LexisNexis today announced its latest enhancement to its Lexis+ platform, Judicial Brief Analysis. Besides the bells and whistles, there are three noteworthy things.
LexisNexis today announced its latest enhancement to its Lexis+ platform, Judicial Brief Analysis. According to the LexisNexis Press Release, Judicial Brief Analysis is designed to quickly identify similarities and differences in opposing filings across multiple documents. It thus can help assess the strengths and weaknesses of the argument on both sides of a matter. It’s an AI-based research tool that can compare briefs and present the analysis in a smooth, impressive dashboard. This elegant dashboard will:
Check and compare quotes, Show the results of Shepard’s analysis, Provide a map and an analysis of the importance of legal and factual terms, Identify relevant documents in the database, Provide a snapshot of what issues popped out of similar fillings that might be relevant, Provide secondary content recommendations, including Practical Guidance, treatises, Provide side-by-side comparisons, and Showcase similarities and differences across multiple documents in a unified view.
As expected of LexisNexis, the product demo was impressive: lots of bells and whistles. But besides the bells and whistles, three things about Judicial Brief Analysis came to mind when I talked to Liz Christman, LexisNexis Product Manager for Judicial Brief Analysis, and watched the impressive demo.
The idea was to create a platform that would mimic the work processes and map the workflow these researchers actually use to assist a judge in coming to a decision.
First, the method used to develop the tool and the approach. According to Christman, LexisNexis talked to hundreds of actual legal researchers, law clerks, and librarians. Most of these researchers work for judges and courts. The people who do the research for judges so they can render well based and supported