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3 Geeks and A Law Blog
From Workflow to Innovation: Bloomberg Law Answers and AI Assistant with Bobby Puglia
This week we welcome Bobby Puglia, Chief Product Officer at Bloomberg Industry Group, to discuss Bloomberg Law’s latest generative AI-powered tools: Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant. Bobby provides an insightful look into how these tools are designed to revolutionize legal research by making it faster, more intuitive, and seamlessly integrated into users’...
Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
1/20/2025
Legal IT Insider
Bloomberg Law launches GenAI Answers and Assistant
Bloomberg Law has launched two new generative AI-powered features, Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant. Bloomberg Law Answers provides answers by drawing from a range of legal sources [...] The post Bloomberg Law launches GenAI Answers and Assistant appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
1/15/2025
LawSites
AI, Ethics, Essays and Scandals Ranked Among LawSites’ 40 Most Popular Legal Tech Stories of 2024
It says something about our collective attitude towards generative AI in legal that this blog’s most-read story of the year was about lawyers getting sanctioned for hallucinated case citations. In fact, it will probably not surprise you to learn that, of my 40 most-read stories of the year, 24 involved generative AI in some way....
Bob Ambrogi
12/23/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
How Legal Research And Analytics Changed in 2024
New and improved offerings from Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis, startup expansions, a public access project, and more.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
12/20/2024
LawSites
Lexis Releases Mobile App for Its Lexis+ AI Legal Research Platform
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. The app is intended...
Bob Ambrogi
11/20/2024
LawSites
Major Canadian Legal Research Service Sues AI Startup Claiming Wrongful Use of Its Court Decisions
The Canadian Legal Information Institute, a nonprofit organization that is a major provider of free legal research in Canada, has sued a recently launched AI-powered legal research site called Caseway, alleging that it has unlawfully taken CanLII’s cases in order to build its own system. But the founder of Caseway, Alistair Vigier, says the allegations...
Bob Ambrogi
11/8/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Law Firms, Legal Research Companies Collaborate With Vals AI on Gen AI Benchmarking Study
Working with Reed Smith, Fisher Phillips, Thomson Reuters, Harvey, vLex, and LexisNexis, among others, Vals AI will evaluate gen AI platforms on their accuracy and performance.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
10/17/2024
LawSites
Free Legal Research Platform descrybe.ai Rolls Out Major Upgrade, Including Spanish Search and Simplified Summaries
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 and Spanish....
Bob Ambrogi
10/15/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
What the Rumored Harvey and vLex Deal Says About Today's Legal Research Market
Earlier this year, reports that Harvey was seeking to acquire vLex circulated in the industry. Sources close to the deal said the loose talks eventually fell through—likely for a handful of reasons.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
10/14/2024
LawSites
Federal Court Dismisses ROSS Intelligence’s Remaining Antitrust Claim Against Thomson Reuters
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. The ruling brings an end to ROSS’s...
Bob Ambrogi
9/30/2024
Legal IT Insider
Wolters Kluwer introduces new GenAI functionality to VitalLaw legal research platform
Wolters Kluwer today (26 September) announced the launch of generative AI (GenAI) functionality for VitalLaw, the company’s legal research platform. VitalLaw AI will be leveraged across Wolters Kluwer’s 25 practice [...] The post Wolters Kluwer introduces new GenAI functionality to VitalLaw legal research platform appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
9/26/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Wolters Kluwer Adds Generative AI Feature to Its Legal Research Platform VitalLaw
Wolters Kluwer’s VitalLaw AI provides enhanced search and summarized capabilities for legal professionals in the regulatory space.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
9/26/2024
LawSites
Wolters Kluwer Brings Gen AI To Its VitalLaw Legal Research Platform, to Answer Questions and More
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. This development combines these generative AI capabilities with the...
Bob Ambrogi
9/26/2024
Sui Generis
Beyond Simple Tools: vLex’s Vincent AI and the Future of Trusted Legal AI Platforms
Here is my recent Daily Record column. My past Daily Record articles can be accessed here. **** Beyond Simple Tools: vLex’s Vincent AI and the Future of Trusted Legal AI Platforms There has been a noticeable shift in the way that legal technology companies are approaching generative artificial intelligence (AI) product development. Last year, several general legal assistant chatbots...
Nicole Black
9/17/2024
Dewey B Strategic
vLex Vincent AI Upgrade: 12 Skills, 12 Countries + the EU, Transactional Skills and VIDA AI for Dockets
vLex  (Fastcase) is releasing a major upgrade to Vincent AI. This new release increases the number of workflows from 4 to 12. This includes expansion of both litigation and transactional tools and the addition of AI tools for additional jurisdictions including France Portugal and Brazil. vLex is the first generative AI platform to receive the...
Jean O'Grady
9/12/2024
Legal IT Insider
vLex unveils major upgrade to research assistant Vincent AI
Global legal intelligence company vLex today (12 September) released a major upgrade to its AI research assistant Vincent AI, which is now capable of transactional as well as litigation-based tasks. [...] The post vLex unveils major upgrade to research assistant Vincent AI appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
9/12/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Major vLex Upgrade Expands Vincent AI Platform to Include Transactional Workflows, New Countries
The “Autumn ’24” release from vLex adds transactional and drafting workflows to vLex’s traditional litigation and research capabilities, plus new Docket Alarm AI capabilities and AI tools for France, Portugal and Brazil. But beyond new skills, “Vincent AI is now a platform,” vLex Global Head of Product Robin Chesterman said.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
9/12/2024
LawSites
As It Unveils Major Upgrade of Its Vincent AI, vLex May Now Be the Most Capable AI Assistant in the Legal Market
Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex is releasing a major upgrade to its Vincent AI that puts it firmly in the running for that honor. I might be even more...
Bob Ambrogi
9/12/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Singapore's Flagship Legal Research Portal Gets AI Boost
The government-backed upgraded legal research tool, LawNet AI, contains a huge repository of content and is designed to help lawyers in the city-state do research more efficiently.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
9/12/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
vLex’s Autumn ’24 Update: Show and Tell with Ed Walters
This week we talk with Ed Walters from VLex to explore the Autumn 2024 release of VLex’s Vincent AI platform. Ed discusses a series of transformative updates that are turning Vincent AI from a legal research tool into a comprehensive platform that integrates drafting, transactional, and research tasks. These updates include new workflow tools, redlining...
Greg Lambert
9/11/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Spun Off From Deloitte, Moonlit Launches Legal Research Platform for EU Case Law
Developed internally by the artificial intelligence lead at Deloitte Netherlands, Moonlit looks to help users track, compare and contrast the interpretation of EU directives across individual member states.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
8/23/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Legaltech Rundown: Judge Delays Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Trial, Harvey Updates Assistant and More
An update on the legal tech market’s past week, from product launches to new partnerships.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
8/23/2024
LawSites
Breaking: Continuance Ordered On Eve of Trial In Thomas Reuters Lawsuit Against ROSS Intelligence
As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. 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. But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd...
Bob Ambrogi
8/22/2024
LawSites
David v. Goliath Trial Begins this Month in Case that Challenges Thomson Reuter’s Longstanding Copyrights in Legal Research Materials
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. The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the...
Bob Ambrogi
8/7/2024
LawSites
Paxton AI Releases Benchmarking Data Showing 94% Accuracy Of Its Legal Research Tool; Also Releases New ‘Confidence Indicator’ Feature
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.  Paxton also today released a new Confidence Indicator feature that will...
Bob Ambrogi
7/30/2024
LawSites
New Citators from vLex and Paxton Underscore That They Are The Holy Grail for Legal Research Companies
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. But in this age of AI-generated hallucinations, they may be more important than ever before. Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold...
Bob Ambrogi
7/12/2024
Dewey B Strategic
Generative AI Risk in Legal Research: Is the Fault in the Technology or in Ourselves? Answer is Both
Will Generative AI awaken the need for serious focus legal research education? The introduction of Generative AI to the practice of law has been anything but smooth. First there was the unfortunate case of Mr. Schwartz who used Chat GPT-3 to write a brief complete with hallucinated cases which he submitted to a federal  court...
Jean O'Grady
7/1/2024
Dewey B Strategic
Breaking Rumor: Harvey Seeking to Buy vLex? A Move for Global Dominance?
It was only a year ago that the US based Fastcase was merged with a European legal information and technology company vLex. In what I have to assume is a move to compete with Casetext and Lexis + AI, Harvey would be positioning itself to take on the Generative AI strategies of Thomson Reuters and...
Jean O'Grady
6/11/2024
TechLaw Crossroads
vLex and iManage Partner to Maximize Customer Past Efforts: But User Process is Key
There’s gold in them thar hills. Mark Twain in 1892 novel The American Claimant Almost every law firm has a great wealth of documents and knowledge locked up in work they have previously done in cases and matters. If only they could find it. The problem, as I have discussed before, is that lawyers don’t want to...
Stephen Embry
6/10/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Updated Stanford Report Finds High Hallucination Rates on Westlaw AI
Thomson Reuters said that their internal testing showed a lower hallucination rate compared to the study, and welcomed the opportunity to work with Stanford to explore creating AI benchmarks.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
6/4/2024
LawSites
In Redo of Its Study, Stanford Finds Westlaw’s AI Hallucinates At Double the Rate of LexisNexis
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. The study came under criticism for...
Bob Ambrogi
6/4/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Legal AI Under the Microscope: Stanford HAI’s In-Depth Analysis of Lexis and Westlaw AI Tools
Reflections on the Stanford HAI Report on Legal AI Research Tools The updated paper from the Stanford HAI team presents rigorous and insightful research into the performance of generative AI tools for legal research. The complexity of legal research is well-acknowledged, and this study looks into the capabilities and limitations of AI-driven legal research tools...
Greg Lambert
5/31/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
The Real Issue Beyond the Stanford Study's Gaffes: Where Are Legal Tech's Benchmarks?
Stanford’s study assessing gen AI-powered legal research tools received pushback from the industry for flawed methodology. But the real issue may lie within the lack of transparency from legal tech providers into how exactly their tools work.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
5/29/2024
Docket Alarm Blog
Partnership between iManage and vLex Brings Together the World’s Largest Legal Intelligence Platform with the Industry’s Leading Knowledge Work Platform
Mutual customers can leverage the power of Vincent AI to add powerful Generative AI workflows, research, and analysis. Chicago and Miami (May 29, 2024), iManage, the company dedicated to Making Knowledge Work™, and vLex, a leading global legal intelligence platform, today jointly announced a new partnership which will see a number of secure and robust integrations enhancing the...
Staff
5/29/2024
LawSites
Stanford Will Augment Its Study Finding that AI Legal Research Tools Hallucinate in 17% of Queries, As Some Raise Questions About the Results
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. The preprint study by Stanford’s RegLab and its...
Bob Ambrogi
5/28/2024
LawSites
On LawNext: How The Free Law Project Works to Expand Access to Legal Information, with Cofounder Michael Lissner
Since 2010, the nonprofit Free Law Project has been working to make the legal ecosystem more equitable and competitive using technology, data and advocacy. It may be best known for CourtListener, its flagship project that houses an immense collection of court orders and opinions, and for its RECAP suite, which is the largest free collection...
Bob Ambrogi
5/22/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
LexisNexis Announces Gen AI-Powered Corporate Research Capabilities Nexis+AI
Nexis+AI is for now in commercial preview with a group of corporations with plans for a general release later this year.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
4/24/2024
LawSites
True To Its Name, LexisNexis Unveils New AI Capabilities For Both Its Lexis Legal Service and Its Nexis News Service
In a pair of AI announcements this week, LexisNexis said that it has significantly enhanced the speed and capabilities of its Lexis+ AI legal AI Assistant, and also that it has launched the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI within its Nexis news and business information research service. LexisNexis first released Lexis+ AI for general availability...
Bob Ambrogi
4/24/2024
Legal IT Insider
Lexis announces the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI for corporate research 
LexisNexis Legal & Professional today (23 April) announced that it is running a commercial preview of Nexis+ AI, which leverages generative AI to ‘supercharge’ company and market research. Lexis delivers business intelligence [...] The post Lexis announces the commercial preview of Nexis+ AI for corporate research  appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Caroline Hill - Editor-in-Chief
4/23/2024
Above the Law Tech News
Lexis+ AI Announces New Generation As The AI Arms Race Continues
You get an AI legal assistant! And you get an AI legal assistant! The post Lexis+ AI Announces New Generation As The AI Arms Race Continues appeared first on Above the Law.
Joe Patrice
4/23/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
LexisNexis Announces Second Generation AI Assistant on Lexis+ AI With Expanded Capabilities, Performance
With its latest version, coming early next month, the AI assistant will be able to handle more prompts and documents and respond to users faster.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
4/23/2024
Dewey B Strategic
LexisNexis Launches 2nd Gen Legal AI Assistant on Lexis+ AI
Today LexisNexis Legal & Professional®,  is unveiling its second-generation legal generative AI Assistant on  the Lexis+ AI platform. The new AI Assistant was developed based on user feedback. And now offers a more personalized experience All existing Lexis+ AI customers will have access to the enhanced AI Assistant. The AI Assistant features enables conversational search,...
Jean O'Grady
4/23/2024