![]() ![]() Rourke’s colleague Ben Parsons - Head of Digital at the firm - says: The problem the team soon discovered was that most legal OCR suppliers were geared to aiding lawyers with less relevant workflows to Clyde & Co’s needs, such as disclosure. To do so meant use of OCR to quickly ingest the required data from claims at speed. That resulted, says Rourke, in a decision to create a more centrally controlled solution with functionality held on one platform that could be automatically populated with the right data and formulas. The firm’s potential customers liked the idea but disliked the lack of version control over the calculations, as well as the need to jump from one application to another. The aim being to help insurers calculate potential costs. However, prompted by the request, the team created an Excel-based application extended by Microsoft VBA to show the potential of detecting fraud on our casualty claims. This was something of a challenge for the team, as it always concentrated more on the purely legal element of what it delivered, he says, and a lot less on the tech solution. We do more insurance litigation than anyone else in the universe, and about five years ago clients started to approach us for digital solutions in the casualty claims space. In Clyde & Co’s case, that’s sifting through thousands of pages of what it specializes in - fraud claims. That dataset is the fuel for what the supplier calls its Legal Pre-Trained Transformer (LPT) technology, which understands and ‘learns’ what its users want to know from a corpus of legal forms. Luminance claims to have trained the model on over 150 million verified legal documents. However, unlike general purpose LLMs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Clyde & Co is using one built for legal-specific applications - Luminance. ![]() Like other Generative AI applications, the system works off a proprietary Large Language Model. The way Rourke and his team are freeing up the team is natural language processing in combination with OCR (Optical Character Recognition). What we're looking to do is remove as many non-value-added tasks within our space that we can, so our lawyers can then do lawyering instead. Even after just six months, the use of ‘legal grade’ Artificial Intelligence (AI) is starting to make highly manual legal documentation research much easier at UK law firm, Clyde & Co.Īs a result, Damian Rourke, a partner at the London-based international law firm who deals with fraud claims, says: ![]()
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