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vLex are making a selection of authoritative law titles published by WS&H available online for the first time. These books have not been available online before, and vLex will be hosting them exclusively, alongside the primary law collections that they cite.

Bessie O’Dell of the University of Oxford examines the legal issues surrounding the use of copyright music to train LLMs. Spotlight on Large Language Models was the overall winner of the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition.

Rhiannon Victoria Maher of The Open University explores how AI and surveillance tech interact with the 2023 Illegal Migration Act to create a hostile border. _Artificial Intelligence in Asylum Governance_ was the Best in Category winner for the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition category: Immigration.

Isobel Macey-Dare of City, University of London examines the increasing use of surveillance technology in the workplace and its potential to undermine industrial action. _All Eyes on the Strike_ was the Best in Category winner for the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition category: Industrial Action.

Marco Berki of the University of Reading examines the rise of LLMs in legal practice, and the dramatic changes that the legal profession can expect from this rapidly evolving technology. _Legal Market Transformed_ was the Best in Category winner for the 2024 vLex International Writing Competition category: Large Language Models.

vLex is pleased to announce the winners of our International Law and Technology Writing Competition for 2024! Congratulations to Bessie O’Dell for winning the overall prize for her paper on _Copyright Law in the Age of Digital Creativity_, and to our Best in Category winners Marco Berki, Rhiannon Victoria Maher, and Isobel Macey-Dare.

vLex subscribers will soon have access to the new, relaunched, Caribbean Law Review (CLR) through vLex’s intelligent legal research platform, alongside CLR’s previous editions dating back to 1991.

Global Legal Intelligence Innovator Adds Litigation and Transactional GenAI Tools, and vLex Labs, an AI-Focused Co-Development Unit

The American Bar Association (ABA) and vLex today announced a major upgrade to the ABA Antitrust Digital Library on vLex with the launch of the ABA Antitrust Premium Digital Library.

In an era where law firms and legal departments are constantly pursuing efficiency and comprehensive access to legal information, Docket Alarm proudly announces significant enhancements to its suite of features and analytics capabilities. These advancements are designed to refine legal research, case management, and legal business operations. Additionally, we are excited to share news about our latest integration with Foundation.

vLex, a global legal intelligence platform that provides legal professionals with access to the most extensive collection of legal and regulatory material in the world, is excited to announce the formation of a new advanced research and development team dedicated to the exploration and integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in legal technology.

vLex is excited to announce the shortlist for our seventh annual International Law and Technology Writing Competition! We received a huge amount of brilliant submissions across the three categories for 2024 – Immigration, Large Language Models (LLMs), and Industrial Action – and the finalists for each topic are listed below. Congratulations to everyone who was shortlisted!

Docket Alarm has expandedPleading Tags and Motion Analytics in state courts, adding coverage in key counties in Florida and California.

Docket Alarm’s latest integration offers the unparalleled capability for API subscribers to seamlessly connect public litigation data to Litera’s Foundation knowledge management platform.

The New York Times’ copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI should be followed closely by any organization that either uses GenAI-backed tech or collects data to train such tools. The implications of the case for the legal profession remain to be seen, but at the very least, using free-for-all GenAI tools to carry out legal research is looking more and more like a case of ‘you get what you pay for’.

The legal world’s excitement over the research potential of ChatGPT was tempered in 2023 by a spate of judicial warnings about the dangers of ChatGPT’s inaccuracies and hallucinations. The judiciary’s position is clear: lawyers must fact-check AI-generated submissions or face harsh penalties. It’s also clear that GenAI is far less risky when accessed through robust legal research tech – such as Vincent AI with its easy source-checking capabilities and vast dataset of non-hallucinated statutes, regulations, and cases.

From March 6 to 7, law firm leaders, and legal tech innovators – including vLex – will converge at Chapman and Cutler law firm in Chicago for The Legal AI Pathfinder’s Assembly. Attendees can look forward to two days of intense peer-led discussion on strategies that will move them closer to realizing the transformative potential of Legal AI.

Vincent AI’s sophisticated new Analyze Document feature moves it closer to being a lawyer’s complete legal research companion. Using vLex’s carefully designed prompts, lawyers can do a deep interrogation of any legal document to build arguments, conduct legal analyses, and a range of other actions that require legal reasoning ability.

This paper presents an analytical overview of some best-practice strategies for using Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform legal tasks — reducing and resolving concerns such as inaccuracy and confabulations (“hallucinations”) — to realize LLMs’ potential to transform legal practice.

In a much-awaited webinar - Emerging Legal Tech Trends and Predictions for 2024 Webinar, now available to watch online - Damien Riehl (vLex’s VP of Product), Robin Chesterman (vLex’s Global Head of Product, and Dan Ivtsan (Head of Product at Docket Alarm), got together to answer these questions, recap an unusually exciting 2023 driven by ChatGPT bursting onto the scene the previous year, and talk about how vLex is already harnessing the power of Generative AI across products.

Cert, a cutting-edge negative citator tool for Fastcase, empowers legal researchers by swiftly and effortlessly identifying cases that have been treated unfavourably in subsequent decisions, thus providing a comprehensive perspective on a case's precedential value.

vLex, an award-winning legal technology company, is excited to announce a strategic partnership with Emond Publishing, a leading legal publisher in Canada.

Legal tech always moves at a blistering pace, but it’s easy to see that 2023 was one of the most eventful years in the history of the industry. The combination of vLex and Fastcase certainly pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and law. That’s why we’re taking a look back at the end of the year to review everything that’s happened, in one of the most active years ever in the legal information industry.

vLex and James Publishing have today announced a pivotal new partnership that will support practitioners across the US, as well as those around the world conducting business in the United States. As of November 2023, vLex will host and globally distribute over 200 practical law books and archived titles, as well as forms for federal and select states, as part of the brand-new James Publishing collection on vLex.

LegalTech Breakthrough, a leading independent market intelligence organization that evaluates and recognizes standout legal technology companies, products and services around the globe, today announced that global legal intelligence company vLex, has been selected as “Overall Legal Analytics Solution Of The Year” for their Docket Alarm solution in the 4 annual LegalTech Breakthrough Awards program.