Category: AI

Generative AI Legal Tools – a white paper snapshot

One of the hottest topics in legal technology (really, all of legal practice) is the rise of ChatGPT and other AI-related tools. We’ve already seen an influx of existing and new tools that integrate some form of AI, particularly generative AI tools that allow lawyers to quickly create documents and analyze their work. Over the …

Law Students Assess Pros and Cons of ChatGPT as a Legal Research Tool

Last week, in our first session of Advanced Legal Research at the University of Wisconsin Law school, we discussed ChatGPT as a tool for conducting legal research.  Why take the time to learn and conduct legal research if an AI can do it for you? Our students raised a lot of great points and showed …

ChatGPT Chatbot Can Write Anything from Student Essays to Legal Briefs, but Author and Reader Beware

ChatGPT is a new AI-powered chatbot that answers complex questions conversationally.  This remarkable tool that can assist with a wide range of tasks, from generating humanlike text to providing helpful answers to questions.  This raises huge implications for research, education, business, and much more. “So the best way to think about this is you are …

ScholarSift & JStor Text Analyzer Use AI to Identify Law & Multidisciplinary Articles that You Might Have Missed

ScholarSift is a new resource that legal scholars and law librarians should keep an eye on.  Using artificial intelligence, it analyzes the text and citations of law journal articles to find other relevant law journal articles.  You can either search for articles already in the database or upload your own draft.  It’s designed to identify …

Clearbrief MS Word Add-in Uses AI to Evaluate the Strength of a Brief

Clearbrief is a new brief analysis tool that uses AI to evaluate the strength of the arguments in a brief, identifying how well each sentence is supported by the cited source.  It functions as an add-in to Microsoft Word. From the website: Clearbrief automatically pulls up every factual and legal source you cite to in …