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Case law research

Part of the Research & Analysis workflow

Case law researchStatutory / regulatory researchCompetitive / market analysisLegal analytics (judge, outcome, citation)AI-assisted research & summarisation
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Pain points (4)

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7 vendors pp-0039 Legal research costs $400-600/hour in associate time and takes hours of manual digging — searching Westlaw/Lexis, reading irrelevant results, synthesizing case law. Clients increasingly refuse to pay for research hours on invoices. AI can compress a 4-hour research memo into 20 minutes, but most firms have no approved tool largemidinhousesolo 4 vendors pp-0085 Litigation associate searches for case law supporting a specific legal argument but keyword search returns 500+ results, most irrelevant — the actual proposition ('courts have held that X constitutes Y under Z standard') is buried across dozens of cases that happen to contain the same terms but reach different conclusions solosmallmidlarge 2 vendors pp-0266 Litigation team needs to verify every citation in a 40-page brief before filing — manually checking each case reference against the original source takes a full day, and a single bad citation can result in sanctions or a lost motion mid-firmlarge-firmbiglawparalegal 1 vendors pp-0094 Arbitration counsel preparing for an investor-state dispute needs to find all awards involving a specific bilateral investment treaty clause, know the arbitrator's track record on jurisdictional challenges, and identify the opposing party's litigation history — but arbitral awards are scattered across ICC, ICSID, PCA, LCIA databases with no unified search, and many awards are confidential or paywalled largeinhouse

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