After the launch of several genAI-based tools for lawyers, LexisNexis is now bringing CaseMap+ AI to market, a multi-feature system for case management that offers: fact surfacing, chronologies and timelines, summarizing deposition transcripts, case analysis, and report-building.
In short, it’s offering what a host of rival legal tech companies are now doing, especially where a chronology or timeline is a central focus for how the lawyer is approaching the information involved in a dispute, along with a host of other features. It’s also, as noted, incorporating genAI. Plus it will connect with Lexis’ other genAI tools, such as Protégé, its personalized legal AI assistant.
It includes:
- ‘Generative AI Transcript and Document Summarization: Streamline the summarization and legal analysis workflow, providing brief and precise summaries to conserve time and effort.
- Third-party Integrations: Facilitate seamless document transfer and metadata management with industry-preferred technologies like iManage and RelativityOne.
- Document Production: Allows Bates stamping of documents.
- Improved Export to Folders and LexisNexis’ SanctionLitigation Presentation Software: Enables efficient download and organization of multiple documents, transcripts, and/or media into a single zip folder.’
Sean Fitzpatrick, CEO of LexisNexis North America, UK, and Ireland, said: ‘Our vision is to integrate Protégé, our personalized legal AI assistant, into CaseMap+ AI, enabling users to harness the power of AI to efficiently analyze, strategize, and draft documents.’
Is this a big deal?
As noted, there are now several companies using genAI to provide most of the above; some offering specialist products for one of these features, others also offering all of them. What matters here is perhaps more the wider battle going on in the market to both retain one’s position and if possible, to expand it, across transactional matters, legal research, and as seen here case management.
As explored before, genAI convergence (i.e. this hugely adaptable AI tech lets everyone do the same things if they want to do so), means that many once very separate legal tech companies are now walking all over each other’s market space.
So, this new ‘multi-skill product’ – (and we can call it an MSP, because acronyms are always fun) – will matter to its main rivals Thomson Reuters and vLex, as well as other broad genAI platforms such as Legora and Harvey; and it will matter to more disputes-focused companies such as Opus 2, and a wide range of specialist startup companies that are pioneering in the case management field, especially around the use of chronologies.
As we all head toward Legal Week in New York later this month, one can be sure there will be plenty of other announcements from many peer companies that tap the MSP approach, that’s for sure.
More information on CaseMap+ AI is here.