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What is AI and How Can Law Firms Use It? (Clio)

General Tools

Image Tools

  • DALL-E 2
    • Creates realistic images and art from a natural language description in natural language

Transcription Tools

  • Whisper Web
    • No download required; record a meeting or speak into your microphone and audio is turned into text

Writing Tools

  • Jasper
    • Released February 2021
    • Particularly designed for online marketing and media
  • QuillBot
    • Paraphrasing tool will rephrase your sentence, paragraph, essay, or article; options available to customize and perfect the reworded text
  • Jasper AI vs. Quillbot
  • Wordtune
    • Released October 2020
    • Capable of fixing grammatical errors, understanding context and meaning, suggesting paraphrases or alternative writing tones

Research Services

Lexis+ has made it's artificial intelligence tool available to law schools. Review their FAQ document for a brief introduction and overview.

What's Hot in AI

 Cloudflare

Cloudflare is a secure cloud platform. The service has recently announced the release of a free tool that prevents AI companies' bots from scraping its clients' websites for content to train large language models. 

 GPT-4 Omni

GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, image, and video and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs.

  Hume.AI

Promoted as the first AI with emotional intelligence. The empathic voice interface (EVI) is able to interpret emotional expressions and generate empathic responses.

  Pi.AI

Trained to be emotionally intelligent and form a unique bond with its users. It aims to be your personal assistant rather than a standard information gatherer or generator.

Law/Legal Specific Tools

AI.Law

  • A legal technology startup, uses artificial intelligence to generate litigation documents, able to draft a complaint to initiate a lawsuit.

Alexi

  • Alexi Arguments - brainstorm legally valid arguments to achieve a particular outcome.
  • Alexi Chat - AI assistant for routine litigation tasks
  • Alexi Memos - generate legal memos in a matter of minutes.

Casetext

  • CoCounsel
    • Marketed as an AI legal assistant, CoCounsel does document review, deposition preparation, contract analysis, and timeline creation.
  • Legacy Research
    • No need to formulate Boolean or Terms & Connectors searches, type in an argument or upload a document to find on-point authority.

Everlaw

  • Everlaw Platform
    • Designed as a tool for the entire ediscovery process, from data upload and processing to search, review, production, and trial preparation.
  • Everlaw AI Assistant
    • Resolve legal matters quickly with generative AI technology built specifically for litigation and investigations

Harvey AI (Beta)

  • Uses a mix of different types of AI—natural language processing and machine learning—Harvey AI assists lawyers with tasks like contract review and regulatory compliance. It is capable of sifting through large amounts of data to make recommendations based on its review.

Latch

  • A generative assistant that integrates into Microsoft Word to help simplify language, create custom checklists for contracts, summarize agreements, and more.

Lex Machina

  • An AI-powered legal analytics tool that crawls legal databases like USPTO, ITC/EDIS, PACER, and state court data; compiles information like findings, case outcomes, and damages.

Lexplug

  • Gunnerbot - have a direct conversation with a case; ask questions, seek clarification, and get answers in real-time.
  • Instant brief generation

Luminance

  • An AI platform that automates the generation, negotiation and analysis of contracts. It uses a proprietary legal Large Language Model (LLM) and is validated by lawyers.

Relativity

  • Helps to automate the ediscovery/information-gathering process, manage the document review process, and streamline redactions

Smith.ai

  • A virtual receptionist service that uses AI to improve the client intake process and reduce missed calls

Spellbook

  • Uses GPT-4 to review and suggest language for contracts and legal documents within Microsoft Word

Trellis

  • An AI-powered state court research and analytics platform for litigators

vLex

  • vLex includes a number of practice tools for research, analytics, and practice management
  • Vincent AI
    • AI-powered legal analysis based on vLex's library of opinions, statutes, regulations, dockets, pleadings and motions, as well as secondary materials and treatises

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