LawSites

OCTOBER 17, 2023

When the legal research companies vLex and Fastcase announced their merger in April , they promised the deal would fuel new opportunities for the development of generative AI for legal research. “The combined library is the crown jewel of LLMs and the ultimate training data set for legal AI.”

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Kevin O'Keefe

OCTOBER 18, 2023

I had the good fortune to sit down with Ed Walters , Chief Strategy Officer of vLex , earlier in the week to hear about the launch of a generative AI legal research platform by vLex, following its merger with Fastcase. Build an Argument: Constructs memos supporting or refuting a particular legal argument.

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CaseFox

MARCH 3, 2023

Legal professionals are often assumed to be tech lays. The big question is, will this new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tech make legal researchers obsolete? I am not sure how well and deep ChatGPT can read and understand documents. Will ChatGPT replace Legal Research? The answer may be yes or a delayed NO.

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Above the Law - Technology

MAY 11, 2023

The Ask Legal app can be used in Chat mode, whereby an employee asks a question and the app attempts to answer it, with the answer generated from the company’s internal policies and guidelines. The app can also be used in Request mode to submit a request to the legal department, such as to prepare or review a contract.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It started in June, when the company announced its $650 million acquisition of the legal research and AI company Casetext and the CoCounsel generative AI tool Casetext had developed in collaboration with OpenAI. Soon after that, it rolled out generative AI within Practical Law , its legal know-how product.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

SixFifty, a company that helps businesses automate employment law compliance and documentation, today released the first phase of its Employment Law Informatics Project (ELIP), an effort to catalog, summarize, and encode the logic of every employment law in the United States, to enhance both academic legal research and practical business use.

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Clio

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Conducting legal research With its capacity to search legal databases and research, ChatGPT Search can assist with various legal research tasks, including researching legal developments, locating relevant case law, and more.

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Legal IT Insiders

APRIL 22, 2024

Global online legal research provider vLex last week launched a suite of generative AI-backed document analysis tools for litigation and transactional practitioners as in other news, AI startups Patlytics and […] The post Legaltech latest: vLex unveils new gen AI tools + Labs as Patlytics and LawHive raise millions in seed funding appeared first (..)

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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw Precision, its most dramatic update to the Westlaw research platform since Westlaw Edge in 2018. For this new version, Westlaw tackled the underlying issues that slow down legal research — namely lack of precision in search results, which leads to extra hours reviewing cases that aren’t relevant.

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Above the Law - Technology

JANUARY 3, 2024

BriefCatch BriefCatch empowers lawyers and judges to edit legal documents to the highest standards while helping their clients win, boosting their writing skills, and enjoying expert explanations, models, and examples. Ai.Law Ai.Law provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery.

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Above the Law - Technology

APRIL 25, 2023

It was major news April 4 when the legal research and technology companies Fastcase and vLex announced their merger, creating a single entity that they say now has the world’s largest subscriber base of lawyers and law firms and a legal research library of more than 1 billion documents from more than 100 countries.

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Eric Goldman

MAY 31, 2024

Microsoft’s filings made some unredacted disclosures about Medina that were repeated in an unredacted court opinion, and those documents appeared on several websites that publish court documents. He then sued the court document repository websites (and other defendants) for defamation, false advertising, and more.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Oakley Capital, a major European private equity investor, has acquired majority ownership of vLex , the international legal research platform. vLex is unique among legal research services for its breadth of international coverage. See: Vincent Joins CARA, EVA and Clerk as the Latest AI-Driven Research Assistant. .

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Kevin O'Keefe

JANUARY 7, 2024

It can provide guidance on basic legal questions, help with court forms, and offer directions on presenting cases to judges. Efficiency in Legal Processes : The introduction of AI in legal can lead to a more efficient handling of cases. This indicates its utility in supporting legal research and education.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 15, 2023

2013 New Legal Research Site Combines Case Law with Crowdsourcing. 2014 Two Sites Offer Platforms for Crowdsourced Legal Research. 2017 Legal Research Company Casetext Closes on $12 Million in Funding. Casetext Expands Its CARA Research Assistant, Adding Suggestions Of Relevant Briefs.

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Clio

JANUARY 29, 2025

Legal is outpacing other industries when it comes to adopting AI; whether it is document drafting, client communications, or legal research, we are seeing lawyers realize the value of AI in a concrete way, further reaffirming that if you don’t embrace AI, you’re at a fundamental, competitive disadvantage.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

He became interested in the future of legal education and how artificial intelligence will affect the profession, which led him to co-found Blue J , a legal technology company in Toronto. On the other hand, Abdi Aidid practiced as a commercial litigator in New York before becoming the Vice President of Legal Research at Blue J.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

. “Smokeball AI enhances functionality within its existing platform, optimizing workflows to help law firms expedite intake processes, search for legal answers, navigate through matter documents, draft correspondence, and provide tailored descriptions of work directly on invoices,” the company says.

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Above the Law - Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“We’re trying to solve a longstanding problem in the legal field, and that is that judges only write judicial opinions for 3% of rulings,” Ovbiagele said. ” He distinguished Bench IQ from legal analytics companies such as Lex Machina or Pre/Dicta. That’s the problem that we are solving with Bench IQ.”

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LawSites

JULY 30, 2024

With hallucinations continuing to haunt applications of generative AI in the legal field, Paxton AI, a startup for contract review, document drafting and legal research, today released results of a benchmarking study that showed its product achieved 93.82% average accuracy on legal research tasks.

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Dewey B Strategic

DECEMBER 10, 2023

On December 7, 2023 Wolters Kluwer released the following announcement : Legal & Regulatory division continues to redefine the landscape for legal professionals Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory (LR) today announced an innovative feature for legal professionals: Generative Pre-training Transformer (GPT)-generated summaries of court rulings.

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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Just four years after launching Westlaw Edge as its next-generation legal research platform, Thomson Reuters today unveiled the next-next generation. Tackling Tedious and Imprecise Research. A traditional search using that query brought up 285 documents. What does TR mean by more precise? The Precision Search template.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

JULY 3, 2023

Contrary to previous legal technologies, which had defined use cases, the extensive potential of generative AI presents complexity. Its capabilities ranged from assisting in drafting documents to not yet being fully independent in document reviews. Justis 10:39 Sure, Greg. So think about this.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 20, 2024

In its write-up, How Casetext is assigning every attorney an AI co-counsel , Fast Company says: “CoCounsel can generate — at a blazing speed — legal research memos, review thousands of documents to answer questions during discovery, and find specific contract items in vast databases of information.”

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LawSites

JUNE 7, 2022

Last year, I wrote here about the beta release by Casetext of a powerful search tool, WeSearch, developed using an emerging branch of artificial intelligence known as neural networks, that is remarkably adept at finding conceptually related documents, even when they contain no matching keywords. ” Neural Network Framework. .

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LawSites

MAY 29, 2024

Document management company iManage and legal research company vLex now have something else in common besides brand names that start with lower-case letters.

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Kevin O'Keefe

AUGUST 25, 2023

AI is already starting to assist in tasks like drafting documents, conducting legal research, and even predicting legal outcomes. The reporters cited, in detail, the legal AI startup Harvey, funded by OpenAI, as an example. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity for lawyers.

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Above the Law - Technology

DECEMBER 4, 2023

VoiceScript Ai.Law Elevator Pitch: Provides AI-generated litigation documents, from pleadings to discovery. We are the first AI-driven platform to focus specifically on drafting litigation documents. The substantial amount of time lawyers spend drafting documents during litigation. What makes you unique or innovative?

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Clio

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Enhancing professional skills Paralegals can utilize CLEs to boost their professional skills and their overall performance as a legal professional. A paralegal can also learn practical skills, such as legal research , document management , and trial preparation. Some of these skills will apply to distinct areas of law.

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LawSites

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Lawyers and legal professionals using the AI-powered document drafting tool Clearbrief to create a legal brief or document will now be able to seamlessly view any case law they cite thanks to a partnership with the legal research and intelligence company Fastcase , the companies announced today.

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Percipient

JANUARY 20, 2025

It can also help with legal research, finding relevant case laws or statutes quickly without endless hours of manual searching. Natural Language Processing (NLP) Natural language processing is what helps AI tools make sense of human language, even the complex and technical terms often used in legal documents.

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Justia Legal Marketing & Technology blog

MAY 9, 2024

As a small or solo firm, you could be using AI for things such as legal research, document review, e-discovery, and predictive analytics. After all, AI isn’t just used to generate content or images, it can be used for your business too!

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LawSites

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Oregon-based company offers AI-powered legal assistant tools for legal research, document […] The round was led by Unusual Ventures, with participation from Kyber Knight, 25Madison, and WVV Capital.

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LawSites

MARCH 1, 2023

“It creates a momentous opportunity for attorneys to delegate tasks like legal research, document review, and contract analysis to an AI, freeing them to focus on the most impactful aspects of their practice.” Review documents. Legal research memo. One skill I tested is reviewing documents.

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LawSites

APRIL 16, 2024

The global legal research company vLex today announced the launch of Vincent AI Document Analyze, a new tool in its suite of generative AI features that enables legal professionals to analyze litigation and transactional documents and surface legal and factual information that they can use in preparing a response.

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3 Geeks and a Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2023

She founded ClearBrief in 2020 to leverage AI to analyze documents and suggest relevant evidence and citations to streamline drafting. By uploading case documents and discovery materials, the AI can pull facts and quotes directly from the record to support legal arguments in the brief. Jacqueline Schafer 6:33 Yeah, absolutely.

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Trial Technology

MAY 31, 2023

Research assistance: ChatGPT can provide quick access to legal information and precedents, making it a valuable tool for lawyers conducting legal research. Lawyers may use ChatGPT to find relevant cases, statutes, or legal principles to support their arguments. Here are a few possibilities: 1.

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