Above The Law

JANUARY 12, 2024

Notes to my (legal) self. The post ChatGPT Is NOT A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law.

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Above The Law

JUNE 22, 2023

The post Do NOT, I Repeat, Do NOT Use ChatGPT For Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law. These chatbots are bald-faced liars that pull facts out of thin air.

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Above The Law

AUGUST 26, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. Read on to get the definitive guide to choosing a Gen AI legal research solution The post How To Choose The Right Legal Research Platform For Your AI Journey appeared first on Above the Law.

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LawSites

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

JANUARY 11, 2023

The post Law School Dean Wants ChatGPT Taught In Legal Research & Writing Classes appeared first on Above the Law. It's the way of the future for lawyers.

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For benchmarks to be valuable, they must test real-world problems that legal professionals face and measure what customers care about. The challenge is one-dimensional metrics do not offer a reliable representation of the real value of GenAI in the legal research process.

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Above The Law

JULY 23, 2024

The future of legal research is AI. The post The Definitive Guide To Choosing A Gen AI Legal Research Solution appeared first on Above the Law. Choose a platform that supports you on this journey, with the experience to guide you every step of the way.

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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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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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Above The Law

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

JANUARY 16, 2025

AI-Assisted Research serves as a force multiplier for legal professionals. The post Precision Meets AI: Thomson Reuters’ New Era Of Legal Research appeared first on Above the Law.

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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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OneLegal

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

By understanding the risks and benefits of generative AI, you can minimize unintended consequences that have troubled legal professionals. The post Generative AI in legal research: Opportunities, risks, and mitigation strategies appeared first on One Legal.

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LawSites

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Legal research startup Midpage has reached a critical threshold in its commercialization, its founder believes, as it achieves full data coverage of key U.S. case law and prepares to launch its own citator in the coming weeks.

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LawSites

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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Above The Law

APRIL 15, 2024

Optimal litigation research integrates all relevant sources for efficient results. The post 5 Things Litigators Should Look For In A Legal Research Tool appeared first on Above the Law. Finding all materials for similar cases spanning different systems is difficult, time-consuming, and frustrating.

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LawSites

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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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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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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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Elon Musk’s aimless cost-cutting escapades turn to the SEC where DOGE slashed their Westlaw access because no one over there is smart enough to know how legal research works. Apparently now is an opportune time to start committing securities fraud!

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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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ABA Journal

MARCH 25, 2024

A little over a year ago, ChatGPT-4 was released, and in that short time, the functionality of generative artificial intelligence has been added to many…

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Above The Law

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Download it below to learn: A detailed explanation of legal AI assistants The benefits a legal AI assistant can bring to your practice Specific use cases for litigation and transactions The importance of data security and privacy protections The post Gen AI: Your Legal Research Assistant, Not Your Replacement appeared first on Above the Law.

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Paralegal Bootcamp

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Legal Research and Writing In my first year of studying Paralegal Studies, my school provided us with Westlaw/LexisNexis (legal research software) that we used for legal research purposes. which provided me with a comprehensive understanding of the legal system and procedures.

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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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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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MARCH 24, 2025

eDiscovery Assistant Rebrands as Minerva26: A New Era of Strategic Discovery Begins The trusted legal research platform evolves into a strategic command center for discovery, equipping litigators with foresight, clarity, and control over ESI.

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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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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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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

It has been a while since I have written about the copyright lawsuit by legal research giant Thomson Reuters against the no-shuttered legal research startup Ross Intelligence, in which TR alleges that Ross stole copyright content from Westlaw to build its own completing legal research product.

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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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LawSites

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Once upon a time, in a magical city called San Francisco, three former lawyers came together to develop an innovative legal research platform, as an alternative to traditional legal research services such as Thomson Reuters Westlaw and LexisNexis. They called their new company Casetext.

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LawSites

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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Above The Law

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This new tool will change how you conduct legal research, offering a faster, more adaptable approach. The post Lexis+ AI: Generative AI Research That Cites Its Sources appeared first on Above the Law.

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LLRX

AUGUST 31, 2023

Articles and Columns for August 2023 The Case For Large Language Model Optimism in Legal Research From A Law & Technology Librarian – The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in legal research signifies a transformative shift.

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ABA Journal

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ari Kaplan recently spoke with Kelly Lake, the CEO and executive director for CEB: Continuing Education of the Bar, a California-focused provider of legal research…

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LawSites

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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