Casetext Launches 'Push Research' Feature for Litigators
Casetext, the Silicon Valley-based automated legal research company, is piloting a new feature that will push data to litigators about their cases as soon as new filings hit the docket, according to a company co-founder.
October 20, 2017 at 02:28 PM
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Casetext website.
SAN FRANCISCO — Casetext, the Silicon Valley-based automated legal research company, is piloting a new feature that will push data to litigators about their cases as soon as new filings hit the docket, according to a company co-founder.
Casetext's existing platform, called CARA (Case Analysis Research Assistant), already allows users to drag-and-drop court filings to find relevant decisions or case briefs. The new feature “listens” to dockets that litigators select and sends them relevant information automatically.
For example, if a motion for summary judgment is filed, Casetext's new push feature automatically analyzes it and sends an email to the opposing litigator with information about relevant cases not mentioned in the brief that might help argue against the motion.
“It's a new way of looking at legal research,” Pablo Arredondo, co-founder and chief legal research officer at Casetext, said in an interview Thursday. Eight law firms are currently testing the feature, Arredondo added, including Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, Ogletree Deakins, and Fenwick & West.
Arredondo said the tool uses language cues in the docket to make sure litigators only get those push alerts for relevant briefs—and not, for example, after a notice of appearance. “We have sort of a multilayered approach to make sure it's only substantive filings,” he said.
Casetext started piloting the feature in early October. The release comes just months after the company launched an AI “brief finder” feature in May, which helps lawyers find similar cases to the one they are working on and the briefs submitted for those cases.
Casetext website.
SAN FRANCISCO — Casetext, the Silicon Valley-based automated legal research company, is piloting a new feature that will push data to litigators about their cases as soon as new filings hit the docket, according to a company co-founder.
Casetext's existing platform, called CARA (Case Analysis Research Assistant), already allows users to drag-and-drop court filings to find relevant decisions or case briefs. The new feature “listens” to dockets that litigators select and sends them relevant information automatically.
For example, if a motion for summary judgment is filed, Casetext's new push feature automatically analyzes it and sends an email to the opposing litigator with information about relevant cases not mentioned in the brief that might help argue against the motion.
“It's a new way of looking at legal research,” Pablo Arredondo, co-founder and chief legal research officer at Casetext, said in an interview Thursday. Eight law firms are currently testing the feature, Arredondo added, including
Arredondo said the tool uses language cues in the docket to make sure litigators only get those push alerts for relevant briefs—and not, for example, after a notice of appearance. “We have sort of a multilayered approach to make sure it's only substantive filings,” he said.
Casetext started piloting the feature in early October. The release comes just months after the company launched an AI “brief finder” feature in May, which helps lawyers find similar cases to the one they are working on and the briefs submitted for those cases.
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