Blue Hill prepared a third - party report comparing the respective impact of
traditional legal research tools created by Westlaw and LexisNexis, such as Boolean search and Natural Language search, with the ROSS A.I. tool.
We had students complete a research exercise first using more
traditional legal research tools and then using Blue J Legal.
There are
traditional legal research tools that parse the numerical information in court judgments into statistical information to guide decision making in certain types of matters.
This is not
a traditional legal research tool in the sense that a law firm lawyer would use, but it does allow a corporate client a technology assisted solution for compliance with a myriad of local, regional and state - level regulations that are prone to change rapidly and with little notice.
Not exact matches
«These findings indicate clear advantages resulting from the addition of the ROSS
tool to electronic
legal research involving
traditional tools,» the report concludes.
In earlier posts I've argued that lawyers are not yet adopting (in material percentages at least) the AI - based
tools that can supplement attorneys»
traditional, people - intensive — «manual» — ways of reviewing documents for litigation discovery, automating aspects of due diligence in deals, performing contract management of thousands of a company's agreements, or conducting
legal research (see here and here).
Presumably, the on - line
legal research services and other more
traditional research tools available to us are «premium».
Blue Hill's
research indicated «clear advantages resulting from the use of ROSS to supplement
traditional electronic
legal research practices», ultimately concluding that the ROSS A.I.
tool can «unlock new gains in the efficient and profitable operation of
legal organizations, as well as create opportunities for new revenue gain.»
Limited to answering
legal research questions,
traditional tools end up presenting you with a list of cases that makes it hard to glean insightful information, unless you drill into each and every case.