Extracting key information from cases
As part of our Legal Innovation Lab Wales Summer Week of Events, on 21st June 2021 we hosted the panel: How can apps be used to support desistance from crime & improve wellbeing?
One of the most exciting areas of legal technology concerns the automatic extraction of information from legal documents, including case law, legislation and contracts. The Legal Innovation Lab Wales is at the forefront of these developments, conducting research on the application of explainable AI, web ontologies and knowledge graphs to legal information.
Our researcher Livio Robaldo, in partnership with Patrizio Gelosi (ReadContract), has created a case law tagging application, using LegalDocML (a standard XML format for legal documents) to automatically identify key information (dates, parties, judges and other named entities) in a corpus of 100 judicial decisions published on judiciary.gov.uk. The technologies utilised in this project have the potential to revolutionise the approach of law firms to legal information, enabling exciting LegalTech innovation that unlocks key insights from data.
We had a discussion (and a live demo of the project) with Livio, Patrizio and Nick Rundle (Partner and Co-Head of the Propel Litigation Technology and Legal Project Management Team at Eversheds Sutherland) on this exciting project and its significance for the development of LegalTech in Wales and beyond. The panel discussion was moderated by Stefano Barazza, Academic Lead of the Legal Innovation Lab Wales.
You can watch the video of the panel on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/IatXeKbBzkA