Law&Company 'SuperLawyer' Launch Press Conference
Based on 4.6 Million Data Records... Minimizing Hallucination
Legal Case Analysis Support Service Also in Development
"The convergence of law and artificial intelligence will completely transform the legal landscape. With SuperLawyer, we will open a new chapter in legal services in the Republic of Korea."
Kim Bonhwan, CEO of Law&Company, is speaking at the press conference for the launch of Super Lawyer on the 9th. [Photo by Yeom Dayeon]
Kim Bonhwan, CEO of Law&Company, said this at a press conference held on the 9th in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, to launch SuperLawyer. SuperLawyer, launched by Law&Company on the 1st, is a generative AI-based conversational legal assistant service. It supports lawyers' work based on AI and legal data.
On this day, Law&Company expressed its ambition to enter the global market based on SuperLawyer. To this end, the company plans to focus first on successfully establishing itself in the domestic market. Since the official launch, it has rapidly secured customers with 1,230 subscribers so far. Anyone belonging to law firms or corporate legal teams can use the service free of charge throughout July.
CEO Kim said, "SuperLawyer was born through persistent effort and investment over five years since 2019," adding, "Within the next five years, I will deliver a representative speech for Korea at the ABA Techshow hosted by the American Bar Association, the home of legal tech in the United States." He also added, "It is not a simple AI service but one that can provide highly reliable service based on 4.6 million domestic precedent cases, the largest number in Korea."
SuperLawyer reduces the workload of lawyers who spend a lot of time reviewing documents and drafting papers. It supports various document formats including Hangul, Word, Excel files, as well as scanned PDF files, enabling diverse document processing. It understands long questions consisting of thousands of characters and provides highly accurate answers based on specific factual relationships. The precedent cases or laws cited in the answers are provided in the form of hyperlinks.
Along with this, a 'fact checker' function has been built to verify whether the information is based on reliable data, minimizing hallucinations. Ahn Kisoon, head of the Legal AI Research Institute at Law&Company, who oversaw the development of SuperLawyer, explained, "We aim for 0% hallucination by using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) technology to generate answers." He also said, "Since the system does not learn from documents uploaded by users, even if hacked, it is difficult to extract the original content as is. There is a function that allows users to delete their data at any time, which immediately removes it from the server, thus reducing the risk of external leakage."
At the press conference, Law&Company also announced the newly developed 'Legal Case Analysis.' Legal Case Analysis is a service that, when case records are uploaded, provides analysis of the case records and factual issues through an integrated dashboard based on a generative AI agent. It is a legal-specialized AI model jointly developed with Upstage and is expected to be utilized in Law&Company's services after further technological development and advancement.
Following this, a demonstration was held based on cases where actual lawyers used SuperLawyer. Users can choose between two types of answers: a fast version and an accurate version. Answers were completed after about 30 seconds and 2 minutes 30 seconds, respectively. When requested to draft a complaint for a lawyer acting as a complainant's agent, SuperLawyer cited Supreme Court rulings and provided answers considering the victim's psychological distress. In addition, SuperLawyer provided answers tailored to the questioner's requests, such as searching for specific cases, drafting the defendant's final statement, and predicting the prosecutor's cross-examination.
A demonstration is underway where the legal AI assistant Super Lawyer responds to a request for 'drafting a complaint by the complainant's representative.' [Photo by Yeom Dayeon]
Regarding this legal AI service, Law&Company expects no issues with lawyer organizations. Um Bo-woon, director of Law&Company, explained, "We do not expect conflicts with the Bar Association regarding SuperLawyer," adding, "Since it is a tool that helps improve lawyers' work efficiency, we understand that it does not violate laws or conflict with internal Bar Association regulations."
Jung Jaesung, vice president of Law&Company, said, "In the second half of the year, we will focus on the Korean market and then consider expansion into Japan and other Asian countries," adding, "Since collecting legal data is a priority for overseas expansion, we will make concrete plans after next year."
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