Today, successful startup Kili Technology Inc. officially launched davinci, a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology tool which drafts patents and office action answers in a fraction of the time that manual methods require.

Patent descriptions and office action answers have always been laborious and time-consuming, often requiring IP lawyers to spend dozens of hours drafting them. Pressure from corporate clients to work faster and smarter has made IP law firms place a new emphasis on technology automation. Enter davinci – the most highly performant and secure Patent AI copilot available.

How davinci Works
For patent drafting, davinci ingests text and drawings such as claims written by the attorney, the invention disclosure, conversation(s) with the inventor, and prior arts to generate a robust, detailed patent and drawing description that fits the required style. IP lawyers can then edit davinci’s draft based on their preferences.

For responding to office actions, davinci processes both the patent application and prior art cited by the examiner. The software evaluates the strength of the arguments and makes a recommendation to the attorney whether to counter them or refine the claims accordingly.

The davinci tool allows IP law firms to deliver better patent and office action answers  dramatically and more efficiently with lower operational risk. Early adopters of davinci, a hand-picked group of top 100 IP law firms in North America and Europe, have reported major time savings of up to 50% with its assistance. davinci frees up IP lawyers’ time to focus on more substantial legal work and better quality patents.

“AI-assisted drafting promises to assist patent professionals by removing some of the lower added value time spent drafting parts of a patent application. The ability to feed a set of claims, drawings, and background material into davinci and receive a fleshed-out specification is a significant time saver. This will enable patent professionals to spend more time with their clients to understand their business. In turn, a better understanding of a client’s business results in more focused applications, and a more effective overall IP strategy.  Quality of the output is an essential component of a successful AI-assisted drafting tool.” – Louis-Pierre Gravelle, IP Expert and Partner at Bereskin & Parr.

davinci is a Microsoft Azure partner and operates on Azure’s cloud infrastructure, which is universally trusted by law firms. Highly secure, davinci adheres to the most demanding security requirements including SOC II Type 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, as well as GDPR data privacy requirements. Highly confidential, davinci has a Zero Data Retention API, does not use clients’ data for training purposes, and adheres to a strict data segregation policy.

“We named davinci after enduring icon Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest inventor of all time in the realms of creativity, science and technology, to show our tremendous respect for the invention process and intellectual property,” remarked François-Xavier (FX) Leduc, co-founder and CEO of Kili Technology. “The davinci patent generation and prosecution software tool is a symbol of innovation, ingenuity, multidisciplinary thinking, and visionary foresight, which we believe Leonardo would have leveraged if he were alive today. It is time for IP to be revolutionized by data-driven AI tools like davinci, which are assertively driving the rapid pace of technology forward to meet the industry’s rising demands for technology collaboration.”

Availability
davinci is currently inviting law firms in North America and Europe to join the davinci waitlist to deploy the technology, which is by invitation-only for the next several months.

davinci will be demonstrating its Patent AI Copilot and meeting with law firms and media at ALM’s Legalweek New York 2024 conference from January 29 – February 1 at the New York Hilton Midtown (booth#1224).

For more information about davinci or to apply for joining the waitlist, visit https://www.getdavinci.ai/ or email contact thomas@getdavinci.ai.

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Evolve represents major leap forward for the translation industry

CHALFONT ST PETER, UK – 25 January 2024 – Following a successful beta program involving Dell and several other industry leaders, RWS announces the availability of Evolve, a groundbreaking linguistic AI solution which offers significant efficiency gains for global enterprises with substantial translation demands. Evolve signifies a major leap forward for the translation industry, integrating human and artificial intelligence, revolutionizing translation processes and the time it takes to achieve high quality results.

During the beta program, RWS has enhanced Evolve through using client feedback and by adding its own translation management system to the solution. RWS’s language services, which include 1,750+ in-house language specialists and domain experts, are deployed as part of the solution – which continually learns and self-improves, ensuring optimal translation outcomes.

“Evolve is the industry-first solution embodying Genuine Intelligence, a fusion of human and artificial intelligence, that helps global enterprises stay ahead of their overwhelming content challenges,” said Thomas Labarthe, President of Language & Content Technology at RWS.

Evolve combines RWS’s language services with its translation management system (Trados Enterprise) and its neural machine translation technology (Language Weaver) alongside language specialist-trained quality estimation and a finely tuned private large language model. This powerful combination helps global companies achieve near-instant, human-like translation quality, allowing RWS’s language specialists to focus their unique skills and cultural expertise on the content that requires their attention.

“Dell has always focused on continuous innovation, which is why we were excited to participate in the Evolve beta program,” commented Wayne Bourland, Director of Translation at Dell. “RWS has created a groundbreaking linguistic AI solution that addresses the ever-growing translation challenges presented by large content volumes, enabling us to engage international audiences faster.”

The Evolve linguistic AI solution is currently available in several language pairs – with more to come in 2024. To check if you qualify to benefit from Evolve click here.

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Onit is pleased to help sponsor the 2024 Legalweek in New York City. Please join us to learn how we can help you build a better way to work with OnitX, an AI-enabled workflow automation platform that enables business teams to work how they want to work — today and tomorrow.

We provide premium workflow automation experiences for sophisticated, legal-related business processes such as e-billing/legal spend management, matter management, legal holds, legal vendor management, legal service management, and contract lifecycle management.

Please join us for one (or all) of these activities.

Third Floor Promenade Kiosk

Visit Onit’s unique kiosk on the third-floor promenade for custom demonstrations of the solutions hosted on the AI-enabled OnitX platform: legal spend management, matter management, legal hold management, contract lifecycle management, purpose-built workflow apps, and more.

Share your ideas at our kiosk on how to build a better way to work and enter a Tuesday AND Wednesday drawing for the brand-new Bose QuietComfort Ultra Earbuds.

Schedule a demo ahead of time and choose either a MiiR 12 oz. Vacuum Insulated Tumbler or a travel-sized Executive Umbrella for the NYC January rains!

Booth 1218 – 2nd Floor Expo

Experience the new Onit Catalyst for Contracts as it augments and accelerates contract workflows by seamlessly incorporating cutting-edge AI-driven tools into every stage of pre- and post-signature contract management.

Compete to win a Meta Quest 2:

Work with the Catalyst for Contracts built-in virtual contracts paralegal to complete a short series of contract review tasks. The fastest time wins a Meta Quest 2 (one winner on Tuesday AND Wednesday).

VIEW A 15-MINUTE PRODUCT DEMO SESSION

Want to get a view of how Onit products address real-world use cases? Sign up for any of the following 15-minute demonstration sessions at the Onit kiosk on the 3rd floor promenade.

Tuesday, January 30 at 1:30 PM

Virtual Legal Ops Assistant (NEW!)

See how you can use GenAI within Microsoft Outlook to automate legal tasks like legal service request creation and get visibility to existing matters and contracts in the OnitX platform.

Tuesday, January 30 at 1:30 PM

Building Workflow Automation Apps

See how Onit’s business process automation platform empowers large enterprises to easily create, modify and deploy workflow solutions that solve real business problems.

Wednesday, January 31 at 11:00 AM

Catalyst for Contracts (NEW!)

See Onit’s new Catalyst for Contracts in action as it augments and accelerates pre- and post-signature contract activities, seamlessly integrated where you work.

Wednesday, January 31 at 11:00 AM

Virtual Legal Ops Assistant (NEW!)

See how you can use GenAI within Microsoft Outlook to automate legal tasks like legal service request creation and get visibility to existing matters and contracts in the OnitX platform.

Attend one of these sessions and choose a MiiR 12 oz. Vacuum Insulated Tumbler or a travel-sized Executive Umbrella for the NYC January rains.

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We’re excited to share that Priori was named a finalist in three categories for the much-anticipated 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. Priori co-founders, Basha Rubin, CEO, and Mirra Levitt, Chief Product Officer, were recognized in the Innovators of the Year category, and Priori was also nominated for the Legal Operations and New Law Company of the Year categories. These nominations for the 2024 awards follow Priori’s win last year in the New Law Company of the Year category.

“We are so honored by these nominations, particularly being nominated for Law Company of the Year after winning the category last year,” commented Basha Rubin, CEO and Co-Founder, Priori. “The last year has been another whirlwind for us – between adding legal operations professionals to our Marketplace to incorporating AI within Scout to make it more efficient. We’re looking forward to joining the legal technology community at the show in January, and we congratulate all of the nominees on this honor.”

This caps off an eventful year in which Priori achieved a series of milestones, not the least of which was our win for New Law Company of the Year at the 2023 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards. Some of those notable achievements include:

The 2024 Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards honor individuals and organizations for their achievements in innovation over the past year in a wide range of categories across law firms, legal departments and technology providers. Winners will be announced at the in-person awards ceremony as part of Legalweek on January 29, 2024. The Priori team will be at the show, so please don’t hesitate to reach out if you’ll be there!

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Today ProSearch announced two innovations designed to help organizations tackle high-volume case data and privacy compliance in legal discovery. Both initiatives were developed by the ProSearch Linguistics, Analytics, and Data Science (LADS) team in collaboration with clients.

ProSearch’s generative AI solutions for review are very effective because they bring practical value and time savings to the work of document review, assuring that reviewers can quickly understand the material and make informed, confident decisions.

“The LADS team is on fire with practical applications of generative AI,” says Gina Taranto, director of applied sciences at ProSearch. “After years of delivering solutions powered by deep learning and large language models, we are finding that generative AI supports new types of creativity and versatility for discovering and delivering insights. We’ve just scratched the surface on these advances, and we’re excited to take on more challenges in leveraging AI to support the conversion of complex legal data into deep knowledge.”

Identify and Manage PII with ProSearch Privacy Suite

ProSearch also announced the addition of a new user interface and dashboard in Privacy Suite, to help eDiscovery and compliance teams identify and address PXI in datasets. ProSearch Privacy Suite uses text and image classifiers to identify over 30 types of personal and private information to support eDiscovery redactions, DSAR request fulfillment, data breach response, and other privacy regulations.

The ProSearch team will be on-site at Legalweek 2024 in New York, from January 29 to February 1. Organizations and law firms are invited to contact ProSearch to request a meeting.

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Onit Catalyst AI technology within the OnitX platform boosts productivity and sharpens the decision-making of corporate legal teams

Houston, TX – January 23, 2024 – Onit, the leading provider of legal workflow solutions, today announced the launch of its groundbreaking Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Operations within OnitX, a workflow automation platform for sophisticated, legal-related business processes. Legal professionals can now use natural language chat to access a new, powerful level of intelligence enabled by generative AI that simplifies and automates everyday legal tasks from within their most-used productivity software — Microsoft Outlook.

“The continuous and rising demand on legal teams as the protector of the business has brought significant challenges for operational scalability.  Our objective with Onit Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Operations was simple —leverage the strength of generative AI to make relevant information easily accessible so the best action can be taken quickly,” said Mary Fuzat, Onit Senior Vice President of Product. “With Catalyst Virtual Assistant, the power of insights from the OnitX platform is brought right to a user’s desktop in Microsoft Outlook.”

The OnitX plugin for Microsoft Outlook has been enhanced with Catalyst Virtual Assistant to serve as a “bridge” to the new generative AI capability now built into OnitX. Users can more easily collaborate with workflows that provide compliance and control over legal processes, access information stored across different OnitX applications, and minimize time spent on mundane tasks.

The Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Ops empowers users to:

  • Automatically populate legal service and contract requests.
  • Instantly surface related matters, contracts, and legal service requests.
  • Answer questions based on legal service request, matter, and contract data stored within the OnitX platform using natural language chat.
  • Rapidly draft follow-up emails and review/summarize in the context of your legal matters and requests.
  • Translate different languages to support your global business.

The combination of the proven OnitX platform that has hosted hundreds of workflow automation apps and Onit’s deep legal expertise, as represented by the millions of legal interactions processed annually, 3,000+ customers, and $47B of legal spend data, is unique in the legal technology landscape. As a result, OnitX provides corporate legal leaders with a distinct means to boost productivity, ensure better decisions and outcomes, and provide intuitive access to the latest technologies that are practical and enterprise-grade.

“We initially introduced the Onit Catalyst Virtual Assistant last fall to serve as a digital contract paralegal that reviews and edits contracts on Legal’s behalf,” said Nick Whitehouse, Managing Director of Onit’s AI Center of Excellence. “The Onit Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Ops is the continuation of our strategy to build meaningful AI into workflows – automating a huge number of legal tasks and scaling knowledge across legal organizations in a controlled and impactful way. These virtual assistants demonstrate how the OnitX platform is at the forefront of this new era of AI-augmented work.”

Learn more about the Catalyst Virtual Assistant for Legal Operations between January 30 – February 1 at Legalweek New York 2024, where the company will offer live demonstrations of all its enterprise legal management, contract lifecycle management, and business process automation solutions.

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This whitepaper serves as a guide to help you make the most of the eDiscovery capabilities currently available from Microsoft. This can help you adopt an efficient workflow to better manage risk and cost by quickly finding relevant content to satisfy eDiscovery requirements related to internal investigations, legal and regulatory requests.

Click for white paper.

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A Q&A with Matt Wheatley, VP of Client Development at Priori

Matt Wheatley, VP of Client Development at Priori, has a unique perspective on alternative career paths for attorneys: Not only did he take one himself, starting his career practicing law and eventually moving into legal staffing and now business development at Priori, but he has also spent years working with attorneys and helping them pursue paths outside of the traditional model. In this Q&A, Matt shares some career advice for legal professionals looking to explore all of their options and reflects on his experiences as a practicing and nonpracticing lawyer.

The traditional legal career path can be limiting for many people, but it’s also a known quantity so it feels safe to follow. Looking back at your experience in law school, how do you think people can start to explore alternative legal career paths?

I think the reality is a lot of 22-year-olds are not thinking intentionally about law school. I went to law school because it seemed like the next logical step. Now, with the experience I have, there are a few things I would say that potential law students should do.

We should take a page from what most people who get their MBA do: They get real-world practical experience before they apply to go to business school. There are existing paths for people to take that approach in the legal industry. You can be a paralegal. There are programs for people who have just graduated, typically from top-notch undergrads, to go and work at the top firms and get a couple of years of experience while they decide whether or not to go to law school.

While that may not be feasible for the kid who went to University of Kentucky, like me, or another big state school that may not have the prestige to draw an offer from a big firm out of undergrad, there are other options too. You could work in a local law firm which very likely could be a litigation practice and you’ll get to see what that looks like.

And, increasingly, there’s an opportunity to work as a legal operations professional out of school. For example, getting a job as a legal ops coordinator at a medium or large-sized company that is starting to think more intentionally about how they run their legal department. Another option is to work at a legaltech company like Priori. Our Attorney Network team has been a feeder to lots of great law schools. They’re interacting with lawyers and getting to see what their life looks like and their quality of life and earning potential.

And, ultimately, you may find you don’t want to go to law school. You can be a legal operations professional or a corporate paralegal and make a great living just by staying on that path. So you can be in legal with or without your law degree.

You started off on a traditional legal career path but then went an alternative route. What made you pursue that path?

I almost went to work at a big legal recruiting firm right out of law school. But one of the people I met there during the recruiting process gave me some advice and said that I should take the opportunity to get some practice experience. He didn’t want me to jump into recruiting and a few years later be wondering whether I would have been happier as a practicing lawyer. At the time, I didn’t really care about being a practicing lawyer; I just wanted to live in New York. But I took that advice to heart even though I didn’t want to and I practiced for about a year and a half after law school.

I kept in touch with the person who gave me that advice and eventually they reached out again to revisit the conversation. As a lawyer, I wasn’t unhappy—I was doing some interesting things—but I still wanted to move to New York and I was in a better place financially and with my personal relationships to make the move. I certainly didn’t know that I was moving into something that could be just as fulfilling as a legal career can be, but I got lucky. I also ended up working under someone who was a fantastic mentor and boss and I was surrounded by other great people at the company.

What brought you to Priori?

Working in legal staffing around that time, in 2017, was a far cry from what it is today. It wasn’t as widely accepted in the legal industry and it was still growing. But by 2019, things were really taking off and people in the legal industry were thinking more about how to get work done more efficiently without adding headcount or sending work to large law firms. It started to click for me—what I was doing wasn’t legal staffing, it was helping people and law departments get work done more efficiently at better rates using different models than they previously had access to.

I started to nerd out on this idea and I wanted to be part of something on the cutting edge of this new environment, particularly something that was tech-enabled. I saw how technology was revolutionizing all of these different industries but it wasn’t as dominant in the legal world. That’s when I found Priori and reached out to Basha [Rubin, Priori CEO and Co-Founder,] on LinkedIn. She didn’t respond immediately, but by the time she shot me a message back I had seen more of the news about Priori growing and raising money. I met with her and the rest of the team and decided to join the company.

My move to Priori was kind of the first intentional move of my career. I thought, there is a ton of opportunity in this space and these people are really smart. I’m really thankful for the experience that I serendipitously gained at my previous job and how it forced me to grow because that set me up perfectly to be a part of Priori.

What has been the biggest surprise for you in taking an alternative career path as an attorney?

The biggest surprise for me is being at Priori and seeing that there is so much opportunity in the legal industry that’s not just following this traditional path that I had always looked for in the past. That path was: top law school, top law firm, in-house experience and available for 40-plus hours a week dedicated to a company.

What has been super motivating for me at Priori is to see that there are so many different paths that you can take in this industry that you don’t see every day. You might not see them on LinkedIn or when you’re looking at the background of the general counsel at a Fortune 500 company or an AmLaw 50 law firm partner.

You can go to a Big Law firm, you can get in-house experience and then you can hang up a shingle and be a solo practitioner and make really good money for yourself using the skills that you’ve learned. You can not go to a Big Law firm; you can not go to a law firm at all. You can start a data privacy consulting firm. You can go straight in-house at a tech company and start negotiating commercial contracts. If you can find the right niche and develop the right expertise, there is an opportunity for you to do really well.

There’s no path you have to follow, despite how it sometimes seems in the industry. You’re not doomed if you’re not following exactly what you’ve been told you need to follow because of the pristine examples that you’ve seen in the upper echelons of the industry. That’s been motivating for me working at Priori and seeing people who have taken those paths and helping to facilitate those paths. I have the opportunity to do that in a way I never would have in my previous role and certainly not as a practicing lawyer.

Follow Matt on LinkedIn for more insights into legal industry careers, how technology is changing the legal industry and much more. And if you’re interested in learning more about how Priori helps legal teams of all sizes work more efficiently, find out how it works or start an RFP today.

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