As I wrote last year at Above the Law, for legal research, brief analysis is the new vogue. After legal research company Casetext introduced the first brief analysis tool in 2016, CARA, other companies followed suit with an array of brief analysis products own, including Clerk from Judicata, Vincent from vLex, EVA from ROSS Intelligence, and Quick Check from Thomson Reuters.
Last July, Bloomberg Law announced its plan to launch a brief analyzer of its own, providing a preview of a prototype during an event at the American Association of Law Libraries annual meeting.
Today, Bloomberg Law formally launched its brief analyzer tool, aptly named Brief Analyzer. Available to Bloomberg Law subscribers, it reviews the text of an uploaded legal brief or memorandum to identify other content that may be relevant, including cases not cited in the document, similar briefs from other dockets, and information from Bloomberg Law’s Practical Guidance.
While I have not yet seen the version released today, the description suggests that it closely mirrors the prototype I wrote about last July.
Brief Analyzer suggests opinions relevant to the arguments in the brief.
Note: Images in this post are from the prototype and may not reflect the final version.
What Brief Analyzer does is similar to other brief analysis products: You upload a brief, it analyzes the authorities cited in the brief, and it then suggests relevant content not cited in the brief.
A feature I liked in the prototype, which appears to be retained in the final version, is that Brief Analyzer not only suggests cases and authorities that may be relevant to your brief, but it also includes phrases that briefly explain its suggestions, such as, “Is from the same court,” and, “Contains similar language like irreparable injury.”
Another nice feature is side-by-side display of the brief and the analysis. As I saw this feature in the prototype,
