We recently released Research, our legal resource tool that uses trusted, authoritative sources to and in-line citations to fill all your legal research needs. It’s extremely important to use trusted, citable sources for legal research, for obvious reasons, and Research gives you line-by-line citations so you can check the accuracy of the results. 

For US matters, those sources include EDGAR / SEC Filings, U.S. Code and Congress.gov, eCFR and the Federal Register, as well as reputable indexes for court case retrieval. For questions involving UK/EU matters, Research uses materials from official databases like Companies House, Parliament, and the Court of Justice. 

What kinds of prompts can you use with Research? The feature excels at case law and statute search, multi-jurisdiction research, and compliance. Here are a few example prompts that you can use with it: 

  • What is the law for noncompetes in California?
  • Are liquidated damages available and enforceable in business to business (non-real estate) contexts in New York and California?
  • Is a reduction in royalties as a result of material breach in an agreement a form of liquidated damages in California?
  • How do data privacy laws in the EU differ from those in the US for employee data? 

Another capability of Research is that it can summarize new and relevant statutes very quickly for executive review or wider consumption. An example of a prompt for this might be: 

  • Summarize the new SEC cyber security disclosure rule in 5 bullet points
  • Summarize recent developments in data privacy laws in the US in a short email

Research is also able to take into account context about your company through the company profile feature. For example, if Ivo knows that your company is located in California without specifying a jurisdiction in your prompt, Research will look to statutes, regulations, and case law that are specific to California. 

Research is a powerful feature and our customers report that it saves them a great deal of time and effort. If you’d like to see how it could be useful in your workflow, schedule a demo today. Happy researching!