Veritext, which provides court reporting and litigation support solutions, has expanded its Smart Summary offerings, which rely on the genAI summarization ‘skill’. In this case it now covers arbitrations, hearings and court trials.
It’s part of a wider trend to tap ‘on-hand’ skills that you can get direct from an LLM and adapt them to legal use cases
Smart Summary comes in several editable formats:
- Page-line,
- Chronological paragraph (typical for insurance litigation),
- Topical paragraph (typical for workers’ compensation litigation).
- It is available for both rough draft transcripts as well as certified transcripts.
And it now offers:
- ‘Editable Transcript Summary of Proceedings,
- Simplification of the Review Process with Key Information: Smart Summary provides digestible details in a quick-to-absorb format that simplifies the review process, whether for a paralegal, attorney, arbitrator or judge.
- Clear and Accessible Details: Smart Summary provides an easy-to-grasp breakdown of complex information in understandable terms that may be helpful for any nonexpert attendees,
- Legal Team Communication: which lets you inform colleagues who couldn’t attend proceedings about critical details so that they can weigh in on strategy or be prepared for the next day of negotiating. ‘
Mike Murray, Veritext’s Director of Technical and Creative Solutions, said: ‘We understand that hearings, arbitrations and court trial proceedings can span several consecutive days and are conducted at a fast pace. For that reason, Smart Summaries are now available for these proceeding types, allowing legal teams and judges access to an AI-generated transcript summary that can aid in preparation and case review for the next day’s proceedings.’
Is this a big deal? Well, perhaps the way to look at this is from the opposite angle: imagine a vendor that dealt with transcripts, but didn’t use genAI now. That said, it’s still a useful step forward and is another area where legal AI tools are driving positive change. Plus, it’s one more line of attack against the fortress of legal inefficiency….
You can find more about Veritext and Smart Summaries here.