Wolters Kluwer has launched additional genAI functionality for VitalLaw, the company’s legal research platform, putting it more on a par with some of its peers. The new ‘VitalLaw AI’ taps into 25 practice areas including tax, securities, privacy, and labour and employment, then allows you to perform LLM-based skills, such as Q&A related to legal queries and summarisation of what has been found.
Although, they are still keeping a human editor-in-the-loop for some aspects of what it provides in terms of responses.
This is how they explain what the genAI capabilities can do:
- ‘Customers will have a safe and familiar experience that provides AI-generated answers while identifying other related questions people ask without compromising an organization’s data
- The ‘editor-in the-loop’ provides answers to commonly asked questions that have been pre-vetted by a Wolters Kluwer expert for accuracy. Outputs and user feedback are reviewed to enhance answers.
- Upon completion of a search, customers can chat directly with VitalLaw content to generate executive summaries, create checklists, identify key points, and simplify complex legal terminology for communication with other important stakeholders.’
Ken Crutchfield, Vice President & General Manager of Legal Markets at Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory U.S. said ‘VitalLaw AI harnesses Wolters Kluwer’s practical and value-first approach to AI. Our platform not only helps legal professionals locate and chat with the right information, but also extends that workflow by creating first drafts, compliance checklists or other key deliverables. The extended workflow increases attorney productivity and can help create better client deliverables.’
Earlier this year, Wolters Kluwer also unveiled the company’s dedicated ‘AI centre’. The site centralizes the company’s latest AI-insights, research, and AI-driven information solutions in one accessible location, catering to professionals across critical sectors such as health, financial services, legal, ESG, risk, regulatory, and compliance, they explained.
Overall, a good move that will keep them on pace with other legal research rivals such as Thomson Reuters, LexisNexis, vLex and others which have embraced genAI ‘skills’ and applied them to their data bases.