Extract from Stephanie Wilkins’s article “Gen AI Is Eliminating Legal Research and Internal Work Product Silos”
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The Disruption: Gen AI Is Eliminating Legal Research and Internal Work Product Silos
Legal is a profession built upon precedent. Whether handed down from courts or developed and iterated through years of institutional knowledge, both legal source materials and top-line knowledge work are invaluable to forming legal strategy, producing effective work product and more.
Historically, however, these two types of precedent resided in separate worlds. The technology used to locate legal source materials—namely, databases and tools from legal research providers—and the technology used to locate prior work product—namely, various document management systems (DMSs)—were distinctly siloed, offering little in the way of integrations.
