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Thomson Reuters Has announced the release of Claims Explorer, a new generative AI skill available in Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel. The new feature enables lawyers to enter facts in to the tool and retrieve applicable claims or counterclaims.
This new generative AI feature simplifies claims research, when lawyers are filing a lawsuit, defending a lawsuit, or advising clients on potential liability..
Mike Dahn, head of Westlaw Product Management, Thomson Reuters explained the unique value proposition of the product in the press release. “Finding claims with traditional research methods can be difficult and time consuming. Even experienced lawyers can miss applicable
claims. Customers have told us about the difficulty of claims research for years, and it’s not just that it can take hours – it’s error prone, which is easy to see in how often reputable firms attempt to add new claims or counterclaims later in litigation, after the initial pleadings. But courts won’t always allow you to add a claim later, and missing the best claims can have significant consequences. It can mean the -difference between winning or losing a motion, recovering more in damages or attorney’s fees, or potentially losing a case.”
According to Dahn, the new skill “was purpose-built using the latest generative AI plus new claims content created by Thomson Reuters attorney editors. When we tried to solve claims research issues with AI alone, it didn’t work very well, so we had our attorney editors create new content about causes of action that enabled AI to work much better. We’ll continue to do work like this for other workflows where AI alone struggles.”
Specific benefits include:
• In testing with attorneys, those who used the new capability found relevant causes of action three times faster than when using traditional research methods.
• In reviewing Am Law 50 litigation where claims were added after the initial pleadings, the new skill found 94% of the claims that were missed in the initial pleadings and later added by the firms.
“In our survey with attorneys about claims research, 69% reported taking cases they would have rejected had they fully understood the value of the claims, and 23% rejected new business based on a lack of a cause of action where they found later that a valid claim existed,” Dahn said.
To learn more about the Claims Explorer skill visit Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel.
