RALPH LOSEY
Lawyer/Educator
Ralph is a specialist in artificial intelligence, tech-law, new technology implementation and civil litigation. He has been a practicing attorney since 1980, including partnership in several large national firms since 2000.
Ralph is the author of five best-selling books on law and technology published by the American Bar Association or West-Thompson. He is also an educator in Law and Technology (2006 forward), including a four-year stint as an adjunct Law Professor at the University of Florida, where he designed and opened the law school’s first accredited online class. Ralph is also a white-hat-hacker and coder (1983 forward) and an AI specialist (since 2012). Ralph competed at DefCon31 in Las Vegas in the AI hacking competition.
Since 2023, Ralph has written over 130 articles (average 3,000-5,000 words in length) on generative AI and related topics. He now averages over 100,000 reads per year through his own e-Discovery Team blog, EDRM and JDSupra.
Ralph’s detailed resume
Primary websites of Ralph Losey:
e-DiscoveryTeam.com
Losey.AI
HackerWay.org and HackerLaw.org
AI-Ethics.com
Ralph is now semi-retired after 45-years of active practice as an attorney and arbitrator. He has extensive litigation and transactional experience in information technology, artificial intelligence, IP and related business issues. Although best known as an expert in technology and AI, his experience in civil litigation includes commercial litigation, fraud (including successful prosecution of the largest Qui Tam case in history), employment disputes, life insurance and ERISA litigation.
From 2006 to 2021, Ralph specialized in electronic discovery and various information technology issues, including the use of artificial intelligence (predictive coding) in litigation for discovery. After joining Losey PLLC in January 2022, he returned to a general legal technology advice and litigation practice and served as an AAA Arbitrator. By late 2022, he added a sub-specialty in the new area of generative AI.
In 2025 Ralph began winding-down his legal practice to devote full time to research, writing and teaching (in-person and online – see below) in the fields of artificial intelligence and quantum law. This shift to research, writing and education began in 2023. Ralph has now written and published over One Hundred Fifty peer-reviewed articles on generative AI and the law, listed below.
About Ralph Losey’s Work
Ralph first began using computers in law school in 1978. His practice has always combined the latest computer technologies with legal services, primarily in the areas of civil litigation, where one of his specialties was fraud. In 2010 Ralph became a partner in a large national law firm and limited his practice to supervision of e-discovery. There he refined his skills in active machine learning and predictive coding search for information in thousands of e-discovery projects. Over the years Ralph has legally “hacked” the computers, accounts and electronic communications of tens of thousands of people. This computer hacking was all legally conducted by Ralph as an attorney in the context of litigation or other legally authorized civil and criminal investigations.
Ralph retired from Big Law in 2021 but was intrigued back into practice with the advent of generative AI in 2022 and the surprise release of ChatGPT. Although he will sometimes still serve as an Arbitrator in interesting cases, Ralph now specializes in testing, research, coding and writing on generative AI as applied to law and life in general, not just discovery. He has written over 100 articles on generative AI and numerous videos on YouTube. Ralph now also directs and verifies AI generated podcasts of his articles for EDRM and creates custom, ad-free GPTs free to all users.
More Details on Ralph’s Legal Career and his Discovery Team Blog
Ralph created his first law related blog in 2006, e-DiscoveryTeam.com, to advocate for a team approach to electronic discovery, where lawyers, technologists, scientists, educators, vendors and other experts would work together. By 2010 Ralph’s specialty in e-discovery started to focus more narrowly on the use of Artificial Intelligence, specifically active machine learning, to search large quantities of data to find evidence needed for the resolution of lawsuits. At that time, he started work for a large national law firm supervising e-discovery in thousands of lawsuits across the country. There he refined his skills in active machine learning and predictive coding and created his free online training on these subjects, TAR Course. He was also the partner in charge of litigation support and personally involved in the firm’s major cases, including the landmark Da Silva Moore opinion, which first approved the use of AI to do e-discovery in leu of human review.
Ralph retired from Big Law to practice law with his son, Adam Losey, and daughter-in-law, Catherine Losey, and other twenty other excellent lawyers, at their law firm, Losey PLLC.
The e-Discovery team blog has since undergone a transformation. Artificial Intelligence “entities” of all kinds are now part of the team. Ralph uses Artificial Intelligence to connect the dots between e-Discovery, which has now become synonymous with discovery, and other fields of law, and life itself. The e-Discovery Team blog still focuses on technology and the law, as that is Ralph’s primary expertise, but it is evolving fast as the technologies go into the exponential stages of innovation. To learn more about the core ideas driving our expansion and reinvention, see Ralph’s related information webs, AI Ethics and Hacker Way, and LoseyAI, and his YouTube Channel and his latest social action website at ePluribusUNUM.ai
One of Ralph’s sayings as a lawyer is to take your work seriously, but not yourself. The e-Discovery Team blog, including Ralph’s videos and cartoon animations, some of which are shown on the right column of this blog, were all created in that spirit. The same goes for his many books and law review articles. See the blog Writings Page for a complete list of Ralph’s writings and online courses.
Notable Public Speaking Engagements
Ralph has been speaking about law and technology since the 1990s. Here are a few he still remembers. His most notable presentation was in Washington D.C. in 1996 to the International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers, of which he was a member. His presentation included a short performance of his computer relaxation music. This was followed by a private reception at the U.S. Supreme Court, attended by several Justices who were familiar with our work at IAHL, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Conner.
Ralph’s second favorite was his presentation in 1997 to the Board of Governors of The Florida Bar and several members of the Florida Supreme Court, followed by leadership of a panel discussion on the topic of the Internet and High Technology in the Practice of Law. After that he also recalls favorably his many opportunities to speak and lead panels at The Sedona Conference and at Legal Tech, especially his debates there with Craig Ball and his debates in London and elsewhere with Jason R. Baron.
Some of Ralph’s Other Notable Legal Achievements
- Over 740,000 LLM Tokens of Ralph’s e-Discovery Team writings are included in the OpenAI GPT 3.5 models. This is more than any other single lawyer or legal writer, as per the 2023 disclosures.
- Martindale-Hubbell AV since 1990s.
- Best Lawyers in America since 2013 in four fields: Information Technology Law, Electronic Discovery and Information Management Law, Commercial Litigation, and Employment Litigation (Management).
- Recognized and included in Super Lawyers since 2017.
- Adjunct Professor of Law, 2008-2012, University of Florida College of Law, teaching Introduction to Electronic Discovery, Advanced eDiscovery Seminar, Online eDiscovery (online class he designed and created in 2010, which was the first accredited online class on any subject at the University of Florida College of Law).
- Video creation with Jason R. Baron, Did You Know: e-Discovery.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, TREC Total Recall Track participant and team leader in 2015 and 2016 (demonstrated and measured the effectiveness of his method of information retrieval using artificial intelligence and other search techniques.
- First Place in the independently judged predictive coding document review competition in 2013 sponsored by EDI and Oracle. See EDI-Oracle Study: Humans Are Still Essential in E-Discovery (LTN Nov. 2013). Ralph was the only one-person team in the national event but prevailed against all ediscovery vendors and large review teams.
- Who’s Who in American Law since 1985.
Upon the release of ChatGPT Ralph’s interest in AI was renewed.
These were the smart computers that he had been waiting for since 1978. He has devoted a substantial portion of his professional time since November 2022 on study, research, experimentation, writing and speaking on LLM Generative Ai. This includes Ai assisted computer coding and the creation of new writings, illustrations, animations and videos. In late 2023 Ralph also started creating OpenAI ChatGPT applications, including his Visual Muse app to helps GPT4 users create visual images, which can be found in the OpenAI Store and are distributed without charge or add-on gimmicks.
Ralph is now one of the country’s most active legal researchers, writers and educators on generative Ai prompt engineering and quantul law. He is a hands-on user, aka ethical “hacker” type, a creative maker, not just a writer, teacher and lawyer-arbitrator. See the top right of the e-DiscoveryTeam.com blog his list of custom GPTs. He created them for use of ChatGPT products. Ralph now also directs and verifies AI generated podcasts of his articles for EDRM.
If you want to dig even deeper into his background there is still more information on the right column of this blog, including a short bio and recent interviews, even an AI podcast. But Ralph says the best thing to do is just read his blog. The contents are what matter, not the personality.
****** IMPORTANT NOTICE ******
Legal ethics require Ralph Losey to insist that you look at the important disclaimer and notice about this blog. It is Ralph’s own creation, not his firm’s, past or present. It contains Ralph Losey’s personal views, not necessarily his law firm or anyone else. The e-Discovery Team blog provides education, information, and editorial opinions only, not legal advice. It is certainly not an ad nor solicitation to provide legal services. No legal advice is provided here.
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just found this resource. a really good job. thanks sam
are you going to sedona end of april? if you are we can meet then. sam
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Excellent insight and instruction – thank for the time invested in this useful resource.
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Enjoy your blog. I am very experienced in complex litigation/e-discovery work and I must note that I have not yet seen a discussion of the best ways to properly prepare a client for all the tech supprt necessary to actually conduct the large scale doc review (# 6) above. This process requires hiring from 30 – 100 + attorneys to work 60+ hours a week for months on end on large scale projects. This is a very labor intensive and expensive phase of e-discovery. It has been my experience that the software programs/vendors/consultants/servers/internet pipelines etc. etc. are poorly chosen (cost) causing serious delays and cost over runs on many projects. I also note that so called service providers in this area often employ very junior and inexperienced people to serve as “techs” and ‘on-site trainers’ who are not really up to the task of servicing the daily needs of complex project workflow. I understand that clients make cost driven choices in these matters but they wind up paying far more in the end in excessive attorney hours and overtime because they don’t properly prepare for the review phase.
You raise a good issue. Any thoughts on how to do that would be appreciated. Many people, and cos, seem to be penny wise and pound foolish. Most of the expense in large projects is review, and I have tried to make that point several times.
Are tool vendors aligned more towards a particular type of litigation (e.g., patent vs. civil rights vs. contract)? If so, that would be one means to categorize. The next method I suggest is to qualify each tool by the type of algorithm used. For example, a simple text search would be given a low score while an AI based tool capable of conducting semantic searches would be given a high value.
Then again, we still have to deal with stegongraphy, OCR conversions and the odd extremelylongrunonsentencethatdescribestheinnerworkingsofapatent.
Each process is explained thoroughly. Clears all doubts about e-discovery. Good job done
Wow. Fantastic flow charts. Your use of visuals here was better than most of the text books I read, let alone blogs. Thanks a million for putting in the time here.
Very informative website and appropriate. As a representative on the IT side of the house, I can confirm that cost is a big push-back on bringing attorney review technology platforms in house and for companies that are involved in a relatively small number of litigations (say once per year), the cost of maintaining expertise in operating those platforms is also of concern.
IT departments quite easily fall into the trap you describe of over collection not really understanding what happens once turned over for review. Even the in-house managing attorney is not cognizant of the cost of over collection. Outsourcers (both technology and outside counsel) are usually all too happy to get terrabytes of ESI to justify exorbitant review costs.
I have done some research into attorney review platforms that can be used in-house and I’m curious if you have any experience with any of those. As it’s an emerging product space, there are wide gaps in offerings and costs and I’m looking to narrow the field down by leveraging others’ experiences.
Thanks for your posts!
How does one subscribe to your blog? You are dead on. With being in the industry, I enjoy hearing others views to validate what I have learned thus far. Keep these coming. Have a great and most successful day.
Ralph, thank you for the insight and resource of your blog. I wonder if you would consider setting up and RSS feed (strictly for the ease of your readers)?
Be well,
Amy
Ralph,
Your blog represents the depth of your understanding of e-discovery on the whole.
What is more important is to make sense to the reader. I am new to e discovery and did derive immense knowledge and pleasure by reading your article.
Great job!
regards
balaji
Nice job on the blog!
I am a records management expert credentialed in medical records (HIM or Health Information Management) and specialize in Legal Health Records and eDiscovery in healthcare. I live near Orlando (Titusville) and thought I should reach out and make a connection. A friend of mine Kim Baldwin-Stried Reich speaks highly of you. When you have a chance please e-mail me at the e-mail address I posted with this message. Thank you.
Do you have a web feed I can save? I searched around but couldn’t
Enjoy your blog. I am very experienced in complex litigation/e-discovery work and I must note that I have not yet seen a discussion of the best ways to properly prepare a client for all the tech supprt necessary to actually conduct the large scale doc review (# 6) above. This process requires hiring from 30 – 100 + attorneys to work 60+ hours a week for months on end on large scale projects. This is a very labor intensive and expensive phase of e-discovery. It has been my experience that the software programs/vendors/consultants/servers/internet pipelines etc. etc. are poorly chosen (cost) causing serious delays and cost over runs on many projects. I also note that so called service providers in this area often employ very junior and inexperienced people to serve as “techs” and ‘on-site trainers’ who are not really up to the task of servicing the daily needs of complex project workflow. I understand that clients make cost driven choices in these matters but they wind up paying far more in the end in excessive attorney hours and overtime because they don’t properly prepare for the review phase.
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Hello, I’m a fan of your work. I really enjoyed the fictionalized AI version of the case story about the chimney sweep boy in the case of Armory vs. Delamirie (1722). I used to read it to my students. It now appears to be protected by password. Is there a way to continue to access this content? How can I obtain the password?
WILL DO. One of my personal favorites.