Mumbai-based legal tech company LexLegis has set itself apart as “India’s answer to Harvey AI,” having opened for access as of this week.
LexLegis AI has been trained on one crore legal documents aggregated over 25 years. The AI tool is aimed at legal professionals, offering detailed analyses for legal research.
“It is to help simplify and demystify the legal complexities for everyone and to save time on the vast amounts of time that we’re spending on legal research. The tool enables users to efficiently navigate through thousands of pages and extract meaningful, actionable information,” said co-founder and managing director Saakar S Yadav.
The legal research company, which was founded in 1998, has reinvented itself this year with the goal of building an LLM for Indian law. The company was founded by the late S C Yadav, who served as the Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, and his son Saakar S Yadav.
Over the years, the company worked on several legal tech solutions. Shortly after its founding, the company developed and launched a search engine catered specifically towards legal professionals and tax consultants, to help in the understanding of the taxation domain.
Additionally, they also built the largest database of judgments in India in 2004, followed a decade later by the development of the National Judicial Reference System (NJRS), which is the world’s largest repository of appeals for the Income Tax Department.
With LexLegis AI, the company has leveraged its 25 years of experience within the industry to offer an overarching tool to help legal professionals, businesses and researchers cut down on the time used to research and find citations for relevant cases.
Speaking on the tool, Yadav stated that while the tool currently focuses on tax law, it aims to inculcate all fields of law for use.
While previously AIM has covered tools to assist legal professionals, this is one of the first Indian-made LLMs for law, focusing solely on the Indian legal system.
