Interactive Matter maps are created by expert editors and provide a graphical overview of the phases and core tasks necessary for the planning, management and execution of a legal matter. The charts can be shared and will automatically be updated. These can be downloaded in PDF or excel and include all the underlying textual data. A lawyer can select a practice area and then compare an issue in all 50 states or selected states. Users can leverage pre-built charts, or build and customize their own according to jurisdiction, topic or data point. Quick compare is a customizable “chart builder.” which allows Practical Law users to create charts that compare key questions or concepts across jurisdictions. The beauty of this system is that it will expose related issues such as indicating when an issue triggers litigation issues or is governed by state law. So basically instead of being presented with a hierarchical list of topics and subtopics lawyers can see on one screen many related topics and then select the topics of interest and continue to mine deeper into the topics of interest. Each of those concepts can be expanded into sub concepts and there is apparently no limit to how many sub categories will be presented. When a user searches a term such as “breach notification” they will be presented with a visual map of high level terms related to that concept. It explodes a traditional topical hierarchy into expanding bands of related concepts. Knowledge maps create unique visual displays of related content. All answers link to relevant underlying Practical Law content. According to Kitaev there are 10,000 machine learning and editor created answers available at this time. If a user encounters a typeahead question the result will include an editorially created answer. Keyword results also appear under the answer card. Machine learning answers provide a direct answer and links to the applicable passage of text. Users can be presented with three different kinds of answers. Paul Fischer, president of the Legal Professionals segment of Thomson Reuters is quoted in the press release: “By putting AI, analytical tools and proprietary visual navigation technologies in service to our attorney authored content, we’ve created entirely new capabilities to help our customers thrive during this time of rapid change.”ĭynamic Search offers a natural language search powered by machine learning and algorithms that were trained on Practical Law content. Erica Kitaev, senior director, Product Management, Thomson Reuters provided me with an overview of the product features. Several of the features such as Dynamic Search and Quick Compare parallel developments and tools already available in Westlaw Edge. The new features include Dynamic Search, Knowledge Maps, Quick Compare, Interactive Matter Maps and What’s Market Analytics. Thomson Reuters is releasing a powerful suite of new tools to enhance workflow within Practical Law.
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