ONP Group and Xperate have announced a collaborative project to develop a Microsoft add-in for Outlook and Word specifically designed to address the needs and concerns of the legal profession.
Legal PAI (Personal Artificial Intelligence) leverages the capabilities of ChatGPT, an AI-powered language model, to assist law firms in drafting and responding to documents and emails.
Legal PAI is focussed on the legal sector with the ability to include sensitive data in the draft responses without that data ever being submitted to ChatGPT, overcoming privacy concerns that law firms have with this new technology.
As a result, Legal PAI can access information in the law firm’s Practice and Case Management System (PCMS) and its creators are confident that no actual data is disclosed. Additional safeguards have been added to ensure a full audit trail of all requests and responses to ChatGPT is maintained.
Andrew Taylor, Chief Technology Officer at ONP Group, said:
“Technological developments are changing the way we live and work by the day and, at ONP Group, we aim to be at the cutting edge of this development, improving experiences for our clients, enabling our teams to do the best work of their lives, and speeding up the whole legal process.
We found the perfect partner for this project in Xperate, as they are a leading development company that really understands the capabilities of AI in the legal industry.”
ONP Group and Xperate empathise that the aim is to help lawyers become “increasingly effective and improve” their interaction with clients. The objective will also be to improve the experience for the clients, providing them with the information they need, when they want it and in a way that is easy to understand.
Mark Garnish, Chief Operating Officer of Xperate, added:
“We are used to being asked to get involved in development projects at the leading edge of legal technology innovation and were delighted when ONP Group asked us to work with them on this initiative; this development will revolutionise the way that lawyers interact with email and word in the future.”
Xperate will be launching an early adopter program for a small number of firms in the UK and the USA to help them get the right balance between harnessing the power of ChatGPT and understandable privacy concerns.
