Korea’s first artificial intelligence (AI) legal secretary, “Super Royer,” developed by Law & Company, the operator of the legal service platform “Lotok,” will be released in June. AI, which has deeply learned vast amounts of Korean precedents and laws, is expected to take on a large part of the overtime work previously carried out by lawyers, such as drafting legal documents, summarizing legal documents, organizing issues, and legal research.
On the 24th, the legal tech industry believes that Super Royer, which is scheduled to come out in June, will be a strong opponent of LexisNexis’ ‘Lexis Plus AI’, a U.S. legal information company released in Korea on the 19th. The lukewarm response of Korean lawyers who recently participated in the Lexis-Plus AI launch event held by Lexis-Nexis is also raising expectations for Superior. Critics point out that Lexis Plus AI has limitations in revitalizing Korea in that it is a 100% English version service based on U.S. precedents and U.S. laws.
Lawyer A, who went to the launch event, said, “Since it is not a version of Korean precedents and laws learned in Korean legal language, it remains to be seen how comfortable we (domestic lawyers) can use it.”
In the midst of this, Law & Company is planning to launch a cloud-based legal service software called SuperLayer in June and sell it to law firms, ministries, institutions, and associations in earnest. Solar Legal, a large-scale legal language model developed jointly with AI startup Upstage, which recently collaborated, and released first of the same month, will function as a driving engine for SuperLayer. An official from Law & Company said, “As a result of the internal test of the Superior Alpha version, lawyers evaluated it as showing a high understanding of domestic legal information, ranging from the use of professional legal terms to specific laws and sentencing.” The official added, “The response is that it is of great help to legal work compared to general Generative AI, such as generating a table of contents for each detailed issue.”
[Reporter KIM SANGYUN]
