Last week, international legal research vendor vLex introduced its new research tool powered by AI, Vincent. Vincent works much like CARA from Casetext, EVA from Ross Intelligence, and Clerk from Judicata. Vincent allows users to upload a brief, court opinion, or other legal document for analysis. The system looks at the language used and any citations within the document to find related materials including cases, statutes, secondary sources, and more. Vincent is currently in its beta testing phase and use is by invitation only. One of the unique features of Vincent is that it can recognize documents in both English and Spanish, and provides results from 9 different countries including the U.S., Mexico, Spain, Chile, Colombia, and Canada. There are plans to increase the number of countries included in the future. vLex is making a push into the U.S. market, where it has previously been perceived as a legal resource for foreign law. https://blog.vlex.com/introducing-vincent-the-first-intelligent-legal-research-assistant-of-its-kind-bf14b00a3152
Oh No! Not MORE Amazon!
It looks like Amazon is getting into the peer-review business and they will even use AI to make sure the reviews are authentic. Take a look.
The Other Side of the Coin?
Publishers Weekly has an interesting story about some big publishers and how 2017 treated them. I admit I have never given much thought to how slow and/or flat sales might impact publishers. Luckily someone can make me with just a blog post.
The Future of Legal Publishing
There was a very interesting post this week on Slaw, Canada’s online legal magazine. For a discussion on trends in legal and professional publishing see Robert McKay, The Future of Legal Publishing.
Margie Maes
AALL Vendor Liaison
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Matthew Bender closing its doors
Albany-based legal publisher Matthew Bender announced Tuesday that it is closing its doors. The company’s owner, LexisNexis, will start layoffs at the 1275 Broadway office starting in mid-April and eventually shutter its offices by the end of 2014, eliminating 220 jobs, according to a noticed filed with the state Labor Department. Employees were notified on Tuesday.
See this article from the Albany Times-Union.
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