Getting started with Everlaw AI Assistant

Everlaw AI Assistant is available as an add-on for Everlaw customers. For more information, please see this webpage.

👋  Welcome to Everlaw AI Assistant! This article provides a high-level overview of available features, with links to deeper dives for each feature. 

  • If you're looking for a general overview Everlaw AI Assistant and information about our privacy and security standards, please see our AI Assistant FAQ. 
  • If you're looking for information about administrative settings and managing Everlaw AI credits, please see this article. 

Overview of features

Feature Benefits

Document summaries: Everlaw AI Assistant can generate document summaries. Summaries are viewable from the Review Window, the Results Table, and in Storybuilder. Summaries can be generated for individual documents, or in batches to up to 20,000 documents at a time.

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  • Comprehend and recall documents more effectively: review summaries, topics, and/or coding suggestions in tandem with the document text to enhance your comprehension and analysis of the content

 

  • Get to insights faster: add the columns associated with summaries, topics, custom extractions, or coding suggestions to your results table and use them to quickly understand, sort, and prioritize a large set of documents

 

  • Search more effectively: search and filter by coding suggestions or topics to quickly identify the right documents for what you need

 

  • Speed up reporting: export summaries, topics, custom extractions, or coding suggestions from the results table as part of a CSV, and reduce the manual effort needed to create reports or work product where the substance or classification of documents matter

 

  • Creatively engage with your documents: if you require more idiosyncratic or creative analysis of a document, leverage document Q&A to get tailored insights

Topic analysis:

Everlaw AI Assistant can analyze a document for topics. For each identified topic, Everlaw will provide (1) a summary for the topic; (2) related document snippets; (3) a sentiment rating for the topic with reasoning for the rating; and (4) a list of related entities, with descriptions for each entity. Topic information is available in the Review Window, Results Table, and can be searched. Topics can be generated for individual documents or in batches of up to 20,000 documents at a time. 

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Custom extractions:

Everlaw AI Assistant can extract text from documents based on user-provided fields. Extractions can be created and viewed in the document viewer (along with tools for validating the extractions, like making them hit highlights). Extractions can also be generated in batches of up to 20,000 documents at a time.

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Document Q&A:
Ask any question of your document.

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Coding suggestions:

Everlaw AI Assistant can suggest whether codes should be applied to a document based on user-provided instructions. Rationales for the suggestions will also be provided. Coding suggestions can be generated for individual documents, or in batches of up to 20,000 documents at a time. You can also search and filter documents based on suggestions. 

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Writing Assistant:

Using documents curated by your team in Storybuilder, Everlaw AI Assistant can generate new content or analysis. Examples include evidence memos, outlines of arguments, and lists of facts of events. 

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  • A tireless partner for synthesizing evidence and brainstorming: leverage Writing Assistant to get fast and responsive help compiling and synthesizing evidence, or use it for more creative purposes like exploring different ways of framing an argument or understanding possible counterarguments.  

Deposition Analyzer:

 Everlaw AI Assistant can generate summaries and analysis of depositions. 

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  • Jumpstart your depo analysis: use Deposition Analyzer to quickly capture insights from depositions that can be built upon by you or your team.  

Need some ideas on how to incorporate these features into common workflows? Check out this article.