Law Sites

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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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

In a significant ruling for legal publishing and AI development, a federal judge has granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters in its long-running copyright infringement lawsuit against ROSS Intelligence, finding that ROSS infringed on Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes and rejecting ROSS’s fair use defense.

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Law Sites

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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Law Sites

APRIL 9, 2024

Furthering its expansion beyond legal research and into other products aligned with legal professionals’ day-to-day workflows, Bloomberg Law has acquired Dashboard Legal , a project management and collaboration platform specifically designed for the legal market. ” .” ”

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Law Sites

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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Law Sites

JUNE 4, 2024

Last week, I reported here that researchers at Stanford University planned to augment a study they released 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 in their marketing of the products.

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Law Sites

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A federal judge in Delaware has dismissed the claim by now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence that Thomson Reuters violated federal antitrust law by unlawfully tying its search tool to its public law database in order to maintain its dominance in the overall market for legal search platforms.

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Law Sites

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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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

How do AI-driven legal research platforms specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions stack up against each other? That was the question at a Feb.

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Law Sites

JUNE 4, 2024

Last September, two litigation-focused Canadian legal technology companies, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of combining CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI technology to create an integrated legal research and drafting solution.

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Law Sites

AUGUST 22, 2024

ROSS Intelligence, in which TR is alleging that the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS violated its copyrights by stealing content from Westlaw to build its own product. As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v.

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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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Law Sites

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

My 2019 post detailed my visit to ROSS’s Toronto research and development office. But ROSS’s trajectory changed in 2020, when legal research giant Thomson Reuters filed a lawsuit against ROSS , alleging that it stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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Law Sites

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Following on the heels of its $11 million Series A raise last June, Alexi, a company that uses generative AI to produce detailed legal research memos for litigators, today announced a significant expansion of its platform with new tools for case management, document analysis and summarization, and more.

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Law Sites

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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Legal IT Insider

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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Law Sites

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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Law Sites

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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Law Sites

MARCH 7, 2024

The project initially received financial support from legal research startup Ravel Law. The 20 Most Important Legal Technology Developments of 2018. New Legal Research Tool Taps Into Caselaw Access Project’s 6.7M It was a massive project that scanned 38.6 The goal was to make all published U.S.

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Law Sites

MARCH 14, 2024

.” Based on this, the committee found that Neusom had not only failed to exercise the reasonable due diligence required of an attorney, but that his conduct went “beyond a lack of due diligence as some of his legal authorities were completely fabricated.”

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Law Sites

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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Attorney at Work

JANUARY 13, 2022

In fact, most lawyers already use AI daily in both their personal lives — via tools like Google and smartphone Face ID — and in their professional lives for tasks like legal research. Such fears often stem from a lack of education. Also, some people who were exposed to early AI tools at work had off-putting experiences.

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Law Sites

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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Law Sites

APRIL 11, 2024

ROSS was ahead of its time in striving to use artificial intelligence to empower legal research. But the outlook for ROSS changed almost overnight when it was sued by Thomson Reuters in 2020 on allegations that it surreptitiously stole content from Westlaw to build its own competing legal research product.

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MyCase

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Whether you’re brand new to practicing law or a seasoned pro, effective legal research is one of the cornerstones of being a successful lawyer. Throughout your career, legal research skills can help you stay abreast of evolving precedent. What is Legal Research? Why is Effective Legal Research Important?

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Attorney at Work

MARCH 1, 2022

” Please don’t display your … proclivities when you’re trying to teach us about legal research. .” But I am concerned about the — let’s call it a sculpture — between “Taxonomies of Beadwork Fasteners” and “Pokemon Go! Field Guide 2019.” I can’t pixel out your life choices. Wild Zoom Background Fails.

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CaseFox

JULY 16, 2023

Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the legal research at your fingertips? If, as a lawyer or a legal professional. You are always looking for tools or ways to make your legal research process efficient. Today in this blog we are going to talk about top 9 free legal research tools for lawyers.

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, we tend to overlook that legal research forms the fundamental basis of practicing law. A lawyer with excellent legal research skills can build a strong case and is usually more successful in the legal world. To become a pro in the field, lawyers will need to understand how to do law research.

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CaseFox

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, we tend to overlook that legal research forms the fundamental basis of practicing law. A lawyer with excellent legal research skills can build a strong case and is usually more successful in the legal world. To become a pro in the field, lawyers will need to understand how to do law research.

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Law Sites

JUNE 28, 2024

On today’s live Legaltech Week, we’ll be talking toilet paper — and what it signifies for life and legal tech. Also on the agenda: stories about legal ethics and AI, AI risk in legal research, surging billing rates, and more. The show is live at 3 p.m.

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Lawmatics

JANUARY 23, 2024

Legal research: AI assists legal professionals in conducting comprehensive legal research. Advanced algorithms can quickly analyze vast legal information databases, statutes, and case law to provide relevant and up-to-date information. How Will AI Change the Legal Industry?

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CaseFox

APRIL 10, 2023

Harvey is a legal AI startup that was founded in 2015 by a team of lawyers and computer scientists. Its main goal is to use AI technology to help lawyers perform legal research and discovery faster and more accurately than ever before. Why is OpenAI Invested in Harvey?

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E-Discovery Team

AUGUST 23, 2024

Bloomberg surveyed lawyers and found that 57% used generative AI for Legal Research. Drafting and templating communication came in at 46%, and legal contracts at 26%. Summarizing legal narratives and reviewing legal documents followed at 24% and 22% respectively.

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Attorney at Work

MAY 22, 2022

Here’s what you should expect if you’re shopping for legal-only shared office space. Some centers offer paralegal staff who can assist with everything from basic administrative tasks to legal research. Some services come at an additional fee, but it saves you the expense of hiring a full-time legal assistant.

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Attorney at Work

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There was no effective way to perform practical legal research on state trial court records. The problem, however, was that these insights were impossible to access, especially for attorneys at the state trial court level.

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Lawmatics

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Document Review AI-powered algorithms can quickly review and analyze large volumes of legal documents, contracts, and case law to obtain pertinent information, identify patterns, and flag potential issues. What are the challenges?

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My Shingle

APRIL 12, 2024

First up – a summary comparison of five gen AI platforms and their legal research… The post Some GenAI to Help Your New Law Firm appeared first on My Shingle. Are you interested in what generative Ai can do but haven’t had a chance to spend the time experimenting, or even sitting through an hour-long webinar?

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