Bloomberg Law has launched two new generative AI-powered research tools – Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant – marking the company’s most significant foray into providing its customers with AI-enhanced legal research capabilities.
While Bloomberg Law had previously rolled out targeted gen AI applications, such as AI-powered complaint summaries on dockets, these new tools are its first to deploy gen AI broadly within its platform for legal research and document analysis.
The new features, released in beta after a year of testing through Bloomberg Law’s Innovation Studio, aim to streamline legal research workflows by providing direct answers to legal questions and enabling document-specific querying. Both tools are available to current Bloomberg Law subscribers at no additional cost.
“We took our time to bring these products to market,” Bobby Puglia, chief product officer at Bloomberg Industry Group, told me in an interview. “We were very deliberate and patient in bringing these things to beta until we felt like we’d had extensive user testing and that we’ve got it to a place where we could confidently say that we could trust the answers.”
For users, the Bloomberg Law Answers feature will now appear at the top of their search results, but only if they opt in to activating the feature. The feature provides brief but detailed responses to legal queries, with extensive citation support and specific attribution for different components of each answer, Puglia told me.
(I have not yet seen a demonstration of either feature.)
The AI Assistant, meanwhile, functions as a document-specific tool that appears in a side panel when viewing primary or secondary sources. It allows users to generate summaries and ask targeted questions about the specific source documents they are viewing, with responses confined to information contained within that document.
A key feature of both tools is their approach to source attribution, Puglia said. Unlike some competing products that may list sources only at the end of responses, Bloomberg Law has implemented what Puglia describes as discrete footnotes within the answer to give specific extracts of where this piece of the answer is coming from.
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The Press Release
ARLINGTON, VA — Bloomberg Law today announced the launch of two new generative AI-powered features, Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant. With Bloomberg Law Answers, legal professionals can get quick, precise answers to their legal questions, drawing from a comprehensive range of legal sources available on the Bloomberg Law platform. Bloomberg Law AI Assistant is a chat-based research tool that allows users to generate summaries of legal documents, as well as ask targeted questions to identify specific information from those documents. Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant are available within the Bloomberg Law platform at no additional charge.
Both Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant debuted in Bloomberg Law’s Innovation Studio, an experimental development environment accessible to select customers. The current iterations of these tools have been refined to incorporate suggestions received from Innovation Studio participants, demonstrating Bloomberg Law’s commitment to utilizing a customer-centric approach to developing new features.
“The launch of Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant are the latest examples of our commitment to leveraging innovative technologies to address attorney workflow challenges,” said Bobby Puglia, chief product officer, Bloomberg Industry Group. “Feedback from Bloomberg Law customers who participated in its Innovation Studio has resulted in enhanced accuracy and trustworthy results from these new tools.”
Bloomberg Law Answers leverages generative AI and authoritative content to provide a brief but meaningful answer to a user’s search right on top of their regular results, with no need to learn a new tool. Each answer generated includes citations and links to the Bloomberg Law authorities and source documents used to generate it, including select primary and secondary sources.
Bloomberg Law AI Assistant allows customers to generate summaries of primary content and select secondary content. Generating summaries saves users significant time in their research by providing clear, easy-to-read overviews of documents. Users can also ask the AI Assistant specific questions about the document to quickly identify the information they are looking for.
Bloomberg Law Answers and Bloomberg Law AI Assistant are being released as beta features and will be subject to ongoing refinement based on customer feedback. Bloomberg Law AI Assistant will be updated with additional research skills in the coming months so stay tuned for more announcements.
For more information about Bloomberg Law’s AI innovations and approach to AI, please visit https://aboutblaw.com/bgRs.
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