Final September, two litigation-focused Canadian authorized know-how corporations, CiteRight and Jurisage, announced their merger, with the promise of mixing CiteRight’s litigation drafting program with Jurisage’s AI know-how to create an built-in authorized analysis and drafting answer.
Now, within the first utility to end result from that merger, CiteRight is immediately launching AI Insights by Jurisage, an AI-powered software embedded inside CiteRight that helps litigation groups rapidly discover, synthesize, and generate high-quality case regulation summaries.
Aaron Wenner, CiteRight’s CEO, confirmed me throughout a preview demonstration how AI Insights can be utilized by data administration specialists, regulation librarians, and litigators to immediately generate case summaries, ideally formatted for functions equivalent to data alerts, listening to preparation, or analyzing circumstances cited by opposing counsel.
That is based mostly on the identical Jurisage know-how that’s already being utilized by a lot of Canadian regulation corporations and that has been chosen by the Included Council of Regulation Reporting for England and Wales (ICLR) as its official supplier of AI-generated case regulation summaries, Wenner mentioned, solely now it’s directed embedded inside CiteRight.
In his demonstration, Wenner highlighted three options of this software:
- It’s designed to do one factor nicely. It’s targeted on a selected use case, that of serving to litigators discover the phrases to summarize the circumstances they already know. “We don’t goal to draft solely new, earth-shaking arguments,” Wenner mentioned. “As an alternative, we’re fixing the mechanical element to the data work that attorneys are already doing.”
- No chatbots. Wenner mentioned prospects have instructed him that one among their greatest impediments to utilizing generative AI is the necessity to consider a intelligent immediate. Slightly than require prompts, AI Insights permits the consumer to pick capabilities from easy drop-down menus. “We’re agency believers in the concept that gen AI instruments will solely work in authorized in the event that they perform inside present workflows,” Wenner mentioned.
- No additional price. That is accessible to all CiteRight prospects, at no additional price. Wenner mentioned it’s because he views AI as an enabling know-how to workflows, not an impartial worth add.
‘Glorious’ Summaries
CiteRight’s core product is research-management software program that allows attorneys to avoid wasting circumstances from on-line authorized databases after which make them accessible straight inside Microsoft Phrase. A consumer can learn, evaluate and arrange circumstances, then click on a case to quote it robotically, formatted in correct quotation fashion. It additionally generates tables of authority and retains copies of all of the circumstances utilized in doc so they’re accessible afterward.
What AI Insights brings to that’s the capacity to generate what Wenner says are “glorious” summaries, and to take action in quite a lot of codecs. From a drop-down, the consumer can choose a abstract fashion:
- Authorized conclusions.
- Info.
- Temporary info.
- 100 phrase abstract.
- 200 phrase abstract.
- IRAC spotlight (concern, rule, evaluation, conclusion).
- ‘Who have been the events and what was the end result.’
- Authorized check utilized in end result.
- Simply the info.
- Points.
Primarily based on interviews with its prospects, Wenner mentioned, one instance of a key use case for this know-how is making ready for oral argument of a beforehand written temporary or memorandum.
That temporary is prone to include quite a few citations to circumstances — all circumstances the lawyer could have learn and synthesized when writing the temporary. However when oral argument comes up some months later, the lawyer will need a refresher, a solution to simply perceive what every of these circumstances mentioned.
With AI Insights, the consumer pastes the case quotation and selects the type of abstract. The consumer can view the generated abstract alongside the case to confirm its accuracy, after which paste it straight right into a case abstract listing.
(Wenner mentioned the necessity to copy and paste the quotation will change quickly and the flexibility to generate the abstract will probably be straight built-in inside CiteRight.)
The software can also be helpful for data administration professionals for duties equivalent to creating case regulation alerts, Wenner mentioned. When an vital case is available in and the data skilled desires to alert the suitable follow group, this software will make it straightforward to create the abstract.
Wenner mentioned that CiteRight plans to proceed to develop extra AI-driven capabilities, however that it’ll accomplish that in phases, in partnership with its prospects.
“The chance right here is to assist regulation corporations entry and extract extra which means from their paperwork extra successfully,” he mentioned. “This can be a data administration problem that’s wrapped in a consumer expertise downside.
“We predict that we’re the corporate to get there and we have now unbelievable momentum behind us and unbelievable pleasure about what it’s that we’re constructing.”
Be aware: CiteRight is offered just for Canadian case regulation. Wenner mentioned he hopes to develop to the U.S. in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later.