An immigration law firm using an AI-based expert system to automate both routine and complex tasks and a law school lab designed to prepare students for innovative practice are the 2019 winners of the College of Law Practice Management’s InnovAction Awards.
The COLPM presents the awards each year “to those unsung heroes and rising stars within the legal profession who dare to think differently and succeed by doing so.” Entrants are judged based on their originality, disruption, value and effectiveness. Their innovations must have occurred within three years of entry.
This year’s winners are:
Key Team Members: Greg Siskind, Josh Waddell and Jason Susser.
Siskind Susser is an immigration law firm based in Memphis that has been using Neota Logic’s AI-based expert system studio for more three years to create apps that replicate legal analysis and automate routine and complex tasks and document generation. Some apps are free and were developed rapidly in response to immigration policy changes and enforcement actions to assist people with immediate needs. Others involved hundreds of hours of work to develop.
The apps will soon be incorporated into case management systems and the firm recently signed a distribution agreement with the American Immigration Lawyers Association to market the apps to its 16,000 members. Among the apps are:
An H-1B public access file generator that makes it easy for employers to meet the 24-hour deadline to create this series of documents and notify labor unions. A 50-state immigration advisor that assists rural and inner-city hospitals in assessing whether they qualify to recruit international physicians to work in their facilities. An app that advises people born abroad whether they are considered citizens at birth. An app rolled out in one day in Spanish and English that helped DACA recipients understand how they were affected
