This release includes the general release of Everlaw AI Assistant, with new admin-level controls, and more — read on for more information about the features coming out this month! If you would like to learn more about the features in this release, join us for a live training session.
User-facing features in this release:
- General Availability of Everlaw AI Assistant
- Introducing Everlaw AI credits
- Controls and Permissions over Everlaw AI Credits and Features
- Everlaw AI dashboard and additional controls
- Coding suggestions: Expanded suggestion categories
- Coding suggestions: Prompt management and generation improvements
- Batch custom extractions
- Auto-detect color for TIFF production
- Organization Admin Setting to Limit Production Sharing
- Visual Improvements
General Availability of Everlaw AI Assistant
We are excited to announce the general availability of Everlaw AI Assistant! Everlaw AI Assistant features are deeply embedded in core discovery workflows and provides value at all stages:
- Code and categorize documents faster with Coding Suggestions
- Review and prioritize more effectively with Review Assistant
- Analyze and brainstorm against your key evidence and depositions with Writing Assistant
To use Everlaw AI Assistant, customers must purchase AI credits as a separate add-on to their core Everlaw subscription. Customers who participated in our beta will automatically be enrolled in a free trial as a thank you for their participation and feedback. Unlike the beta, free trial enrollment is at the organization level, not the database level. To learn more about purchasing Everlaw AI Assistant or enrolling in a free trial, please speak to your Everlaw Customer Success Manager or request a call.
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Note: Everlaw AI is not available in Everlaw Federal environments.
Introducing Everlaw AI credits
As part of the launch, we have added comprehensive admin controls over AI credit and feature usage, and a number of usability and performance enhancements to Coding Suggestions and Custom Extractions.
This image is how Everlaw AI credits are represented throughout Everlaw
AI credits are required to use Everlaw AI Assistant features. Assistant tasks consume a variable number of AI credits depending on the feature and the scope of the action (ex. number or length of documents analyzed).
Credits are consumed across two states:
- Plan credits: Credits that have been pre-purchased by your org and are consumable over the applicable contract period.
- Overage credits: Credits that enable your team to use Everlaw AI features once plan credits have been exhausted. The dollar-value of consumed overage credits is billed to your organization on a monthly basis in arrears.
Credits are not required to see or use existing generations. Once a generation is created, it is accessible in your project regardless of whether you’ve purchased credits in your current Everlaw subscription period or have remaining credits.
Learn more in our article on how to Manage and Track Everlaw AI Credit and Feature Use.
Controls and Permissions over Everlaw AI Credits and Features
Admins have comprehensive and granular control over the use of Everlaw AI. There are two categories of controls:
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Controls over credit consumption: These controls dictate whether new AI generations can occur either by:
- Enforcing limits on the number of credits that can be consumed at the Organization, Database, or Project levels
- Enabling/disabling credit consumption more generally at the Organization, Database, or Project levels
- Controls and permissions over AI feature usage: Separate from the management of credits, admins can also control the availability of different Everlaw AI features at the Organization, Project, or User Group levels
Everlaw AI Admin permission
The new org-level AI Management role allows you to give users in your organization admin rights to Everlaw AI without granting them full Org Admin status; these users can only access the Everlaw AI Admin Dashboard on the Org Admin page.
Learn more in our article on how to Manage and Track Everlaw AI Credit and Feature Use.
Everlaw AI dashboard and additional controls
The Everlaw AI dashboard allows admins to monitor and control Everlaw AI usage across their organization. The data displayed on this page reflects usage in your current Everlaw subscription or free trial period. From this dashboard you can:
- Track credit usage details
- Control credit usage for your organization and for specific databases
- Control Everlaw AI Assistant feature usage across the organization
- Set up usage notifications
There are two main sections of the dashboard:
- A top section contains a snapshot of total credit usage across your organization and org-level credit and feature controls
- A bottom table contains granular credit usage data across databases, users, and events, plus database-level controls
Learn more in our article on how to Manage and Track Everlaw AI Credit and Feature Use.
Project-level controls
Project Admins and Organization Admins can enable/disable individual features from the Everlaw AI tab on the Project Settings page of each project.
Project Admins and Organization Admins can control permissions for specific user groups and features from the Permissions tab of the Project Settings page of each project.
Learn more in our article on how to Manage and Track Everlaw AI Credit and Feature Use.
User experience of permissions and credits
Within projects, users indicated of their access to particular Everlaw AI features based on the various permission states:
In addition, the credits required to perform an action are clearly indicated, and users are prevented from starting new generations if one of the following is true:
- There are insufficient credits
- Limits will be exceeded by the action
- The user does not have the right permissions
Learn more in our article on how to Manage and Track Everlaw AI Credit and Feature Use.
Coding suggestions: Expanded suggestion categories
Instead of giving a binary YES or NO suggestion for each code, Everlaw now provides one of four possible suggestions:
- Yes: The document directly matches the configured criteria
- Soft Yes: Although the document is not directly relevant, there is a strong plausible link
- Soft No: The document is at best only weakly relevant
- No: The document has no relevance given the configuration
These expanded categories give you more precise suggestions and increased granularity as you use the suggestions to prioritize and filter your corpus.
Coding suggestions: Prompt management and generation improvements
Because prompt iteration is such an integral part of the Coding Suggestions workflow, Everlaw is adding a number of improvements to make this process easier.
Select specific codes to generate suggestions for
Previously, Everlaw generated suggestions for each configured code. Now, you can select specific codes or categories when generating suggestions, whether for a single document or in a batch action.
Learn more in our Coding suggestions article.
Code criteria history
Everlaw now saves a history of updates to your Coding Suggestions prompts. This allows you to track and compare changes to your prompts that may have affected performance.
Learn more in our Coding suggestions article.
Suggestions generated from outdated prompts
Everlaw now detects whether a generated suggestion was based on an out-of-date prompt. A suggestion is out-of-date if any one of the following is modified after the suggestion is generated:
- The code prompt
- The category prompt
- The case description
Out-of-date suggestions are indicated with a dotted outline.You have full control over whether to rerun these suggestions.
Learn more in our Coding suggestions article.
Smart auto-selection
When generating suggestions for a document — whether singly or in a batch — Everlaw automatically excludes codes with existing, up-to-date suggestions from the request.
Learn more in our Coding suggestions article.
Search suggestions by date generated
You can now search for documents with suggestions based on when the suggestions were generated, making it easier to find subsets of documents based on your workflow history.
Learn more in our Coding suggestions article.
Batch custom extractions
You can now generate custom extractions in a batch action. This is useful if there are shared categories of information you want to extract across multiple documents.
Learn more in our Summaries, Topics, and Extractions article.
Auto-detect color for TIFF production
Users producing TIFF images can now select to automatically detect and render color pages to JPG.
Production wizard updates
When a user selects the TIFF option in the Image Details step of the production wizard, there is a new dropdown menu with the following options:
- Do not produce color JPGs (default): All documents are produced as TIFFs
- Produce JPGs if color is detected: Documents with detected color are produced as color JPGs, while documents without color are produced as TIFFs
- Specify documents to produce: Users can use the search builder to specify a subset of documents to produce as color JPGs.
To automatically detect and render color pages to JPG, select Produce JPGs if color is detected.
DOJ and SEC Template Updates
DOJ and SEC production templates now default to Produce JPGs if color is detected, replacing the previous Color JPG default to produce all Image or CAD file types in color.
Learn more in our Production Protocol article.
Organization Admin Setting to Limit Production Sharing
With this release, we’ve added an organization-wide security setting to control how users can share productions. By default, users with the proper permissions can share productions to outside sources via download, email, and shareable link.
Learn more in our Organization and Project Administration article.
Visual Improvements
- Language Tools is now called Machine translation. These tools are now in the Everlaw AI tab of Project Settings. Previously, they were located in the General tab.
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- Case description is now integrated with the rest of the fields for Coding suggestions, ensuring that your team doesn’t miss inputting critical information when setting up Coding Suggestions
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The interface for reviewing Coding suggestions in the review window is redesigned to minimize the number of clicks necessary to access information, and to make it easier to see all suggestions at a glance
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- We added additional vertical space to the Finished tasks table on the Organization Admin’s Task page. This allows users to view more tasks without scrolling the table.
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- this release document? Submit your feedback
- the features in this release? Email feedback@everlaw.com