💥 This 10-year, 'overnight success' was just acquired for $650,000,000, and is poised to completely disrupt the legal industry. 💥

Here's the fascinating story of Casetext and its founder, Jake Heller

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The Miami-Dade County Public Defender's Office is using CoCounsel, our AI legal assistant, for research, deposition prep, and drafting.

100 attorneys in the Miami-Dade office—which handles 70k+ cases annually—began beta testing CoCounsel six months ago.

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In the News 📰

In the wake of its 40th exoneration, CA Innocence Project (CIP) at CWSL continues to make news. Forbes published an article detailing CIP’s recent collaboration with the AI-software developer, Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters 's CoCounsel - citing CWSL Campus News.

McGuireWoods will utilize CoCounsel, a first-of-its-kind #AI #legalassistant developed by Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters and powered by OpenAI’s latest and most advanced large language model, GPT-4. tinyurl.com/5cemx8j2 #artificialintelligence #LLM

Now we build.
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Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters has built an amazing AI-powered legal assistant that now will have much broader reach through Thomson Reuters. Rapid innovation is coming to the legal sector via generative AI. Congrats!

Several business and tech articles have already been published on the $650M acquisition of Casetext, announced last night. I wanted to offer up a seemingly trivial memory from 8 years ago that sums up how I think Casetext hit a home run.

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'While its focus has changed over the years, one characteristic has not: From the very start, Casetext was an innovator, always pushing the envelope for what a legal tech product and company should look like. By doing that, it has been always a trailblazer, never a follower.'

'[W]e’re going to see a real evolution in what we think of as a lawyer’s value to a client—being truly consultative and advisory, being strategic, being able to provide deep substantive domain expertise relating to markets,' -- Laura Safdie to Law.com. Article below 👇

Proud of our work with CA Innocence Project. Great interview: cwsl.edu/news/campus/ca…

'There's a big difference between using it correctly and using it incorrectly...You can't just go to a chatbot and ask it for legal research.'

Pablo Arredondo, co-founder at Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters, joins Rosemarie Miller on Forbes Talks to discuss Casetext. trib.al/pcsXj7z

'I'm eternally grateful for the chance to have gotten to work with OpenAI and for the work that they're doing.'
Pablo Arredondo, co-founder at Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters, joins Rosemarie Miller on Forbes Talks to discuss AI for lawyers. trib.al/pcsXj7z

Our weekly show and tells are ridiculous. We literally 180 from new marketing workflows to product design prototypes to a data science phd explaining new applications for existing AI to a lawyer-software-engineer demo'ing CoCounsel skills!

An immense amount of effort goes into making large language models work for legal use cases.

This post series explains some of the work and techniques we use to get GPT4 to do legal tasks over large corpora of documents, without hallucination, and with a daily updating database

We've created an AI legal assistant lawyers can rely on. And we're transparent about what it does and how we built it.

In our blog post, we explain how our team harnessed the power of GPT-4 to build #CoCounsel , AI that produces reliable results.

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Legal research memos, document review, deposition preparation and contract analysis—all in minutes. The Washington Post explores how the Employment Law Center of Maryland uses #CoCounsel to better serve more clients and help close the access to justice gap.

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“Candidly, I think our first reaction [to CoCounsel] involves some expletives… then we really dug in and started using it… That time saving, it means money saved for clients and law firms… For us, we can help more people, because we have more time.”
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Great article in Washington Post about how Employment Law Center of Maryland is leveraging CoCounsel
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Today’s The Wall Street Journal explores how #CoCounsel is reshaping legal practice. Our Fortune 50 partners Microsoft & Ford Motor—and top firms DLA Piper, Kirkland & Ellis, Skadden, and Orrick—played key roles as beta testers. Read about CoCounsel's progress since then.

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National law firm Dykema announced they will use CoCounsel to empower their attorneys to deliver exceptional services to clients 'while providing the security and guardrails they expect.'

Learn why Dykema chose #CoCounsel to elevate their practice.

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