Above the Law - Technology

MAY 28, 2024

Stanford University will augment the study it released last week of generative AI legal research tools from LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, in which it found that they deliver hallucinated results more often than the companies say, as others have raised questions about the study’s methodology and fairness.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Custom generative AI tools can enhance your legal research capabilities. The post From Books To Bytes: A Legal Research Showdown In The Age Of AI appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above the Law - Technology

MARCH 1, 2024

The post Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing? We’ve got all the angles covered in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast. appeared first on Above the Law.

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Clio

AUGUST 7, 2024

Free legal research tools used to be a dream. High-quality legal research is a necessity for all law firms—after all, finding the right precedent or statute could give you the edge to win your case. In the past, paid research platforms were the only choice. What is a legal research tool?

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A year after releasing Lexis+ AI, its generative AI legal research platform, to general availability, LexisNexis Legal & Professional today announced the release of a companion app for the U.S. market, the Lexis+ AI Mobile App, which is now available for download in both the Apple App Store and Google Play.

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Above the Law - Technology

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

eDiscovery Assistant , a legal research platform for e-discovery case law and resources, is today introducing AI-generated case law summaries. The feature uses ChatGPT to deliver one-paragraph summaries of court decisions, with the goal of enabling legal professionals to more quickly gauge the relevance and implications of a decision.

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Artificial Lawyer

JULY 17, 2024

We’ve heard about Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, and vLex providing genAI legal research tools, but Bloomberg Law wants in on this too. It has now enhanced.

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Above the Law - Technology

JUNE 22, 2023

A federal district judge has imposed monetary and other sanctions on the two lawyers who filed a brief laden with bogus cases they found when they relied on ChatGPT for legal research. The judge ordered the lawyers, Peter LoDuca and Steven A.

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Clio

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Legal research is one of the most challenging aspects of the legal profession. In the digital era, it is also a task that cannot be adequately performed without a legal search engine of some kind. The key to effective use of Google Scholar for legal research is knowing its strengths and limitations.

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LawSites

OCTOBER 15, 2024

descrybe.ai, a free legal research platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide enhanced access to the law, today rolled out a major upgrade that includes a redesign of its platform, more nuanced and accurate search results, summaries of judicial opinions in Spanish as well as English, and simplified, plain-language summaries in both English (..)

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Artificial Lawyer

APRIL 17, 2024

What can a law student with LLM skills achieve in terms of building well-liked legal tech products? Meet CaseSnappy, a legal research tool focused on case summaries and c… Quite a lot it would seem.

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Artificial Lawyer

JULY 10, 2024

In this week’s Product Walk Through, we take a tour of Midpage, a genAI-powered legal research tool that helps litigators perform in-depth case law research.

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LawSites

JULY 12, 2024

Citators — tools that validate whether a case or statute is still good law — have always been an essential component of a full-featured legal research platform. Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold […]

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Trellis.Law Blog

AUGUST 15, 2023

Maximum Lawyer Podcast: Streamline Your Legal Research with Nicole Clark first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog. Our CEO Nicole Clark shares her background as a business litigator and labor & employment attorney, who after dealing with the challenging task of accessing state court data, created Trellis Law.

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Artificial Lawyer

AUGUST 21, 2024

Amsterdam-based Moonlit, a genAI legal research platform, has spun out of Big Four firm Deloitte to go its own way and compete in the legal data market with a focus on the EU. It’s not the first le…

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Trellis.Law Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

As a law student, lawyer, or legal professional, legal research is a fundamental skill you need to master. Legal research is the process of finding relevant legal information to support legal arguments, advise clients, or make decisions.

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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.

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LLRX

MAY 29, 2024

Law Librarians and tech experts par excellence, Rebecca Fordon , Sean Harrington and Christine Park plan to propose a typology of legal research tasks based on existing computer and information science scholarship and draft corresponding questions using the typology, with rubrics others can use to score the tools they use.

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Legal IT Insiders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Wolters Kluwer today (26 September) announced the launch of generative AI (GenAI) functionality for VitalLaw, the company’s legal research platform.

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But crafting a winning legal argument requires a lot of research. Well-conducted legal research empowers your arguments and gives substance to your legal work, leading to a better outcome for your clients. To become a pro, you need to understand the tools available to you, and developing a research strategy.

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Trellis.Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Join us in the latest episode of Rethinking Legal Ops Podcast with our CEO Nicole Clark, as she dives deep into the world of legal technology and its transformative impact on the legal industry. In this episode, we explore: ?… first appeared on Trellis.Law Blog.

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LawSites

AUGUST 7, 2024

For decades, one product, Thomson Reuters Westlaw, has dominated the legal research market. A core foundation of that dominance has been Westlaw’s claims of copyright in several elements of its legal research service, particularly its headnotes and Key Number System.

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LLRX

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Is better case law data fueling a legal research boom? Recently, Rebecca Fordon noticed a surge of new and innovative legal research tools. Fordon wondered what could be fueling this increase, and set off to find out more.

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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? We went on multiple tests with ChatGPT for different legal operations, majorly legal research. Will ChatGPT replace Legal Research?

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Internet for Lawyers

JUNE 12, 2020

Learn About Free Internet Legal Research: Join us for a new CLE webinar, "Internet Legal Research on a Budget" on July 8, 2020. CLEwebinars.com is hosting a new webinar based on the the popular and newly updated book "Internet Legal Research on a Budget" on July 8, at 1:00 pm ET.

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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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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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LawSites

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Wolters Kluwer today brought generative AI to its VitalLaw legal research platform, launching new capabilities for users to locate and chat with legal information and get answers to legal questions, as well as to generate summaries and first drafts of compliance checklists or other key documents.

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Artificial Lawyer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Karnov Group, which is headquartered in Sweden and has bases in Denmark, Norway, France, Spain and Portugal, has launched KAILA (Karnov AI Legal Assistant),

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NSLT

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

But crafting a winning legal argument requires a lot of research. Well-conducted legal research empowers your arguments and gives substance to your legal work, leading to a better outcome for your clients. To become a pro, you need to understand the tools available to you, and developing a research strategy.

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LLRX

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

After that case, which resulted in a media frenzy and (somewhat mild) court sanctions, many attorneys are wary of using generative AI for legal research. And some legal tasks are less affected by hallucinations. But vendors are working to limit hallucinations and increase trust.

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Internet for Lawyers

JUNE 16, 2020

New ABA book shows lawyers alternatives to expensive legal research databases Just published by the American Bar Association, " Internet Legal Research on a Budget: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Lawyers, Second Edition " by Judy Davis and Carole Levitt directs lawyers to useful and reliable databases and explains how to use them effectively. (..)

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LLRX

APRIL 24, 2021

In his review Jerry Lawson recommends Internet Legal Research on a Budget: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Lawyers, 2nd Edition as the single best resource he knows for lawyers interested in exploring how to cut legal research expenses by trying and using free or inexpensive legal information.

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Legal Tech Monitor

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Legal technologists and industry observers agree that generative AI will significantly enhance legal research capabilities, provided that these breakthrough tools are developed and used responsibly. Why is legal research a primary use case for generative AI?

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Legal IT Professionals

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Qura, an AI-driven legal research platform, has spent the last year gathering hundreds of legal sources and building a sophisticated search engine designed to significantly reduce research time for lawyers while expanding access to a broader range of legal materials.

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Legal IT Insiders

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Global legal intelligence company vLex today (17 October) launched a major upgrade to its AI legal research assistant Vincent AI, namely a suite of large language model tools that enable users to … vLex releases suite of global LLM legal research tools in beta Read More » The post vLex releases suite of global LLM legal research tools in (..)

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LawSites

JANUARY 17, 2022

The legal research company Casetext has raised $25 million in a Series C funding round, bringing its total amount raised to $64.3 “We have found attorneys doing legal research on Parallel Search save 11.5 Related: LawNext: Casetext’s Founders on their Quest to Make Legal Research Affordable.

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