Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, today (12 August) announced the general availability and pricing of its GenAI-powered Everlaw Assistant after a year-long beta program with about 125 companies and 2,900 users. One of the biggest advances, according to Everlaw’s founder and CEO AJ Shankar, is Everlaw Assistant’s impact on the potentially lengthy and costly discovery process.
The opportunity for GenAI to drive greater efficiency in litigation is vast. Large companies in the US alone spent $23B on litigation in 2021 and up to 70% of those costs are consumed by discovery work where legal teams decipher millions of documents to start building cases.
Everlaw’s team of AI experts has spent the past year testing, quantifying and refining the controllable variables in GenAI applications. Features include:
- Searching within the ‘four-corners of the document’ to minimize hallucinations
- Making results verifiable with cited source documents
- Labeling GenAI content vs. human-generated content in written materials as some court orders now request and future regulation may require
The new features include coding suggestions to help users find relevant or responsive documents faster; review assistant, to provide document summaries; and topic, sentiment and entity extraction.
“Everlaw Assistant is an advance for one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of litigation and investigations – discovery,” said Shankar. “While it’s still early days of Gen AI, our adopters have applied it as they would a ‘smart intern,’ making significant impacts on real-world cases.”
Julie Brown, director of practice technology at Vorys, said: “Everlaw combines the best of traditional AI with the strengths of Gen AI. We use Everlaw’s predictive coding to pull important docs from a corpus. Everlaw AI Assistant summarizes documents to improve our review rates, shaving off hours for the team. Then we organize the most important documents in Storybuilder as we prepare our case strategy. Having AI embedded in the ediscovery workflow drives efficiency. Everlaw Review Assistant stands out in its ability to summarize long, dense documents – over 100 pages, which is key for lengthy depositions.” She added: “We’ve used Writing Assistant to draft a statement of facts and deposition questions based on my guidance with quality output– saving us time. Top to bottom Everlaw software, support and training materials are incredible.”