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New Citators from vLex and Paxton Underscore That They Are The Holy Grail for Legal Research Companies

LawSites

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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Beauty Is In The AI Of The Beholder

Above The Law

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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Evaluating Generative AI for Legal Research: A Benchmarking Project

LLRX

So to test the abilities of these products, librarians can use prompt engineering to figure out how to get desired results (controlling statutes, key cases, drafts of a memo, etc.). It is difficult to test Large-Language Models (LLMs) without back-end access to run evaluations.

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vLex (Fastcase) Unveils Beta Version Of Its Global, Multi-Language Generative AI Legal Research Tool

LawSites

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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More Information on the ‘Quiet’ Launch of a New Legal Research Service by LexisNexis Parent RELX

LawSites

Recently, I reported here on the “quiet” launch of a new legal research service, Decisis , targeting bar associations and 1-2 lawyer law firms. With the acquisition, Fastcase became the sole legal research provider for the bar associations of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S.

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The Cheetah’s Out of the Bag: Wolters Kluwer Rebrands Its Legal Research Service and Adds Free Public Version

LawSites

The news is that Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory is rebranding its flagship Cheetah legal research platform on Monday as VitalLaw, a name that Ken Crutchfield , vice president and general manager of legal markets, told me better reflects the mission of the platform and better resonate with with customers. .

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What I Learned in Paralegal School vs On The Job

Paralegal Bootcamp

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.