Westlaw Edge

Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions is a comprehensive suite of products designed to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of legal professionals and organizations. This platform offers a range of tools and resources that cater to various aspects of legal practice, including legal research, risk management, fraud prevention, and business management.

Key features:

- Westlaw Precision: Leverages generative AI to enable faster and more accurate legal research, providing relevant answers to legal questions with links to trusted Westlaw authority.
- Practical Law: Offers access to thousands of how-to guides, templates, and checklists maintained by over 650 attorney editors, using generative AI to accelerate the process of finding answers across major practice areas.
- CLEAR: A software solution for law enforcement, compliance, risk, and fraud investigators, allowing users to search through vast amounts of data with intuitive navigation and filtering options.
- Corporate Business & Organization: Tools for managing corporate legal departments and business organizations.
- Financial Management: Software for managing the financial aspects of legal practice, including billing and accounting.
- Legal Data & Document Management: Solutions for managing legal documents and data efficiently.
- Drafting Software, Service & Guidance: Tools to assist in the drafting of legal documents.
- Trial Readiness, Process & Case Guidance: Resources to help legal professionals prepare for trials and manage cases effectively.

How it works:

1. Users access Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions through a web-based platform.
2. The tools are designed to be intuitive and user-friendly.
3. For Westlaw Precision, users input legal queries and receive AI-generated answers linked to authoritative sources.
4. In Practical Law, users browse or search for specific legal guides, templates, and checklists, enhanced by AI for relevant results.
5. CLEAR allows investigators to input search parameters to sift through large datasets using advanced filtering.

Integrations:

- Microsoft Office
- Document Management Systems (DMS)
- Billing and Accounting Software

Use of AI:

Thomson Reuters leverages generative AI to enhance its legal research and guidance tools. The AI capabilities are built on advanced language models that can understand and generate human-like text, making it easier for users to find relevant legal information quickly.

AI foundation model:

These models are integrated into products like Westlaw Precision and Practical Law to provide accurate and efficient legal research and guidance.

Target users:

- Law Firms: Of all sizes, looking to enhance their research capabilities and improve workflow efficiency.
- Corporate Legal Departments: Needing comprehensive tools for managing legal operations and compliance.
- Government Agencies: Requiring robust investigative tools for law enforcement and fraud detection.
- Individual Legal Practitioners: Seeking efficient and reliable legal research and document management solutions.

How to access:

Thomson Reuters Legal Solutions is available as a web application, making it accessible from any device with internet connectivity. It also offers APIs and SDKs for integration with other software systems.