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Every knowledge manager in legal wants to find ways to separate the "dross" from the "gold", the "borsht" from the "beets", to provide the best information from the information and data available. Below are some new, fascinating and useful enhancements (first originating from the U.S. jurisdiction) that provide an overview of these new developments from Thomson Reuters. Mike Dahn describes this "filtration process" from AI resources like it is. I'll let him have the last word below! #legalai #legaltechnology #legalanalytics #legalpractice #legaleducation #ai

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How has the advent of digital databases and online resources transformed legal research practices? The legal profession has witnessed a remarkable transformation with the advent of digital databases and online resources. Gone are the days when lawyers and researchers relied solely on physical libraries and printed casebooks. Today, comprehensive legal databases like Westlaw, LexisNexis, and online repositories provide instant access to vast amounts of legal information, statutes, case law, and academic articles. This digital revolution has significantly streamlined the research process, making it faster, more efficient, and more accessible. Digital databases and online resources have not only improved the speed and efficiency of legal research but have also enhanced the accuracy and comprehensiveness of legal analysis. Advanced search functionalities allow researchers to pinpoint relevant cases and legal precedents with unprecedented precision. Moreover, the integration of AI and machine learning algorithms in these platforms offers predictive insights and trend analysis, empowering legal professionals to make more informed decisions and better anticipate legal outcomes. The accessibility of legal information has democratized the field, leveling the playing field for smaller law firms and solo practitioners who may not have had the resources to maintain extensive physical libraries. Online legal resources ensure that all legal professionals, regardless of their firm’s size or location, have equal access to up-to-date legal information. This democratization fosters a more equitable legal landscape, ultimately benefiting clients who receive more informed and timely legal advice. As the digital transformation continues to evolve, it is clear that the future of legal research lies in the continued integration of cutting-edge technology and online resources. #LegalResearch #DigitalTransformation #LegalTech #LawPractice #OnlineResources #AIinLaw #LegalInnovation #LegalIndustry #LegalProfession #FutureOfLaw #LawyerLife #LegalTools #LegalDatabases #EfficiencyInLaw #LegalTechTrends

The datafication of law is fundamentally changing our perspective. When legal texts are transformed into data, Legal Analytics enables the evaluation of patterns that can influence legal decisions. These methods could transform legal practice by not only questioning existing knowledge structures but also helping to prevent bias and discrimination.   We want to hear from you: What do you think are the impacts of Legal Analytics on legal practice and the role of legal science?   Share your thoughts and experiences in the comments! Let’s design the future of Legal together. 💬   #LegalTech #LegalAnalytics #Innovation

The collaboration between Harvey and OpenAI marks a significant and exciting step forward in the evolution of legal technology. Currently, a large number of Large Language Models (LLM) being used are trained on generic data and then prompted with specific questions. Harvey’s custom-trained case law model has been trained on ALL of U.S. case law, focusing on outputs relevant to a legal context. This has reduced the prevalence of responses based on false or non-existent information (hallucinations) and has improved the application of the response to a legal context. With data coverage and training being key to ensuring LLMs accuracy, incorporating bespoke legal training and data to increase accuracy may be what’s needed to create technology that is widely adopted within the legal industry. Harvey has quickly grown to a $715m valuation and is currently working with “10 of the largest law firms”. As the technology improves and Harvey opens up the technology to more users, expect to see a race to adopt technology like this to gain a competitive advantage. 

𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 has officially started at Henchman, meaning not only 1, 2, but 3 webinars scheduled before the summer holidays 🤩 👇 Check out the link in comments for more information & how to sign up! 💙 #Webinar #AI #LegalInnovation #LegalTech #LegalTechWebinar

Visualize Legal Trends with Lawroom AI’s Data Insights Unlock powerful data insights in your legal research. Track trends, identify frequently cited judgments, and make data-driven decisions with our new tool. Join our free beta and experience smarter strategies! 📊 Sign up: www.lawroomai.com #LawroomAI #DataInsights #LegalResearch #LegalTechVisualize Legal Trends with Lawroom AI’s Data Insights Unlock powerful data insights in your legal research. Track trends, identify frequently cited judgments, and make data-driven decisions with our new tool. Join our free beta and experience smarter strategies! 📊 Sign up: www.lawroomai.com #LawroomAI #DataInsights #LegalResearch #LegalTech

Glad to have “Beyond Borders: Investigating Cross-Jurisdiction Transfer in Legal Case Summarization” into #NAACL2024 main! Joint work with Vatsal Venkatkrishna, Saptarshi Ghosh and Matthias Grabmair Abstract: Legal professionals face the challenge of managing an overwhelming volume of lengthy judgments, making automated legal case summarization crucial. However, prior approaches mainly focused on training and evaluating these models within the same jurisdiction. In this study, we explore the cross-jurisdictional generalizability of legal case summarization models. Specifically, we explore how to effectively summarize legal cases of a target jurisdiction where reference summaries are not available. In particular, we investigate whether supplementing models with unlabeled target jurisdiction corpus and extractive silver summaries obtained from unsupervised algorithms on target data enhances transfer performance.Our comprehensive study on three datasets from different jurisdictions highlights the role of pre-training in improving transfer performance. We shed light on the pivotal influence of jurisdictional similarity in selecting optimal source datasets for effective transfer. Furthermore, our findings underscore that incorporating unlabeled target data yields improvements in general pre-trained models, with additional gains when silver summaries are introduced. This augmentation is especially valuable when dealing with extractive datasets and scenarios featuring limited alignment between source and target jurisdictions. Our study provides key insights for developing adaptable legal case summarization systems, transcending jurisdictional boundaries.

1️⃣ "Harvey decided to partner with OpenAI to build a custom-trained case law model that would allow them to inject new knowledge, and ways of reasoning about that knowledge, into base models." 2️⃣ “A lot of it was sitting down together, having our lawyers explain how case law research works, having our researchers show what we’ve done, and learning from OpenAI about the levers we had to approach the problem.” 3️⃣ “97% of the time, the lawyers preferred the output from the case law model (as compared to GPT-4).” 4️⃣ "The vision is for Harvey to serve as a supportive member of the team. The opportunity we have is to take care of the routine tasks so professionals can focus their time on client interactions.”

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