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 Libraries New Product of the Year Award.
Ed Walters, Chief Strategy Officer of vLex is on fire is describing the new release. ”The autumn ‘24 release of Vincent AI is the biggest yet. Vincent is now a platform for all kinds of work dash transactional, litigation, contract or research period the AI is only as good as the data it is built on and the global data set of vLex is the best in the world – that is why the Vincent platform is so popular.”
The platform offers, new usability features, new workflows and new jurisdictions. Features include The feature which blew me away was VIDA an AI enabled Docket search. Additional new features include multi-turn conversation, prompt assistance, and review of entire folders branded as “Collections” because it can analyze entire collections of documents.
As the only Generative AI enabled international legal research platform, the new features allow
in-house and firm lawyers “to track and compare the law of many nations at once, to scan the horizon for new legal developments, and to draft legal documents for a global workforce, all in a single platform.”
“Because it is powered by one of the world’s largest libraries of structured legal data, Vincent AI has offered some of the most powerful AI workflow tools in the world,” said vLex CEO Lluís Faus. “The Autumn ‘24 release includes those workflow tools and more, and in more countries. Really, Vincent AI has evolved to become an AI platform, hosting many different tools for drafting, planning, analysis, and research,” he added.
New Workflow Tools for Transactions, Analysis, and Litigation
vLex is adding new tools to Vincent AI all the time, but the Autumn ‘24 release already includes the following workflows:
- Analyze a Contract – instantly identify non-market provisions, harmonize definitions, spot risks, create closing checklists, catalog post-closing obligations, and flag client-hostile language
- Explore a Collection – extract key facts, create timelines, and analyze entire folders of litigation or transactional documents, including from firm DMS systems
- Ask a Research Question – create a research memo to answer legal questions in 13 countries, with direct citations and links to verified sources, including Fastcase’s Cert citator in the United States
- Analyze a Deposition – summarize, extract key facts, identify follow-up questions and objections, and build timelines
- Build an Argument – research and draft winning arguments for or against propositions, based on precedent in specific jurisdictions
- Compare Law in Different Jurisdictions – scan the horizon, or compare governing law across different states in the United States, or between different countries
- 50-State Survey – For U.S. work, compare the law of all 50 states and the federal government with a single, plain-language search, and get table results, with editorial support, in minutes
- Find Related Authorities – upload a document to find related authorities from vLex, including primary and secondary materials
- Analyze a Complaint (or Analyse Pleadings in the UK) –extract claims, facts, and timelines, create questionnaires, itemize available defenses
- Redline Analysis – review redlines to summarize changes, assess their likely impact, and develop a negotiation strategy
- Compare Documents – upload multiple documents to identify differences in table format
New Countries
vLex had already used Vincent AI to index and analyze the law of the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Spain, the European Union, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, New Zealand and Singapore. With this release, Vincent will also have native legal workflows in French and Portuguese, with the addition of the law of France, Portugal, and Brazil.
New Abilities Beyond Workflow Tools
Multi-turn conversation features, empowering users to conduct deeper analysis or ask follow-up questions, just like a conversation with a research assistant.
Prompt Assist, automatically offers suggestions about which tools to use, or how to phrase prompts for maximum effectiveness.
Collections: Multi-document analysis Instead of analyzing single documents, users can now work on multi-document libraries, called Collections. Legal teams can create many different kinds of Collections, such as playbooks, in-house KM resources, brief banks, or style guides. They can be made available to a single user, or to entire teams.
Collections support both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tasks, such as asking questions to synthesize knowledge about the entire collection, as well batch processing workflows such as document extraction.
Vincent AI in Docket Alarm (VIDA)
This release brings the first deep integrations of Vincent AI into the extensive Docket Alarm collection of state and federal dockets, as well as the complaints, answers, briefs and pleadings in those dockets. VIDA provides users with deep insights into the big data included in the more than 820 million Docket Alarm documents. Use cases include:custom-query into litigation analytics, data-driven biographies of lawyers, analysis of judges, and deep profiles of expert witnesses, using data directly from Docket Alarm.
New APIs. For more than a decade, law firms, litigation finance companies, and corporate legal departments have used Docket Alarm to track, research, and analyze litigation data. The vLex team developed new APIs to access the Docket Alarm data at scale. In this release, Vincent AI can access those APIs to search Docket Alarm using AI similar to the way Vincent AI searches the world’s law from vLex.
vLex Labs “The Autumn ‘24 release includes lots of new workflow tools, but this new version of Vincent AI goes way beyond just new skills,” said vLex Global Head of Product Robin Chesterman. “Vincent AI is now a platform. Law firms are co-developing their own AI applications with vLex Labs. They are uploading Collections and working on them as a team, getting query support along the way with Prompt Assist. And they can do this work across languages and geographic boundaries, seamlessly,” he added.
“And I’d like to remind people that, even though we’re already on the third major update, Vincent AI isn’t yet a year old,” Chesterman added. “We’re already testing some amazing applications that we’ll add to Vincent AI shortly – maybe in Winter ‘24.”
About vLex
vLex is a global legal intelligence platform that provides legal professionals with access to the most extensive collection of legal and regulatory information worldwide, all on one award-winning and unique platform. After its April 2023 merger with Fastcase, vLex now includes the Fastcase, Docket Alarm and NextChapter brands. Trusted by more than two million lawyers, researchers, government departments, and law schools worldwide, vLex offers comprehensive and intuitive access to the law in more than 200 jurisdictions through an intelligent, AI-powered legal research platform.
Recognized by the American Association of Law Libraries as the 2024 New Product of the Year and the Legaltech Breakthrough Awards for three years in a row 2021-23, vLex is a leader in legal AI and global intelligence. The merger with Fastcase has furthered vLex’s commitment to developing AI-driven solutions for the world’s legal industry and delivering the world’s largest global law library of over one billion legal documents on a single platform, to enable legal professionals to work smarter and find relevant insights faster. For more information about vLex, visit www.vlex.com.
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