The suite includes six tools for research streamlining and productivity improvement
Thomson Reuters has debuted a suite of intelligent workflow enhancements on the Westlaw New Zealand legal research platform.
The platform, which has been tailored to the New Zealand legal system, has six tools for research streamlining and productivity improvement: an outline builder for research, a keep list for bookmarking materials, a filter to reject non-essential results, a feature to determine context without exiting the search interface, a highlight function, and the ability to customise shortcuts for oft-used content.
The Westlaw NZ platform also incorporates AI into the research process. The AI responses to lawyer questions will have footnotes that link to primary law passages.
“Generative AI holds immense promise for the legal sector, and lawyers must be able to rely on the sources behind every conclusion”, said Vishal Bali, managing director for Asia and emerging markets at Thomson Reuters.
Queries made through the Westlaw NZ platform are processed under a zero-retention agreement with third-party AI providers, with Thomson Reuters barring customer information from being utilised to train AI models. Thomson Reuters confirmed that there would be additional AI capabilities released for the platform throughout the next year.
Westlaw NZ was developed with input from legal professionals, including Kiely Thompson Caisley partner Scott Worthy, Simpson Grierson partner Matt Conway and Auckland University of Technology criminal law and justice studies professor Warren Brookbanks.
