Great to see law librarians being able to lead the conversation rather than just be the recipeints of press release hype – more of this please- make those companies sweat it a bit!
How do AI-driven legal research platforms — specifically those that provide direct answers to legal questions — stack up against each other?
That was the question at a Feb. 8 meeting of the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, where a panel of three law librarians reported on their comparison of the AI answers delivered by three leading platforms – Lexis+AI, Westlaw Precision AI, and vLex’s Vincent AI.
While all three platforms demonstrated competency in answering basic legal research questions, the panel found, each showed distinct strengths and occasional inconsistencies in their responses to the legal queries the librarians put to them.
But after testing the platforms using three separate legal research scenarios, the panelists’ broad takeaway was that, while AI-assisted legal research tools can provide quick initial answers, they still should be viewed as starting points rather than definitive sources for legal research.
“This is a starting point, not an ending point,” said Mark Gediman, senior research analyst, Alston & Bird, who was one of the three panelists, stressing the continued importance of using traditional legal research skills to verify the AI’s results.
Read the article
https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/in-ai-smackdown-law-librarians-compare-legal-ai-research-platforms-finding-distinct-strengths-and-limitations.html
