A North American First — Every lawyer in Manitoba to get AI-powered legal research
WINNIPEG, OTTAWA
May 27, 2019 –
Every lawyer in the Province of Manitoba has a new assistant.
Meet Vincent, your intelligent research assistant.
Vincent reads legal documents like court rulings to extract topics, cited authorities and other key indicators to create contextually-relevant knowledge graphs that can be further refined by traditional search methods.
Vincent is the only tool of its kind in Canada, the only one capable of analyzing the laws of 9 countries, and the only one capable of operating in English and Spanish.
Manitoba lawyers throughout the province get desktop access to Vincent, along with the vLex Canada and vLex US collections through the Library Resources component of the Law Society of Manitoba Members’ Portal. No additional sign-up necessary!
Truly a North American first, as in no other province or state are these capabilities put at the fingertips of every single lawyer.
“Manitoba has a long history of innovation and of being at the forefront of trends. We thrilled to bring AI-powered legal research to the province and follow its lead for how it should evolve with the needs of lawyers,” said vLex Canada CEO, Colin Lachance. “As a born, raised and educated Manitoban with family and friends throughout the province, I take a special pleasure in the chance to serve Manitoba’s lawyers.”
Along with the launch of Vincent, vLex is rolling out an advanced and globally integration version of its world-leading legal research platform. The Manitoba subscription already includes unlimited access to over 20,000,000 North American primary and secondary source legal documents, but with the new platform, users can easily discover over 100,000,000 legal documents from over 100 countries.
“Province-wide desktop access to vLex Canada and US materials has proven very popular among our members since we begin providing these services in late 2017,” said Karen Sawatzky, Director of Legal Resources. “The new vLex platform and Vincent now add a “wow” factor, but more importantly, advance our goal of supporting member competence through access to essential legal research tools.”
An introductory webinar for Manitoba lawyers on how to get the most out of vLex and Vincent is scheduled for 11:00 am Central on June 13th. No registration required, just go to https://join.me/vLexGlobal at 11am on the 13th.
Watch for the Manitoba Law Library blog Great LEXpectations for information on more webinars and training sessions coming this fall on Vincent and the new vLex services
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For more information:
Colin Lachance
CEO vLex Canada and Interim GM vLex North America
613–316–3290
Karen Sawatzky
Director of Legal Resources, Manitoba Law Library Inc.
About vLex
vLex delivers “Your World of Legal Intelligence” through personalization, global coverage, and artificial intelligence. Hundreds of thousands of clients of all sizes, and millions of users around the world rely on vLex to address their research and legal technology needs. vLex’s team of over 120 lawyers, engineers, and editorial experts apply the power of Iceberg AI cloud-based data hub to ingest, enrich, classify and deliver the insights contained in over 100 million legal documents from 2,000+ multilingual and multi-legal system global sources. vLex’s intuitive platforms, tailored to the geographic, topical and functional need are powered by leading global innovations and the latest in machine learning advances.
Vincent is the first AI-powered intelligent legal research assistant of its kind. Independently trained and operational in the laws of multiple countries, it analyzes documents in English and Spanish to extract insights and generate the most relevant results from among vLex’s extensive libraries and customers’ knowledge management collections.
Iceberg AI is a data platform developed by vLex for its own use but available to enterprise SaaS clients to apply to their own data. Iceberg AI can operate end-to-end, allowing clients to import, crawl and connect data sources, enrich and combine datasets with machine learning modules, rules-based automations and human workflows, to generate exponential value that transforms products and entire organizations.
With Global headquarters split between Miami, U.S.A. and Barcelona, Spain the vLex team also has executive, customer support and engineering teams in Canada and throughout Latin America.
A North American First — Every lawyer in Manitoba to get AI-powered legal research was originally published in vLex Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.