Extract from AJ Shankar’s article, “How Everlaw Brings the Evidence Layer to Legal AI.”
To understand how legal work is changing, let’s start with the basic mechanics of how lawyers work today.
A brief, a risk analysis, a deposition outline, even a piece of legal advice begins with information: the evidence in the matter, the law that applies to it, and the knowledge the lawyer and their organization have accumulated from prior work.
For decades, technology organized those inputs in separate systems. Evidence lived in discovery platforms. Case law and precedent lived in research tools. Prior work product lived in document management systems and knowledge repositories—or, sometimes, in an email to the team asking whether anyone had ever drafted something on this particular issue in this particular jurisdiction.
