Springbok AI has today (11 June) announced the general launch of SpringLaw, a LLM-agnostic no-code solution that enables law firms and legal professionals to get started with generative AI, configure tools to their specific workflows, and build out practice toolkits. Early customers include Charles Russell Speechlys, where director of innovation Joe Cohen is continuing to work with Springbok, having joined from Dentons in November last year.
SpringLaw consists of three modules: new Wizards functionality; Chat functionality that was previously called Springbok GPT; and Tables.
Firms with technological resources such as legal engineers and data scientists can configure and create custom tools directly via SpringLaw Wizards. Configurers provide “context” in the form of documents and “directions” in the form of background prompts, enabling practices to create and share templated document generators, assistants, and workflow automations. Alternatively, firms and GCs can partner with Springbok AI for its concierge service.
Speaking to Legal IT Insider, Springbok’s senior account executive Edward Stevens said: “The option you have as an organisation is either you use the Wizards with your own teams, so some firms have legal engineers and big teams that can really start to leverage that information they already have in-house and turn these into custom tools. The other way is we do it in collaboration with teams, so they can come to us and say, ‘We need this tool built for us. How do we actually produce that?’ And we’re able to produce them really quickly now. We do workshops with firms where we can spend a morning with a practice area. And at the end of that time period, we’ve built probably three or four mini assistants and tools that the practice can start to work with and that are really unique to them. This isn’t a generic thing but takes account of the ways they like to work.”
Chats enables legal professionals to work with multiple documents at once. You can use Springbok’s existing prompts or create a bespoke library for your firm and ‘talk’ to your documents, summarise them and create first pass drafts.
The final piece, which will be available in Q3 of this year, is Tables, which provides the ability to interact with up to 250 documents simultaneously in tabular format. Stevens said: “If I want to look at 200 documents, and say which of these is relevant or which of these leases has a value of over £5000 pounds and is also going to need review in the next six months, I can run those 200 documents at once, and it will give me answers. I can filter them to ‘yes, no’, for example. I can then say, for example, ‘I only now want to filter and work to the ones that said yes to that,’ and it will then concentrate only on those documents, which you can continue to work with in a tabular form.”
Stevens says that SpringLaw is LLM agnostic and that firms can decide what model they use, although Microsoft Azure AI Services is typically what they use.
Cohen, who while at Dentons built private ChatGPT tool Fleet AI with Springbok AI, said: “There’s a lot to be said for building your own tools on top of foundational models that exist on the market. Ultimately, our goal is to leverage generative AI to build client solutions.”
He adds: “Most generative AI technology options are either too broad or too specific, with little scope for customisation. We needed a secure generative AI platform to create prompts and tools that are customised to us, and for the platform to be easy to use and collaborate on – SpringLaw is just that for Charles Russell Speechlys with our new Sidekick platform.”
Springbox cofounder and CEO Victoria Albrecht said: “SpringLaw is the result of 18 months of continuous client feedback integration and iteration; we’ve been optimising the prompt architecture and data pipeline, and grounding SpringLaw in legal data to deliver relevant output for legal work – and now we’re thrilled to share it with the wider market.
“So far, we’ve focused on the Global 200, and we’re pleased to now finally open our waitlist to meet wider demand and be accessible to mid-tier law firms and GCs as well. “
The waitlist to sign up for the general release of SpringLaw will go live on the Springbok website, www.springbok.ai, this Thursday 14th June at the Legal Tech Talk conference. Applications can also be made via email to waitlist@springbok.ai
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