Last month Steven Schwartz, a NY lawyer with decades of experience, filed a lawsuit full of ChatGPT hallucinations and may soon face sanctions. Thanks to ZKS law firm for the attached article, and the useful teaching moment. ChatGPT and other foundation models alone produce very “meaningful” output, but not truthful output. With some engineering, however, companies are attaching outside tools to foundation models, like ChatGPT, and claim that the resulting systems generate accurate legal research.
Lawyers need to be sharing and investigating the flaws and the usefulness of these specialist legal AI systems. Let me know if your firm created a bespoke AI system that works with your local documents or has tested any of this current list of legal AI systems:
Claims to (i) review documents and answer related questions with citations (ii) prepare for depositions (iii) search databases for legal questions (iv) create legal research memos with citations (v) summarize legal documents (vi) analyze contracts for answers and relevant clauses and (vii) find clauses in a contract that don’t comply with a policy or a set of policies.
Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, CoCounsel was first used by the U.S. law firm Fisher Phillips in 2022 and is currently available in the United States. It's unclear if it is available in other countries. You can access it via the link above.
Claims to (i) browse for information and insights on contracts (ii) filter and search for specific pieces of information within a contract (iii) review for variations or standards and (iv) use a firm’s own contracts to draw insights, such as a firm’s most frequently used clauses.
Powered by GPT-3, Henchman is currently available for use through Microsoft Word or Outlook. Henchman is available for firms in Europe and may be available in other jurisdictions. You can request a demo via the link above.
Claims to (i) simplify the contract creation process (ii) review and negotiate during contract review and (iii) ask questions about contracts.
Powered by Anthropic's LLMs, Robin AI is currently available via the link above. Available jurisdictions are unstated but presumably include the UK and the United States.
Claims to (i) assist in the contract drafting process by providing contextual recommendations (ii) draft and revise contracts and (iii) avoid risky phrases.
Powered by ChatGPT, presumably, AMTO is currently available for use through Microsoft Word or Outlook via the link above, presumably in the United States and possibly in other jurisdictions.
Claims to assist with (i) contract analysis (ii) due diligence (iii) litigation (iv) regulatory compliance and (v) insights, recommendations, and predictions.
Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4, the system is currently being tested by both PwC and Allen & Overy. It is unclear when Harvey will debut publicly, but you can add your firm to the waiting list for a demo via the link above. It’s also unclear the jurisdictions in which Harvey AI will be available, but presumably starting in the United States.
Claims to (i) answer complex legal questions (ii) access to Practical Law (iii) answer complex tax and accounting questions (iv) perform legal document review and summary in seconds and (v) perform legal drafting.
Copilot will presumably be powered by Microsoft foundation models (e.g., OpenAI's GPT-4). It will be available in Microsoft Word together with Microsoft Copilot (and also in Westlaw, Practical Law and Drafting) in the second half of 2023, presumably starting in the United States.