The products listed below were evaluated by Nevada lawyers with varying levels of AI experience using a standard AI Evaluation Rubric. Each evaluator assigned an independent product score, which was averaged to provide an overall score. When considering if these AI products are a good fit for your practice, we encourage you to read the complete report provided and assess your firm’s needs in relation to the report.
Practice Management Products
Product: Clearbrief
Score: 40.5/50
Evaluators: Tom Askeroth, Kegan McMullan & Nancy Rapoport
Overall Takeaway: Clearbrief is a legal technology tool that uses AI to help lawyers find and view supporting factual evidence while writing briefs and other legal documents in Microsoft Word. The tool allows users to cite-check both facts and law and generate deposition summaries, timelines, exhibits, and tables of content and authorities (TOC/TOA). Overall, Clearbrief has clearly demonstrated good performance when compared with other AI tools and platforms reviewed by the State Bar of Nevada AI Research Task Force, and can be recommended with only minor reservations. Once users have come up to speed through the onboarding process, as well as the personal, on-demand support training offered by its technical team, Clearbrief’s robust suite of capabilities promise immense time savings to assist lawyers in brief drafting and related activities. Even during the course of this review, Clearbrief has continuously innovated with the pace of AI to roll out new feature launches and improve existing core competencies.
Product: Luminance
Score: 32.5/50
Evaluators: Wendy Angulo, Bianka Kadian Dodov & David Rothenberg
Overall Takeaway: Luminance is an AI-powered document review platform designed to enhance efficiency in legal and corporate environments. The tool primarily targets complex document management tasks such as due diligence, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), compliance, contract review, and insurance policy comparisons. While it offers some promising capabilities, the platform comes with notable limitations that potential users should carefully consider, such as integration with existing software and adaptability to nuanced contract formation.
Legal Research Products
Product: Vincent AI (vLex/Fastcase)
Score: 36.5/50
Evaluators: Peter Aldous, Dan Hooge, Jennifer Shomshor & Nancy Rapoport
Overall Takeaway: Vincent AI is a powerful tool designed to support legal professionals in their research and workflow management. Although it excels in areas such as data privacy, usability, and support, there are notable gaps in customization, bias mitigation, and regulatory transparency. Its value proposition remains strong for firms with routine research needs, though users must exercise caution when handling complex tasks due to occasional errors and the need for independent verification. With further enhancements in areas like bias mitigation, regulatory transparency, usability, and customization, Vincent AI could become a valuable tool for legal professionals.
Generative AI Products
Product: Chat GPT
Score: 31.7/50
Evaluators: Keegan McMullan, Timothy Wiseman & Andrew Switlyk
Overall Takeaway: ChatGPT is excellent as a sounding board in situations such as brainstorming and can be useful as a start for research in unfamiliar subjects when the question is best posed in natural language. However, it is best to be cautious when providing sensitive information to ChatGPT, and its responses should be meticulously fact-checked to mitigate the risks of hallucination or confabulation. The practitioner should also refrain from sharing any potentially sensitive or confidential information with it.
Product: Claude Pro by Anthropic
Score: 31.62/50
Evaluators: David Rothenberg, Jennifer Shomshor & Marshal Willick
Overall Takeaway: Claude Pro offers solo practitioners and small firms a useful AI tool for routine tasks like document summarization and drafting. Its main strengths lie in cost-effectiveness, a positive market reputation, and a solid commitment to bias and fairness. Claude Pro provides reasonable value at a low monthly cost and has garnered positive feedback for its ease of use and ethical approach. Its Constitutional AI framework supports balanced outputs, making it a good option for basic document processing and content creation. The tool also has limitations, especially regarding data privacy, integration, and compliance, which are critical to legal practice.