Ever since Casetext released CoCounsel on March 1, 2023, the competition among legal tech companies to develop the most capable generative AI assistant has intensified. Today, vLex has unveiled a significant upgrade to its Vincent AI, positioning it as a potential leader in this rapidly evolving space.
According to materials provided by vLex and a demonstration by Ed Walters, the chief strategy officer at vLex, the enhanced Vincent AI now offers notable improvements. Instead of positioning it as a mere AI legal assistant, vLex describes the new Vincent as an AI workflow assistant designed to augment, not replace, the work of legal professionals by streamlining and enhancing their workflows.
- Vincent AI expands its AI-assisted workflows from four to twelve.
- The upgrade shifts its capabilities to include both litigation and transactional workflows.
- Three additional countries—France, Portugal, and Brazil—are now covered.
- New user-friendly features such as a prompt assistant and multi-turn conversations have been added.
- Enhanced functionalities to work with collections of documents, including integration with federal and state court dockets through Docket Alarm.
Notably, these upgrades augment Vincent AI’s recognition by the American Association of Law Libraries, having been named the 2024 New Product of the Year, the first generative AI tool to receive this accolade from the AAII.
The updated Vincent AI now includes a suite of advanced workflows such as contract analysis, collection exploration, research question addressing, deposition analysis, and argument building. Additionally, it supports the comparison of laws across different jurisdictions, including a 50-state survey for U.S. law, and can find related authorities from vLex’s extensive database.
The recent upgrades also extend to its geographical coverage by incorporating native legal workflows for French and Portuguese law, and adding Brazil, Portugal, and France to its scope.
- Multi-turn conversations allow for deeper analysis and follow-up questions.
- Prompt Assist provides suggestions for using workflow tools more effectively.
- Collections support both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) tasks and batch processing workflows.
Additionally, Vincent AI’s integration with Docket Alarm allows for more comprehensive insights within state and federal court dockets, facilitated by new APIs developed for large-scale docket data access.
Robin Chesterman, vLex’s global head of product, remarked that the new version of Vincent AI represents a platform evolution for vLex, which now identifies itself as a “legal intelligence company,” a term better capturing its broadened functionality and scope.