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vLex  (Fastcase) is releasing a major upgrade to Vincent AI. This new release increases the number of workflows from 4 to 12. This includes expansion of both litigation and transactional tools and the addition of AI tools for additional jurisdictions including France Portugal and Brazil. vLex is the first generative AI platform to receive the American Association of Law…
Continue Reading vLex Vincent AI Upgrade: 12 Skills, 12 Countries + the EU, Transactional Skills and VIDA AI for Dockets

Global legal intelligence company vLex today (12 September) released a major upgrade to its AI research assistant Vincent AI, which is now capable of transactional as well as litigation-based tasks. […]
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Continue Reading vLex unveils major upgrade to research assistant Vincent AI

The “Autumn ’24” release from vLex adds transactional and drafting workflows to vLex’s traditional litigation and research capabilities, plus new Docket Alarm AI capabilities and AI tools for France, Portugal and Brazil. But beyond new skills, “Vincent AI is now a platform,” vLex Global Head of Product Robin Chesterman said.
Continue Reading Major vLex Upgrade Expands Vincent AI Platform to Include Transactional Workflows, New Countries

 Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the race has been on among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant for legal professionals. Today, vLex is releasing a major upgrade to its Vincent AI that puts it firmly in the running for that honor.
I might be even more effusive had I actually been…
Continue Reading As It Unveils Major Upgrade of Its Vincent AI, vLex May Now Be the Most Capable AI Assistant in the Legal Market

This week we talk with Ed Walters from VLex to explore the Autumn 2024 release of VLex’s Vincent AI platform. Ed discusses a series of transformative updates that are turning Vincent AI from a legal research tool into a comprehensive platform that integrates drafting, transactional, and research tasks. These updates include new workflow tools, redlining capabilities, and an innovative feature…
Continue Reading vLex’s Autumn ’24 Update: Show and Tell with Ed Walters

As I wrote here earlier this month, tomorrow was the scheduled start date for the trial in Thomson Reuters v. 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.
But today the judge overseeing the trial, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court…
Continue Reading Breaking: Continuance Ordered On Eve of Trial In Thomas Reuters Lawsuit Against ROSS Intelligence

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.
The validity of those copyrights will be a central issue later this month when the  long-running lawsuit between that legal…
Continue Reading David v. Goliath Trial Begins this Month in Case that Challenges Thomson Reuter’s Longstanding Copyrights in Legal Research Materials

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. 
Paxton also today released a new Confidence Indicator feature that will help its users evaluate…
Continue Reading Paxton AI Releases Benchmarking Data Showing 94% Accuracy Of Its Legal Research Tool; Also Releases New ‘Confidence Indicator’ Feature

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. But in this age of AI-generated hallucinations, they may be more important than ever before.
Just two products have long dominated the legal research market as the gold standard of citators: Shepard’s from…
Continue Reading New Citators from vLex and Paxton Underscore That They Are The Holy Grail for Legal Research Companies

Will Generative AI awaken the need for serious focus legal research education?

The introduction of Generative AI to the practice of law has been anything but smooth. First there was the unfortunate case of Mr. Schwartz who used Chat GPT-3 to write a brief complete with hallucinated cases which he submitted to a federal  court in New York. Judge castell…
Continue Reading Generative AI Risk in Legal Research: Is the Fault in the Technology or in Ourselves? Answer is Both

It was only a year ago that the US based Fastcase was merged with a European legal information and technology company vLex. In what I have to assume is a move to compete with Casetext and Lexis + AI, Harvey would be positioning itself to take on the Generative AI strategies of Thomson Reuters and Lexis Nexis. Both companies…
Continue Reading Breaking Rumor: Harvey Seeking to Buy vLex? A Move for Global Dominance?

There’s gold in them thar hills. Mark Twain in 1892 novel The American Claimant

Almost every law firm has a great wealth of documents and knowledge locked up in work they have previously done in cases and matters. If only they could find it. The problem, as I have discussed before, is that lawyers don’t want to spend nonbillable time…
Continue Reading vLex and iManage Partner to Maximize Customer Past Efforts: But User Process is Key