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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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Attorney at Work

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Thomson Reuters has launched Westlaw Precision, its most dramatic update to the Westlaw research platform since Westlaw Edge in 2018. For this new version, Westlaw tackled the underlying issues that slow down legal research — namely lack of precision in search results, which leads to extra hours reviewing cases that aren’t relevant.

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Law Sites

JUNE 2, 2025

But well before Casetext was acquired, and well before it introduced CoCounsel as one of the very first legal AI assistants to […] Earlier today, I wrote about the latest iteration of CoCounsel, the AI product originally developed by Casetext before it was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023 for a whopping $650 million in cash.

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Law Sites

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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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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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

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.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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

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

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Recently, I wrote here about the AI Smackdown presented at a Feb. 8 meeting of theSouthern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms Lexis+AI, Westlaw Precision AI, and vLexs Vincent AI. Having been playing around of […]

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Law Sites

MARCH 3, 2025

In yet another case involving the use and misuse of generative AI in legal research, a federal district court judge has declined to impose sanctions on an experienced attorney who submitted a brief containing miscited and misquoted cases generated by artificial intelligence. Although the attorney, Thad M.

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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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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 10, 2025

For the second time in the long and winding road of the copyright lawsuit brought by Thomson Reuters against the now-shuttered legal research startup ROSS Intelligence, the trial has been postponed on the eve of its start date.

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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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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

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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WA Bar News

JUNE 12, 2025

STEPHEN In law school, you probably learned how to find both state and federal law in your legal research and writing classes. 11 They can also “effectively address legal issues in Indian Country and contribute to a more inclusive legal system.” The research guide suggests several secondary sources. by Matthew L.

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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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WA Bar News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The merged company vLex Fastcase is preparing to launch a new interface that includes an editorial citator called Cert BY ED WALTERS The Washington State Bar Association has partnered with Fastcase since 2019 to offer complimentary legal research to its members. The process for logging in to the research benefit will not change.

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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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