Westlaw Edge Puts AI to Work for Lawyers
Legal research just got a little bit easier thanks to the combination of artificial intelligence and Westlaw.
The new product, known as Westlaw Edge promises to provide practitioners with the most advanced legal research software on the market. The updated and new, AI-powered, tools, can still deliver the same high-quality research you've come to expect from Westlaw, but now it's faster and more comprehensive. (Disclosure: Westlaw is FindLaw's sister company.)
Below, you can read about three of the new features.
WestSearch Plus
One of the more exciting AI-powered tools being released with Westlaw Edge is called WestSearch Plus, which will also get a standalone smartphone app. This search engine uses smart predictive text, machine learning, and all of Westlaw's resources, to suggest the best search phrases for your query. It's like the feature in Google, but AI-tailored and supercharged for your legal research. This feature means those who used to struggle to find the right search terms won't have to waste time finding the right terms to search.
KeyCite Overruling Risk
One of Westlaw's most important legal research features, KeyCite, is getting a huge upgrade. The upgrade goes beyond the previous functionality of KeyCite to tell you when a case has been distinguished, overturned, or upheld, the KeyCite Overruling Risk now provides warnings when a decision is at risk of being overturned due to reliance on overruled, or invalid, decisions. For law and motion practitioners, this upgrade is the next big thing.
Statutes Compare
Ever taken a case only to find out that the statute has changed, or was updated, since the cause of action arose? Westlaw Edge's new feature, Statutes Compare, will allow you to quickly see the differences between the new and old statutes.
With all these new AI-powered research tools, we lawyers might finally have what we need to compete against the robot lawyers that are coming for our jobs.
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