2024.
Livingston, New Jersey – March 13, 2024 – Veritext Legal Solutions, the leader in court reporting services and innovative litigation support solutions, today announces the release of Smart Summary, an AI-generated and editable draft summarization of the official proceeding transcript.
Smart Summary is delivered alongside the certified transcript and provides legal teams with efficiency when it comes to case strategy and the transcript summarization process. With Smart Summary, the legal team has access to a draft page-line summary in an editable format to easily mark up text and highlight key testimony.
Benefits of Smart Summary include:
“Smart Summary uses the power of AI to give legal teams a head start on producing their transcript summaries. It’s delivered alongside the certified transcript, formatted in a page-line style and can be easily modified,” states Mike Murray, director of technical and creative solutions at Veritext. “The best part is that Smart Summary is created with the same data security standards that Veritext is known for – which means that even though it’s AI-generated content, legal teams don’t have to worry about their confidential information being shared or showing up somewhere public.”
Smart Summary will be returned with all transcripts delivered before May 1 at no additional cost. To learn more about Smart Summary, visit www.veritext.com/smartsummary/.
By Mike Murray
Learn about how new technologies are shaping the legal industry in the Law.com article, “The Rise of AI in Court Reporting Technology,” by Mike Murray, Veritext’s Director of Technical and Creative Solutions.
By Tony Donofrio and Mike Murray
Check out the recent article, “Testimonial Evidence Technology Is Transforming the Litigation Landscape,” featured in the November issue of Cybersecurity Law & Strategy on Law.com. Written by Tony Donofrio (Veritext Chief Technology Officer) and Mike Murray (Veritext’s Director of Technical and Creative Solutions), this article covers innovative ways that you can utilize technology to manage, capture and present evidence with the latest legal service technologies.
In recent years, the legal industry has seen a significant shift towards digitization and the adoption of paperless practices. Covid protocols and the rising trend of hybrid and remote work have certainly sped up that trend.
Advancements made in the fast digital distribution of files — through encrypted hyperlinks — have become the more superior, more sustainable, and more secure solutions for transcript and exhibit delivery. With paperless legal services, law firms and courts can significantly reduce their paper consumption and the associated costs, such as printing, storage, and secure disposal.
It will come as no surprise that the legal industry is a significant consumer of paper. From bankers’ boxes full of files to legal binders and correspondence… the list goes on. By adopting paperless practices and utilizing digital technologies, legal services can reduce their environmental impact and improve the efficiency and accessibility of the legal industry. The benefits of going paperless in the legal sector are many. First and foremost, it is a more sustainable and eco-friendly approach. According to the American Bar Association, an average case with a duration of a year can generate between 20,000 to 100,000 sheets of paper including motions, discoveries, transcripts, exhibits, and other legal documents. The statistics in Canada will no doubt be similar. That’s a lot of trees.
Another advantage of going paperless is improving access to justice. Today we can ensure that legal documents and information are easily accessible to authorized parties while maintaining a high level of security and confidentiality. In 2019, the Ministry of the Attorney General of BC published a ‘roadmap’ to their digital transformation. You can read the report here. The comprehensive report looks at the inevitable transformation of the legal industry into a digital model and how that impacts our legal system. BC and Court systems across Canada – including the Supreme Court – and the United States have developed comprehensive electronic filing systems that allow users to upload multiple documents per case to be used for all filings (with some exceptions).
Veritext has a long-standing commitment to sustainability. Our technological orientation is central to mitigating our environmental impact and we invite you to read more about our sustainability practices and strategies to lessen our own environmental impact in this comprehensive report.
Our commitment to building a more sustainable industry is why our standard transcript deliverables are via secure and encrypted electronic hyperlinks — however, we understand the needs of our clients — and hard copies of all your proceedings will continue to be available upon request. We are dedicated to customizing your experience with our client services, providing cutting-edge solutions, and capturing your desired preferences to deliver the best service tailored to your needs.
