Autumn ‘24 Release Expands Transactional and Drafting Workflow Tools for 10 Existing Countries, Adds AI Tools for France, Portugal, and Brazil, Extends Tools for Collections of Documents.
Miami, FL (Sept. 12, 2024), Global legal intelligence company vLex today released a major upgrade to its award-winning 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.
The legal tech industry had already recognized Vincent AI as one of the most powerful in the market. Even before today’s release, the American Association of Law Libraries named Vincent AI the 2024 New Product of the Year, the first generative AI tool to receive that honor. The Autumn ‘24 release expands the portfolio to a dozen different AI-powered workflow tools. In addition, the new version includes multi-turn conversation, prompt assistance, and review of entire folders or collections of documents.
The first generation of Vincent AI focused on litigation drafting and research, powered by one of the world’s largest online law libraries. The Autumn ‘24 release includes new workflow tools for transactional tasks, which had been frequently requested by global law firm subscribers, as well as expanded workflows for litigation work as well.
“Because it is powered by one of the world’s largest libraries of structured legal data, Vincent AI has offered some of the most powerful AI workflow tools in the world,” said vLex CEO Lluís Faus. “The Autumn ‘24 release includes those workflow tools and more, and in more countries. Really, Vincent AI has evolved to become an AI platform, hosting many different tools for drafting, planning, analysis, and research,” he added.
“vLex may now be the most capable AI assistant in the legal market,” commented Bob Ambrogi, lawyer, journalist, and award-winning blogger and podcaster.
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:
- Analyze a Contract – instantly identify non-market provisions, harmonize definitions, spot risks, create closing checklists, catalog post-closing obligations, and flag client-hostile language
- Explore a Collection – extract key facts, create timelines, and analyze entire folders of litigation or transactional documents, including from firm 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
- Analyze a Deposition – summarize, 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 different countries
- 50-State Survey – For U.S. 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
- Analyze a Complaint (or Analyse Pleadings in the UK) – extract claims, facts, and timelines, create questionnaires, itemize available defenses
- Redline Analysis – review redlines to summarize 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 very specific jurisdictions to comparisons around the world – a capability only available from vLex.
New Countries Added to the Platform
vLex had already used Vincent AI to index and analyze 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 law 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, to scan the horizon for new legal developments, and to draft legal documents for a global workforce, all in a single platform.
New Abilities Beyond Workflow Tools
The Autumn ‘24 release includes more multi-turn conversation features, empowering users to conduct deeper analysis or ask follow-up questions, just 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. Vincent AI was already hailed as one of the easiest-to-use legal AI tools. 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 analyzing single documents, users can now work on multi-document libraries, called Collections. Legal teams can create many different kinds of Collections, such as playbooks, in-house KM resources, brief banks, or style guides. They can be made available to a single user, or to entire teams.
Collections support both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tasks, such as asking questions to synthesize knowledge about the entire collection, as well 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 more than a decade, law firms, litigation finance companies, and corporate legal departments have used Docket Alarm to track, research, and analyze 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.
Called Vincent in Docket Alarm (or “VIDA”), this integration allows users 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 lots of 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.
“And I’d like to remind people that, even though we’re already on the third major update, Vincent AI isn’t yet a year old,” Chesterman added. “We’re already testing some amazing applications that we’ll add to Vincent AI shortly – maybe in Winter ‘24.”
About vLex
vLex is a global legal intelligence platform that provides legal professionals with access to the most extensive collection of legal and regulatory information worldwide, all on one award-winning and unique platform. After its April 2023 merger with Fastcase, vLex now includes the Fastcase, Docket Alarm and NextChapter brands. Trusted by more than two million lawyers, researchers, government departments, and law schools worldwide, vLex offers comprehensive and intuitive access to the law in more than 200 jurisdictions through an intelligent, AI-powered legal research platform.
Recognized by the American Association of Law Libraries as the 2024 New Product of the Year and the Legaltech Breakthrough Awards for three years in a row 2021-23, vLex is a leader in legal AI and global intelligence. The merger with Fastcase has furthered vLex’s commitment to developing AI-driven solutions for the world’s legal industry and delivering the world’s largest global law library of over one billion legal documents on a single platform, to enable legal professionals to work smarter and find relevant insights faster.
