A similar matter is searched for in Clio, SharePoint folders and Westlaw, and the ruling a colleague cited last year takes half a day to find. The assistant answers from the firm's material, Westlaw and the legislation register with a link to the source. If there is no source, it says so and does not make up citations.
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A firm's knowledge lives in several places: matter files and time entries in Clio, documents and opinions in SharePoint folders, case law in Westlaw, legislation in the official register, and part of it in colleagues' heads. When preparing a response, a lawyer asks in Teams whether anyone has handled a matter on early termination of a lease, opens several Clio records, browses SharePoint, then searches Westlaw and spends half a day looking for one supreme court ruling that a colleague cited last year. A junior lawyer meanwhile writes from general knowledge and risks missing a position the firm has already formed.
The assistant joins these places into one search. The lawyer asks in Teams or in a browser in plain language, and the assistant searches the firm's matter files in Clio and SharePoint, case law in Westlaw and legislation in the official register, and answers with links: to a specific matter document, an article of a statute, or a ruling with its number and date. The assistant writes no statement without a source: if it cannot find a ruling, it says so instead of making up a citation. We limit access according to Clio: a lawyer sees only the matters they can also see in the system. We implement private AI in MDP CLOUD's GPU cloud in Lithuania (EU), so matter files do not leave our data centre, models do not learn from your data, and every request and answer is logged in line with GDPR and legal professional privilege requirements. We connect to Clio through an API or an export and to Westlaw through the firm's account, and we use the court e-filing system and the legislation register as public sources.
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The lawyer writes to the assistant in Teams or in the firm's browser window: "Have we handled matters on early lease termination, and what position did we take?" The assistant checks which Clio matters this user can see and searches only those, plus the public sources.
The assistant reviews the matter documents in Clio and SharePoint, the firm's opinions and court filings, case law in Westlaw and the current version of a statute in the legislation register. It finds the passages that answer the question and attaches a source to each, with its location in the document.
The lawyer gets a short summary and, under each statement, a link to the matter document in Clio, the ruling in Westlaw or the article in the legislation register, which can be opened with one click and checked personally. The legal conclusion and the position for the client are formulated by the lawyer.
If the sources contain no answer, the assistant says so and suggests where else to look, for example a public search of the court e-filing system. Every month we review the request log and the answers without a source, and with a partner we refine which folders should be connected.
Matter documents from Clio and SharePoint are indexed in a private cloud, and access rights are taken over from Clio: whoever cannot see a matter in the system cannot see it in search either.
Case law from Westlaw through the firm's account and current versions of legislation from the official register are available in the same window, with a link to the ruling or article.
The model runs in MDP CLOUD's GPU cloud in Lithuania (EU), does not learn from your data, and the material is not passed to any external provider.
Every request, answer and source is logged with the time and the user. Lawyer training and first-month support are part of the implementation.
Private AI in MDP CLOUD's GPU cloud + Clio and Westlaw. We choose the platform by the task and by where your data may be located. For more on this service and its limits, see the service page.
It is configured so that it cannot: it builds its answer only from the passages it finds and attaches a link to each statement, which the lawyer opens and checks. If there is no source, the answer is "not found", not a plausible citation. Even so, the final check and the conclusion are always the lawyer's.
No. Access rights are taken over from Clio and SharePoint: the assistant searches only the matters the user can see in the system, and closed matters and conflict-of-interest walls also apply in search. We test this with real users before launch.
We reach Westlaw through the firm's account, the court e-filing system and the legislation register as public sources, and Clio through an API or an export, depending on the version. We have no official partnerships with these systems. We work with their public interfaces and, before proposing a solution, check what your account allows.
Enquiries from the website and Outlook wait until someone reads them, checks for a conflict of interest and replies.
The contract the client sent is read from the top, and the checklist is kept in the lawyer's head.
A response to a claim starts from a blank Word page or a copy of an old matter, with the facts retyped from Clio.
At the end of the month lawyers reconstruct from the Outlook calendar and from memory how many hours went to each matter, and some of the work…
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