ContractPodAI has announced new features to Leah Legal CoPilot it declared earlier this year. It means that CoPilot now has new capabilities to support legal teams. These will improve productivity across a range of legal tasks. The original capabilities include Leah One Drop, adding new contract applications, and Leah Assist to help with redlining. It has now added Leah Discovery for multi-level gale analysis, Lead Redline, further improving redlining, and Leah Assist, offering guidance across a range of subjects. There is also Leah Impact, a reporting tool and a new add-in for Microsoft Word.
Anurag Malik, President and Chief Technology Officer at ContractPodAi, commented, “Through a combination of our internal expertise and best-of-breed large language models, we’re excited to release these new modules to help customers further harness the power of generative AI to streamline their day-to-day work and see unprecedented productivity gains. With the rapid pace of the legal technology industry, it’s important for vendors to quickly and securely bring unique innovations to market to help legal professionals navigate both current and future challenges. Our continued innovation is a testament to our ability to quickly bring a generational shift to how customers use technology.”
What are the new features?
Leah Discover will perform comprehensive discovery across multiple documents without any limitations on the size or number of documents. Documents can include any legal transactions from M&A, litigations, contracts and legal to regulatory compliance use cases.
Leah possesses an expanded token capacity. Allowing for in-depth legal analysis and responses for large-scale projects where comprehensive coverage is essential. With Leah, there are no restrictions on response size.
The CoPilot provides detailed and complete analysis, delivering all the necessary insights and data to make informed decisions. It will also provide cross-file sourcing and citations and a description of the method incorporated to drive results and conclusions. This feature enables lawyers to quickly verify the insights provided and confirm the accuracy of the response. This human-in-the-loop is imperative for users to build trust in Leah and also to validate that the results are accurate.
Leah Redline helps legal teams create comprehensive risk and remediation reports. These provide a meticulous examination of the document to evaluate risk. The CoPilot can also redraft contracts, including relevant, accurate and concise redline documents. The new documents will comply with the organisation’s standard terms and redline others to ensure they are not unfavourable. This ability is based on the Leah framework, which helps identify risk in language and will annotate any changes with reasons and references for doing so. This further simplifies the validation by lawyers when reviewing Leah’s work.
Leah Guidance provides an interactive and conversational concierge that can automatically offer legal guidance across multiple legal matters by understanding your policies, negotiation strategies, playbooks and other reference materials stored in your knowledge base. Thisoffers full transparency to the source material and the rationale of the guidance, giving hours back to legal professionals.
Leah Impact provides comprehensive insights about the use of Leah CoPilot across the organisation. The solution provides information about user activity, usage data, real-time ROI and productivity. It enables managers to see how the ContractPodAI generative AI is being used across the organisation, or not used.
Leah Copilot Microsoft Word add-in. A new add-in that gives access to the Leah capabilities while using Word. It means that Leah can assist lawyers in reviewing and editing Word documents themselves to give a co-pilot experience in the word processor.
Enterprise Times: What does this mean?
ContractPodAI has continued to invest in generative AI to benefit its customers. Those organisations using ContractPodAI and Leah to its fullest should see productivity gains. However, there are caveats to the solution; users must retain the human in the loop. The addition of Leah Impact also helps organisations to ensure that the solution is used correctly.
Legal firms should be aware that it is still the human lawyer who bears the responsibility for the work done. With the verification and cross-referencing that ContractPodAI has embedded into the Leah functionality being vital. The caveat is always: does the generative AI have access to all the relevant legal documents and case law around a subject? Even the most recent ones?
What ContractPodAI appears to have achieved, though, is a real balance between usability, compliance and expertise. What it needs to do next is publish a case study of how it has genuinely helped a legal firm deliver on the efficiency and productivity gains it promises and the difference in profitability and revenue it has delivered.
