vLex’s AI Legal Assistant Vincent Gets Major Upgrade

Global legal intelligence company vLex released a significant upgrade to its AI workflow assistant, Vincent AI. The Autumn ‘24 release triples the number of AI workflows to 12 and adds three new countries to its coverage: France, Portugal, and Brazil.

New Countries Added to the Platform

vLex had already used Vincent AI to index and analyse 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 laws of France, Portugal, and Brazil.

vLex’s multinational view of the law is unique. Vincent AI’s global library and tools empower the largest law firms and corporate legal departments to track and compare the law of many nations at once, scan the horizon for new legal developments, and draft legal documents for a global workforce, all in a single platform.

New Abilities Beyond Workflow Tools

The release includes more multi-turn conversation features, empowering users to conduct deeper analysis or ask follow-up questions like a conversation with a research assistant.

The new release also includes Prompt Assist, which automatically offers suggestions about which tools to use or how to phrase prompts for maximum effectiveness. With Prompt Assist, it’s easier than ever to ask questions precisely, so anyone can use legal AI to work smarter.

In addition, instead of analysing single documents, users can now work on multi-document libraries called Collections. Legal teams can create various Collections, such as playbooks, in-house KM resources, brief banks, or style guides. They can be made available to a single user or entire teams.

Collections support both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tasks, such as asking questions to synthesise knowledge about the entire collection and 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.

For over a decade, law firms, litigation finance companies, and corporate legal departments have used Docket Alarm to track, research, and analyse litigation data. During the summer, 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.

This integration, called Vincent in Docket Alarm (or VIDA), allows users to gain deep insights into the big data included in the more than 820 million documents in Docket Alarm. These new insights into custom-query litigation analytics, data-driven biographies of lawyers, analysis of judges, and deep profiles of expert witnesses use data directly from Docket Alarm.

“The Autumn ‘24 release includes many 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.

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:

• Analyse a Contract – instantly identify non-market provisions, harmonise definitions, spot risks, create closing checklists, catalogue post-closing obligations, and flag client-hostile language

• Explore a Collection – extract key facts, create timelines, and analyse entire folders of litigation or transactional documents, including from a firm’s 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
• Analyse a Deposition – summarise, 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 other countries
• 50-State Survey – For US 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
• Analyse a Complaint (or Analyse Pleadings in the UK) – extract claims, facts, and timelines, create questionnaires, itemise available defences
• Redline Analysis – review redlines to summarise changes, assess their likely impact, and develop a negotiation strategy

• Compare Documents – upload multiple documents to identify differences in table format

The new workflow tools give Vincent AI unprecedented ability to review and respond to redline revisions and transactional workflows. They include drafting tools to create memos and arguments from specific jurisdictions to comparisons worldwide – a capability only available from vLex.

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