Westlaw Precision Tool

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A Westlaw Precision Tool is a legal research Thomson Reuters product.

  • Context:
    • It can provide AI-Assisted Legal Research through AI-powered features, such as Precision Search, which offers granular filtering by legal issues, outcomes, fact patterns, and more.
    • It can include specialized features like Precision Research and KeyCite Cited With, allowing users to find related cases that do not directly cite each other, enhancing research depth and connectivity.
    • It can offer expanded KeyCite capabilities, such as the KeyCite Overruled in Part feature, which uses a red-striped flag to indicate when a case has been partially overruled and links directly to the affected point of law.
    • It can provide a Graphical View of History that maps out research sessions visually, allowing users to track and revisit their research steps easily.
    • It can include integrated generative AI features via CoCounsel, enabling more sophisticated queries, such as:
      • AI-Assisted Research: Supports natural language queries for complex legal research, producing synthesized answers with links to supporting authority.
      • Prepare for a Deposition: Generates key insights and questions for depositions.
      • Draft Correspondence: Creates draft letters and legal correspondence based on specific factual and legal contexts.
      • Review Documents: Analyzes legal documents and provides detailed overviews.
      • Summarize a Document: Extracts key points from long legal texts.
      • Extract Contract Data: Identifies and extracts essential information from contract clauses.
      • Search a Database: Leverages AI to find relevant documents and cases from large datasets.
    • It can help researchers ask complex legal questions using conversational language rather than traditional keyword searches, reducing the time spent on refining queries.
    • It can be used by Law Firms, Corporate Legal Departments, and Judicial Institutions to streamline legal research, reduce the risk of missing crucial precedents, and improve strategic decision-making.
    • It can incorporate deep editorial enhancements, utilizing the expertise of over 1,000 editors to classify case law by attributes such as Issue Outcome, Fact Pattern, Motion Type, and Party Type.
    • It can represent a significant leap in legal research technology, combining traditional editorial excellence with modern AI and machine learning techniques to deliver unparalleled research precision.
    • It can range from being a core research tool in litigation contexts to an analytical aid for developing strategies and compliance assessments.
    • ...
  • Feature(s):
    • It can include a range of specialized Westlaw Precision Features, such as:
      • Precision Research: Enhancing case search with granular filtering by legal issues, outcomes, fact patterns, and more.
      • Legal Information Search: Providing tools for finding Case Law, statutes, and secondary legal materials.
      • Legal Precedents Analysis: Assisting in identifying, comparing, and applying legal precedents.
      • Drafting Legal Documents: Streamlining the drafting of briefs and legal memoranda with AI-assisted recommendations and citation management.
      • Quick Check: Analyzing uploaded legal documents to surface additional relevant authorities, contradictory precedents, and overlooked arguments.
      • Litigation Analytics: Offering data-driven insights on judges, courts, law firms, and opposing counsel to guide legal strategies.
      • KeyCite Overruling Risk: Identifying when a point of law is undermined due to an overruled decision and linking to relevant parts of the case.
      • Outline Builder: Structuring research findings into organized outlines for easy export into briefs and legal submissions.
      • Keep List/Hide Details: Saving key cases of interest and filtering out less relevant results.
    • ...
  • Example(s):
  • Counter-Example(s):
  • See: Thomson Reuters, Artificial Intelligence in Legal Research, Legal Technology, Case Law Research, Legal Information Retrieval.

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  • GBard
    • Westlaw Precision is a legal research tool that offers a range of features to help you conduct research more efficiently. Some of the key features of Westlaw Precision include:
      • **Precision Research**: This feature allows you to search, filter, and browse more efficiently by discovering important case attributes ¹³. You can run a search that gathers all the potentially relevant cases, then filter your results by legal issue, fact pattern, motion type, outcome, and more ¹.
      • **KeyCite Cited With**: This feature allows you to see related cases that have a pattern of being cited together, even if neither cites the other ¹³.
      • **KeyCite Overruled in Part**: This feature indicates, via a new red-striped flag, that a case has been overruled in part and enables navigation directly to the language in the case discussing the point of law that has been overruled ¹³.
      • **Graphical View of History**: This feature displays a graphical visualization of your research history, mapping out each step and highlighting the searches and documents with more research interaction ¹.
      • **Keep List/Hide Details**: This feature allows you to save cases of interest and hide cases you have determined are not relevant to current research ¹.
      • **Outline Builder**: This feature enables you to organize research with ease by dragging and dropping text into a customizable outline ¹.
      • **Quick Check**: This feature allows you to upload a brief to receive a report that surfaces any bad law, additional highly relevant authority, and authority contrary to what your opponent cited ³.
      • **Litigation Analytics**: This feature provides relevant data-driven insights on judges, courts, attorneys, law firms, damages, and case types so you can better manage client expectations and build the strongest case strategy ³.
      • **KeyCite Overruling Risk**: This feature allows you to quickly determine when a point of law has been implicitly undermined based on its reliance on an overruled or otherwise invalid prior decision ³.
    • Source: Conversation with Bing, 11/27/2023
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      3. Westlaw Precision Has Launched. How Is It Different?. https://huntersquery.byu.edu/westlaw-precision-has-launched-how-is-it-different/.
      4. Westlaw Precision - Unrivaled Legal Research Tool - Thomson Reuters. https://legal.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/westlaw-precision.
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