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

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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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David v. Goliath Trial Begins this Month in Case that Challenges Thomson Reuter’s Longstanding Copyrights in Legal Research Materials

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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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Stanford Will Augment Its Study Finding that AI Legal Research Tools Hallucinate in 17% of Queries, As Some Raise Questions About the Results

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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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Wolters Kluwer Brings Gen AI To Its VitalLaw Legal Research Platform, to Answer Questions and More

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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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Paxton AI Releases Benchmarking Data Showing 94% Accuracy Of Its Legal Research Tool; Also Releases New ‘Confidence Indicator’ Feature

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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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Westlaw Precision: Next-Generation Legal Research With a Human Touch

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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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Wolters Kluwer introduces new GenAI functionality to VitalLaw legal research platform

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Wolters Kluwer today (26 September) announced the launch of generative AI (GenAI) functionality for VitalLaw, the company’s legal research platform.