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Docket Alarm’s latest integration offers the unparalleled capability for API subscribers to seamlessly connect public litigation data to Litera’s Foundation knowledge management platform.

The New York Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI should be followed closely by any organization that either uses GenAI-backed tech or collects data to train such tools. The implications of the case for the legal profession remain to be seen, but at the very least, using free-for-all GenAI tools to carry out legal research is looking more and more like a case of ‘you get what you pay for’.

The legal world’s excitement over the research potential of ChatGPT was tempered in 2023 by a spate of judicial warnings about the dangers of ChatGPT’s inaccuracies and hallucinations. The judiciary’s position is clear: lawyers must fact-check AI-generated submissions or face harsh penalties. It’s also clear that GenAI is far less risky when accessed through robust legal research tech – such as Vincent AI with its easy source-checking capabilities and vast dataset of non-hallucinated statutes, regulations, and cases.

From March 6 to 7, law firm leaders, and legal tech innovators – including vLex – will converge at Chapman and Cutler law firm in Chicago for The Legal AI Pathfinder’s Assembly. Attendees can look forward to two days of intense peer-led discussion on strategies that will move them closer to realizing the transformative potential of Legal AI.

Vincent AI’s sophisticated new Analyze Document feature moves it closer to being a lawyer’s complete legal research companion. Using vLex’s carefully designed prompts, lawyers can do a deep interrogation of any legal document to build arguments, conduct legal analyses, and a range of other actions that require legal reasoning ability.

This paper presents an analytical overview of some best-practice strategies for using Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform legal tasks — reducing and resolving concerns such as inaccuracy and confabulations (“hallucinations”) — to realize LLMs’ potential to transform legal practice.

Cert, a cutting-edge negative citator tool for Fastcase, empowers legal researchers by swiftly and effortlessly identifying cases that have been treated unfavourably in subsequent decisions, thus providing a comprehensive perspective on a case's precedential value.

In a much-awaited webinar - Emerging Legal Tech Trends and Predictions for 2024 Webinar, now available to watch online - Damien Riehl (vLex’s VP of Product), Robin Chesterman (vLex’s Global Head of Product, and Dan Ivtsan (Head of Product at Docket Alarm), got together to answer these questions, recap an unusually exciting 2023 driven by ChatGPT bursting onto the scene the previous year, and talk about how vLex is already harnessing the power of Generative AI across products.

vLex, an award-winning legal technology company, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Emond Publishing, a leading legal publisher in Canada.

Legal tech always moves at a blistering pace, but it’s easy to see that 2023 was one of the most eventful years in the history of the industry. The combination of vLex and Fastcase certainly pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and law. That’s why we’re taking a look back at the end of the year to review everything that’s happened, in one of the most active years ever in the legal information industry.

vLex and James Publishing have today announced a pivotal new partnership that will support practitioners across the US, as well as those around the world conducting business in the United States. As of November 2023, vLex will host and globally distribute over 200 practical law books and archived titles, as well as forms for federal and select states, as part of the brand-new James Publishing collection on vLex.

LegalTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout legal technology companies, products and services around the globe, today announced that global legal intelligence company vLex, has been selected as “Overall Legal Analytics Solution Of The Year” for their Docket Alarm solution in the 4 annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program.

vLex has released a groundbreaking suite of AI tools in its award-winning assistant Vincent AI, creating the world’s most comprehensive AI legal research platform.

vLex has officially launched the 2024 edition of the International Law and Technology Writing Competition! Students have until December 1st to submit an entry and be in with a chance of winning.

vLex has today launched a new collection of specialised Canadian books, designed to provide practitioners in North America with a greater understanding of Canada’s constitutional, political, and legal institutions.

The legal industry's roles and responsibilities are shifting. This is especially true for those tasks that can be performed alternately by humans, Symbolic AI, and Generative AI. Learn more about the key takeaways from the summer 2023 legal-tech conference season.

vLex has launched a collection of highly sought-after Nigerian legal materials on its award-winning legal research platform. These authoritative materials, provided in partnership with DSC Publications, offer practitioners in Nigeria a solid legal framework to support their understanding and practice of the law.

Could law librarians and other knowledge workers in law firms be replaced by artificial intelligence or are information professionals more important than ever? vLex’s Chief Strategy Officer, and founder of Fastcase, Ed Walters, shares his insights from the 2023 American Association of Law Libraries on this topic.