Expert Systems are defined here as primary rules-based systems that allow a lawyer, or member of the public, to interact with the trained/pre-set software to find answers to legal questions, and/or to be guided through the completion of legal forms and documents, or other legal process.
The companies listed here are:
- A2JAuthor
- Berkeley Bridge (also see in Contracting Platforms, Document Automation.)
- BRYTER
- Josef
- LawDroid
- Neota Logic
A2JAuthor (CALI)
Core Product(s): A2J Author
Main Technology: Form and Legal Process Automation/Expert System
Key Use Cases: Legal aid, court, probono and academic law clinic form automation.
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HQ: CALI
Chicago, IL
Other Offices: Atlanta, Minneapolis
Total Staff (approx.): 10
Year of Founding: 1982
Development Stage (e.g. Beta, fully operational): fully operational
CEO (or equiv): John Mayer / Executive Director
CTO (or equiv):Jessica Frank / Project Manager
Main external investors, if any: Non-profit consortium of 200 US law schools
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Target Market: Courts, law clinics, legal aid, non-profits serviing self-representing litigants (SRLs)
Main Legal Jurisdictions in which you currently operate: All
Reference Clients:
–New York Family Courts DIY Forms (https://www.nycourts.gov/courthelp/diy/index.shtml)
Michigan Law Help (https://michiganlegalhelp.org/)
Law Help Interactive (lawhelpinteractive.org)
Pricing Model(s): Use of A2J Author for SRLs is free to courts, law school clinics and legal aid. For commercial use, contact us. Self-serve training is free on our YouTube.com/a2jauthor channel. Custom training and consulting available on project basis.
Software Configuration (e.g. cloud; on-site installation): Many options – Self hosting, hosted solution at www.a2j.org (Fall 2018), hosting through lawhelpinteractive.org (legal aid restrictions).
Security Standards (e.g. ISO Cert, or other): Extensive security built in. No certifications.
Company Description: CALI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of over 200 US law schools and other affiliate organizations that works at the intersection of technology, law, legal education and access to justice. We are funded primarily by law school membership dues. CALI publishes over 1000 web-based tutorials that each law students the law. CALI publishes over 40 casebooks under a Creative Commons license. CALI is the developer of A2J Author which is used in over 40 states and by law schools as an experiential learning expert system.What is your core product’s key selling point?
A2J-Author’s UI/UX is specifically designed for SRLs to successfully complete complicated court forms and legal process interviews. Mobile/responsive and used over 6 million times in past decade.
Main contact email: jessica@cali.org
Twitter (or other social media): @a2jauthor
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Berkeley Bridge
Core Product(s): Berkeley Publisher
Main Technology: Expert system, Document Assembly
Key Use Cases: Expert systems, Document Assembly, Document Automation (see other section)
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HQ: Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands
Other Offices: NA
Total Staff (approx.): 14
Year of Founding: 2005
Development Stage: Fully operational
CEO (or equiv): Oskar Snijders
CTO (or equiv): Matthijs de Vries
Main external investors, if any: None, privately held
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Target Market: Law firms, general counsels, governments, compliance, HR, healthcare
Main Legal Jurisdictions in which you currently operate: EMEA
Reference Clients: Stibbe, CMS, Galp, Kennedy van der Laan, Wolters Kluwer, Dutch Government, Wolf Theiss and Van Doorne.
Pricing Model(s): Yearly subscription.
Software Configuration (e.g. cloud; on-site installation): both cloud & on premises are possible.
Security Standards (e.g. ISO Cert, or other): ISO 27001, NEN 7510
Company Description:
Berkeley Bridge believes that the existing knowledge & experience in organizations is the most important precondition for success. The effective use of all information available allows organizations to optimize processes and to serve customers better.
Berkeley Bridge has been supporting organizations for over fifteen years by advising them and inspiring them in terms of knowledge systems. We provide solutions for designing, managing, and sharing knowledge in, inter alia, the legal domain, in health care, for the government, and in many other sectors.
In order for everyone in the organization to benefit optimally, however, it is important that this valuable information is accessible and practically applicable. In practice, most information is located in the minds of employees, hidden in separate documentation or fragmented in different systems. Therefore, we aim to make a significant contribution to the improvement of knowledge sharing in your organization so that valuable information is available to everyone and so that it can actually be of decisive value to your organization.
What is your core product’s key selling point?
No coding platform for domain experts.
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Main contact email: rvandeplassche@berkeleybridge.nl
Twitter (or other social media):
https://www.linkedin.com/company/berkeley-bridge
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BRYTER
Core Product(s): No-Code Automation Toolbox for Decision Automation
Main Technology: Expert Systems, Online-Platform, Conversational AI (ML)
Key Use Cases: Decision Automaton and Knowledge Automation
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HQ: Berlin, Germany
Other Offices: Frankfurt, Germany
Total Staff (approx.): 20
Year of Founding: 2018
Development Stage (e.g. Beta, fully operational): fully operational
CEO (or equiv): Michael Grupp
CTO (or equiv): Michael Huebl
Main external investors, if any: NA
Target Market: General Counsel, Law Firms, Accounting Firms
Main Legal Jurisdictions in which you currently operate: Germany, Europe
Reference Clients: Baker McKenzie, Association of German Lawyers
Pricing Model(s): Annual License Fees
Software Configuration (e.g. cloud; on-site installation): Cloud, On-Site
Security Standards (e.g. ISO Cert, or other): ISO Certificate, Germany Data Security, EU Privacy Compliant
Company Description:
BRYTER is a no-code, AI-powered toolset to turn expert knowledge into interactive modules.
The company has acquired the software core built by the legal tech pioneer Lexalgo and the European Space Agency and has combined the expert system shell with state-of-the-art frontend.
What is your core product’s key selling point?
It only takes 4 easy steps for lawyers, auditors, consultants and other knowledge professionals to build, accelerate, scale, sell and analyze their knowledge.
Users can enrich decision trees with logic and rules with BRYTER’s no-code editor. BRYTER allows to effortlessly manage complex, professional decision structures and automate your workflows.
Main contact email: https://www.bryter.io/contact
Twitter (or other social media): @BRYTER_io
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Josef
Core Product(s): Legal automation platform
Main Technology: expert system; conversational user interface; document automation
Key Use Cases: intake and triage; automated legal services (both public-facing and custom); workflow automation; document automation; marketing and lead generation; community legal education
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HQ: Melbourne, Australia
Other Offices: New York
Total Staff (approx.): 6
Year of Founding: 2018
Development Stage (e.g. Beta, fully operational): Fully operational
CEO (or equiv): Tom Dreyfus
CTO (or equiv): Kirill Kliavin
Main external investors, if any: N/A
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Target Market: lawyers, in-house counsel, law firms and government/legal aid
Main Legal Jurisdictions in which you currently operate: Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Reference Clients: Herbert Smith Freehills; American Bar Association; Baker McKenzie; Betterment; Future Super
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Pricing Model(s): Monthly subscription fee
Software Configuration (e.g. cloud; on-site installation): Cloud
Security Standards (e.g. ISO Cert, or other):
- Josef’s data centres are ISO 27001
- All data at rest is encrypted using AES-256. All data in transit is encrypted using TLS 1.2.
- Josef uses best practice, secure coding guidelines and automated testing tools such as SAST and SCA.
Company Description:
Josef is a ‘next generation’ legal automation platform and an intuitive and engaging interface between lawyers and clients.
Josef enables lawyers to automate legal services and workflows on its no-coding-required platform; just click, type, drag and drop to create conversational legal bots. Josef’s workflow builder integrates with a powerful document automation editor, supporting the generation of personalised legal documents, like letters, agreements and forms.
Designed by lawyers, for lawyers, Josef is the legal automation platform for every lawyer to use in their day-to-day work. Josef works across the legal industry, from global top-tier commercial firms to personal injury firms to local community legal centres.
What is your core product’s key selling point?
Josef is truly easy-to-use. Any lawyer, anywhere, can pick it up and start building; no training modules, no user manuals. Lawyers know what their clients need; Josef gives them the platform to build it.
But Josef is not just a legal automation platform. The key to a tech-enabled legal industry is a client-centric approach, which is why Josef has built an engaging and intuitive conversational interface for clients to access digital legal products wherever and whenever they need them.
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URL: https://joseflegal.com/
Main contact email: tom@joseflegal.com
Twitter (or other social media): @joseflegal
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LawDroid
Core Product(s): Reception Bot, Paralegal Bot, and Legal Health Check Bot
Main Technology: Chatbot, NLP, ML
Key Use Cases:
Customer Engagement / Lead Conversion
Client Intake / Case Management
Legal Issue Triage / Diagnosis
HQ: Vancouver, Canada
Other Offices: NA
Total Staff (approx.): 4
Year of Founding: 2016
Development Stage (e.g. Beta, fully operational): Beta, Initial Customers
CEO (or equiv): Tom Martin
CTO (or equiv): NA
Main external investors, if any: Legal Services Corporation
Target Market: Lawyers and Law Firms
Main Legal Jurisdictions in which you currently operate: United States, Canada, Europe
Reference Clients:
Patrick Palace, Palace Law, https://www.palacelaw.com/
Megan Zavieh, Zavieh Law, http://zaviehlaw.com/
The Commons Law Center, https://thecommonslawcenter.org/
Pricing Model(s): Monthly recurring subscription
Software Configuration (e.g. cloud; on-site installation): Cloud-based
Security Standards (e.g. ISO Cert, or other): SSL, GDPR
Company Description:
LawDroid is a Legal AI company that creates useful bots to help legal professionals get more done in less time. Our clients include small and medium-sized law firms, legal aid organizations and enterprise legal companies. Founded in 2016, LawDroid is based in Vancouver, Canada with clients around the globe. A percentage of LawDroid’s revenues go to its “Justice Everywhere” initiative dedicated to eliminating the access to justice gap. LawDroid has been featured in Artificial Lawyer, Lawyerist, Forbes, and Above the Law. It is a member of the MaRS accelerator program and a Fastcase 50 winner.
What is your core product’s key selling point?
We help legal professionals eliminate the busy work with the help of AI and automation.
Main contact email: tom@lawdroid.com
Twitter (or other social media): @lawdroid
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Neota Logic
Core Product(s): Neota Logic System; automation software for legal services
Main Technology (e.g. NLP/ML; expert system): expert system, document & process automation and third-party ML processing through API, data analytics & visualisation
Key Use Cases (e.g. doc review; risk assessment, research): new case intake and analysis, triage and routing, document review automation, document assembly, e2e document lifecycle automation, legal self-service applications, automated compliance systems, multi-jurisdictional analysis.
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HQ: New York
Other Offices: London, Melbourne
Total Staff (approx.): 70+
Year of Founding: 2009
Development Stage (e.g. Beta, fully operational): Fully operational
CEO (or equiv): John Lord
CTO (or equiv): Julian Uebergang, Howard Robinson
Main external investors, if any: NA
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Target Market: General Counsel, Legal Operations, Law Firms, Tax Advisors, Audit and Accounting
Main Legal Jurisdictions in which you currently operate: All major markets.
Reference Clients: Refer to client announcements and success stories http://www.neotalogic.com/
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Pricing Model(s): Monthly license fee for access to development tools and professional services.
Software Configuration (e.g. cloud; on-site installation): Cloud in AWS and Azure (from Sept 2018)
Security Standards (e.g. ISO Cert, or other): All recognised standards are supported.
Company Description:
Neota is the world’s leading no-code automation platform for professional services. Our revolutionary app development software allows professionals to rapidly automate any aspect of your expert services and enjoy the benefits of improved productivity, client satisfaction and new opportunities. Neota offers its software and services to customers from its offices in New York, London and Melbourne.
What is your core product’s key selling point?
Neota Logic System (NLS) is a comprehensive platform for legal services automation, offering ‘no-code’ tools to automate expert legal reasoning, end-to-end processes and document lifecycle. NLS authoring tools allow for rapid prototyping and easy maintenance of applications along with ‘API’ integration with a wide variety of third-party Ai and traditional technologies.
Main contact email: tear@neotalogic.com
Twitter (or other social media): @NeotaLogic