As reported elsewhere, vLex, a legal research and database provider, recently announced significant enhancements to its AI tool, Vincent. These upgrades are designed to provide lawyers and legal professionals with enhanced practical solutions, address knowledge gaps, and offer valuable insights.
With the release, vLex is offering significant new workflows. The new features will be particularly helpful for litigators. What I like about the vLex products is that they seem to offer options in ways that can help litigators with real-world problems and improvements. The new enhancements seem to be consistent with this approach.
These new features include:
• Multimodal support for audio and video, which will create transcripts and allow users to query and analyze recordings.
• Enhanced AI capabilities for vLex’s Docket and Docket Alarm platforms, improving legal research, analysis, and case tracking.
• A new Build an Argument feature can assist lawyers in identifying legal issues, analyzing arguments, and providing relevant case law.
• Expansion to four additional countries—Hong Kong, Italy, Peru, and Ecuador have been added to Vincent, bringing the total coverage to 17 countries.
Additionally, vLex will open a beta for Vincent Studio, a platform allowing interested law firms to build their own workflow tools by integrating their internal data with vLex’s technology.
According to Ed Walters, vLex’s Chief Strategy Officer, “I think we’ve worked to make Vincent the best tool in this market—comprehensive, transparent, secure, and, most importantly, useful.”
Vincent Studio Beta: Unlocking Internal Knowledge
The beta opportunity is a game-changer. Vincent Studio will allow law firms to begin safely integrating Vincent with their own internal data, something that has historically been a challenge. As I’ve written before, law firms hold a wealth of knowledge in past documents, but accessing that information has always been difficult. As Mark Twain wrote, “There’s gold in them thar hills.” As with gold, the trick is