With Ross Intelligence’s announcement last month at ALM’s Legalweek of its AI-powered brief analyzer, EVA, an unlikely bot brawl broke out at the bar of the New York Hilton.
It pitted EVA against Casetext’s CARA, the first brief analyzer to hit the market and the American Association of Law Libraries’ 2017 product of the year. (A third briefalyzer, Judicata’s Clerk, covers only California cases.) The excitement was palpable. As Joe Patrice of “Above the Law” memorably put it, “Legalweek isn’t the sort of event that usually spawns an old-school rumble. It’s a bunch of tech geeks and lawyers gushing about efficiency and productivity. If there’s any event in the world more at risk to a swirlie attack, it’s this one. But somehow a throwdown emerged yesterday.” Ambrogi, a serious tech journalist and practicing lawyer not given to hyperbole, livestreamed the brief bot scrum.
Published January 9, 2019.
