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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
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
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
LawSites
On Today’s Legaltech Week: Special Guest Jake Heller, Casetext CoFounder, Joins to Discuss the Latest CoCounsel News
Live today on Legaltech Week, the panel will be joined by special guest Jake Heller, cofounder of Casetext and now head of product, CoCounsel, at Thomson Reuters, to discuss the news announced earlier this week that Thomson Reuters will deploy the CoCounsel AI assistant as a single app across its entire portfolio of products spanning...
Bob Ambrogi
4/19/2024
Dewey B Strategic
 vLex Expands Vincent GenAI Toolset, and Launches AI-Focused Co-Development Lab 
Today vLex  is announcing the launch of a powerful suite of generative AI-backed document analysis tools for litigators and transactional attorneys  Vincent AI platform.  vLex occupies a unique space in the legal research and workflow space since it is the only truly multi-national research platform which has now expanded into an AI enabled Vincent AI...
Jean O'Grady
4/16/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Vlex Pushes Legal Tech Boundaries with New Features and Top Talent
Our friend Damien Riehl stopped by to talk with Marlene Gebauer about two big happenings at vLex. Riehl unveiled exciting advancements in vLex’s AI-powered legal research platform and shed light on vLex’s commitment to streamlining legal workflows and reducing the need for extensive prompt engineering. One of the major developments is the enhanced document analysis...
Greg Lambert
4/16/2024
LawSites
On LawNext: The Inside Story of the Caselaw Access Project, with Three of the People Who Made It Happen
March 1 marked the culmination of an ambitious and audacious project to digitize and provide free and open access to all official court decisions ever published in the United States. Called the Caselaw Access Project, it came about, starting in 2015, through an unusual partnership between Harvard Law School and a Silicon Valley-based legal research startup called Ravel...
Bob Ambrogi
3/26/2024
LawSites
Guest Post: The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow
On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a tractor-trailer determined to occupy my lane. I hit the brakes. The truck kept rolling. Its wheels pressed into my car as it wedged me against the curb and carved a tail-to-nose dent in my...
Adam Ziegler
3/18/2024
Legal IT Insider
descrybe.ai aims to disrupt legal research with 2.5m searchable & summarised US judicial opinions (for free)
Justice tech startup descrybe.ai has announced the completion of a year-long effort to summarise and make searchable all available state supreme and appellate judicial opinions from US state courts. Co-founder [...] The post descrybe.ai aims to disrupt legal research with 2.5m searchable & summarised US judicial opinions (for free) appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Emma Griffiths
3/14/2024
LawSites
Free Legal Research Startup descrybe.ai Now Has AI Summaries of All State Supreme and Appellate Opinions
descrybe.ai, a year-old legal research startup focused on using artificial intelligence to provide free and easy access to court opinions, has completed its goal of creating AI-generated summaries of all available state supreme and appellate court opinions from throughout the United States. descrybe.ai describes its mission as democratizing access to legal information and leveling the...
Bob Ambrogi
3/14/2024
Legal IT Insider
Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Core formally launched in the UK
Thomson Reuters today (12 March) formally announced the UK launch of its generative AI legal assistant, CoCounsel Core. This follows launches in Canada, Australia, and the United States. The global [...] The post Thomson Reuters CoCounsel Core formally launched in the UK appeared first on Legal IT Insider.
Emma Griffiths
3/12/2024
LawSites
The UK Gets Access To Thomson Reuters’ Gen AI Product CoCounsel Core and Soon To Its AI-Assisted Research on Westlaw Edge
Thomson Reuters today brings its generative AI legal assistant CoCounsel Core to the United Kingdom, following its initial rollout in the United States and expansion last month into Australia and Canada. The company also said that its AI-Assisted Research product, launched in November within Westlaw Edge for the U.S., would be available on Westlaw Edge...
Bob Ambrogi
3/12/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Thomson Reuters Launches Legal AI Assistant CoCounsel Core in the UK
At least two U.K. firms are already using Thomson Reuters’ legal AI assistant, which it acquired in 2023 through its purchase of legal research company Casetext.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
3/12/2024
Dewey B Strategic
Why Are we Paying for That?  10 Tips and Techniques for Taming a Library Budget and Optimizing ROI
Law library budgets can easily grow wild like sprawling and untamed gardens. In the past, law librarians could be managing literally thousands of print titles spread across dozens of locations. The pandemic accelerated the full embrace of digital alternatives to print. Today many law firm libraries have small print collections but a large and complex...
Jean O'Grady
3/8/2024
LawSites
Event Tomorrow Marks the End of Commercial Restrictions on the Caselaw Access Project that Digitized All U.S. Case Law
Back in 2018, something remarkable happened. The Caselaw Access Project, part of Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab, completed its three-year project to digitize all U.S. case law — some 6.4 million cases dating all the way back to 1658, a span of 360 years.  It was a massive project that scanned 38.6 million pages from 39,796...
Bob Ambrogi
3/7/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Colorado Appellate Courts Launch Website to Search Case Law Dating Back to 1860s
“This new website, offering free and easy access to every opinion by both of Colorado’s appellate courts, provides anybody with important information as they make decisions about their own legal matters or simply seek to study the law,” Supreme Court Chief Justice Brian D. Boatright said in a statement.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
3/6/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Innovators of the Year (Individual), Provider: Jake Heller & Pablo Arredondo, Casetext
“We knew we had one shot. And that if we didn’t do it, no one would, not this quickly,” said Pablo Arredondo, Chief Innovation Officer and Co-Founder of Casetext, now part of Thomson Reuters.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
3/5/2024
Above the Law Tech News
Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing?
We’ve got all the angles covered in this episode of the Non-Eventcast podcast. The post Cheat Code: How Will AI Affect Legal Research & Writing? appeared first on Above the Law.
jared correia
3/1/2024
3 Geeks and A Law Blog
Pablo Arredondo on the One-Year Anniversary of CoCounsel
In this episode of “The Geek in Review,” hosts Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer celebrate the one-year anniversary of CoCounsel, the pioneering Generative AI Legal Research Tool launched by CaseText. They are joined by Pablo Arredondo, Vice President of CoCounsel at Thomson Reuters and co-founder of CaseText, to discuss the significant strides and challenges faced...
Greg Lambert and Marlene Gebauer
2/29/2024
LawSites
LawNext: Thomson Reuters’ AI Strategy for Legal, with Mike Dahn, Head of Westlaw, and Joel Hron, Head of AI
On this episode of LawNext: A conversation about Thomson Reuters’ strategy around generative artificial intelligence with two of the executives most directly responsible for its development and implementation.  In a year dominated by discussion of generative AI and its potential impact on the legal profession, Thomson Reuters has played a leading role. It started in...
Bob Ambrogi
2/28/2024
LawSites
As Thomson Reuters Expands Casetext CoCounsel, the AI Legal Assistant, to Canada and Australia, It Provides Details on U.S. Growth
Still less than a year since it launched, CoCounsel, the generative AI legal assistant originally developed by Casetext, has had quite a year. Now, as it expands into new markets, we get details on its adoption to date. It was March 1, 2023, that Casetext launched CoCounsel, a product developed in partnership with OpenAI that...
Bob Ambrogi
2/20/2024
Law.com's Legaltech News
Thomson Reuters Expands CoCounsel Core to Canada and Australia
Following its US launch in November 2023, Thomson Reuters is rolling out the CoCounsel Core generative AI legal assistant to its first two English-speaking international markets.
Law.com's Legal Tech News
2/20/2024
Dewey B Strategic
TR Announces New Vision for Generative AI Assistant Called  “CoCounsel” with Slick Video and New AI Survey
Today Thomson Reuters is announcing a new Generative AI vision. Central to this vision is a new Generative AI Assistant branded as CoCounsel. There was no press conference and no demo to provide context or a Q&A around this announcement. Here is a link to the press release so you can read it for yourself....
Jean O'Grady
4/17/2024