- AI for Justice Legal Aid - Thomson Reuters announces first
Legal Innovators Incubator class and subsidized CoCounsel pricing
for legal aid organizations (LSOs).
- AI Policy Consortium - New initiatives bolster ongoing
efforts such as the recently launched AI Policy Consortium for Law
and Courts, a joint effort from Thomson Reuters Institute and the
National Center for State Courts (NCSC).
TORONTO, Oct. 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Thomson
Reuters (TSX/NYSE: TRI), a global content and technology
company, today launched its AI for Justice Legal Aid program,
including both the Legal Innovators Incubator and subsidized
pricing for legal nonprofits.
"As the most powerful technology to emerge in our lifetimes,
generative AI represents the greatest potential to
meaningfully tackle the justice gap and to bring about a more
efficient, effective, and equitable justice system for everyone,"
said Laura Safdie, Vice President,
Artificial Intelligence GTM & Global Affairs for Thomson
Reuters. "We have the opportunity and the responsibility to ensure
as many legal aid organizations as possible can access and
effectively use game-changing AI solutions like CoCounsel, Thomson
Reuters is fully committed to this mission. Our LSO Legal
Innovators Incubator will provide these organizations not just the
technology itself, but also the vital dedicated training and
support to derive the greatest possible value from it."
The inaugural Legal Innovators Incubator pilot class includes
The Innocence Center, National Center for Missing and Exploited
Children, and Lawyers Alliance for New
York, among others. Participating organizations receive
complimentary access to Thomson Reuters CoCounsel GenAI legal
assistant, as well as close partnership and training to develop the
GenAI use cases that will most benefit their organizations and
clients. The resulting playbooks will also be used to empower the
entire legal aid community to amplify their impact through AI.
Thomson Reuters has been incorporating AI into its platform for
three decades, and so has seen firsthand the benefits of that
investment. In addition, it has a longstanding history of serving,
supporting, and helping strengthen the justice system worldwide, by
collaborating with organizations including Lawyers Without
Borders, the Justice Technology Association, and Equal
Justice Works. Recent new
programs to support courts include a joint initiative between the
Thomson Reuters Institute and the National Center for State Courts
(NCSC) to create the AI Policy Consortium for Law and Courts. The
initiative aims to help court leaders and legal professionals
understand generative AI's risks and opportunities, and to create a
forum for the exchange of views among various actors in the justice
system.
Supercharging legal aid organizations
For the Legal Innovators Incubator pilot class, Thomson Reuters
selected a group of 501(c)(3) organizations offering legal services
to low-income individuals in the United States. Participants will
have free access for one year to CoCounsel, which leverages OpenAI,
and can complete complicated legal workstreams in a fraction of the
time. CoCounsel can empower these organizations to better serve
more people, in more places, more quickly. OpenAI also donated API
credits to support the Legal Innovators Incubator program.
"As an early CoCounsel user, I've experienced the transformation
this powerful tool can bring about for an organization. From
summarizing voluminous records to finding inconsistencies between
witnesses, all in a matter of minutes, the power is endless," said
Michael Semanchik, Executive
Director of The Innocence Center. "I'm so glad to have been part of
the evolution of this game-changing solution, and I'm honored that
The Innocence Center is part of the first Legal Innovators
Incubator class. In just two weeks of using its latest generation,
CoCounsel 2.0, I've been able to apply CoCounsel even more broadly
to advance our work. For instance, it completed 10 grant
applications for me in about three hours. Normally I'd spend an
entire day on just one. I'm excited to share our experiences with
and learn from the other organizations in this first class."
Bringing generative AI to the courts
Thomson Reuters has also been working to understand and develop
use cases where CoCounsel can have the most impact within all
levels of the judiciary. Using CoCounsel can markedly increase both
the quality of work for the courts and the rate at which it can be
completed. And the CoCounsel team is running a focused program on
custom generative AI applications for the courts, built through a
deeply collaborative process. The first project, with the
Massachusetts Court of Appeals,
resulted in the development of a prototype system for synthesizing
input from a wide range of specialized documents involved in
emergency eviction appeals, like what a clerk would prepare for a
judge. And a project with Pennsylvania courts, exploring the use of AI
to write bench memos, is in development.
Thomson Reuters
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Contact
Ali Hughes
+1.763.326.4421
ali.hughes@thomsonreuters.com
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