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Understanding LegalOn Assistant

Updated over a year ago

Purpose

This article provides an overview of LegalOn Assistant (LOA) and answers the following questions:

  1. What is LOA?

  2. What is the core functionality of LOA?

  3. How does LOA compare to a regular chatbot?

  4. What are some sample questions I could ask LOA?

  5. What limitations should I be aware of?

1. What is LOA?

With the power of GPT-4, the security of SOC2 compliance, and extensive training and testing by attorneys, LegalOn Assistant (LOA) is generative AI upgraded for legal professionals. You can check defined terms, locate critical clauses, draft revisions, and summarize a contract in seconds.

2. What is the core functionality of LOA?

Today, you can access LOA on the Preview, Review, Editor screens of the LegalOn Web App.

LOA's core functionality is Ask Me Anything (AMA). You can ask any questions about your contract, with certain limitations (see section "5. What limitations should I be aware of?") and get answers on legal and business terms.

Users can ask questions that are...

  • Directly related to the contract being displayed on the Preview, Review, Editor screens

    • e.g., "What does Article 18 of this MSA mean in plain English?"

  • Unrelated to the contract being displayed (or to a particular contract at all)

    • e.g., “What does force majeure mean?”

    • e.g., “As a customer reviewing an MSA, what terms should I pay closest attention to? And why?”

3. How does LOA compare to a regular chatbot?

As an AI Assistant, LOA is superior to regular chatbots such as ChatGPT and Claude. Here are a few examples:

  • LOA can read and understand text from the contract being displayed (on Preview, Review, or Editor) without the user having to copy/paste the text of the contract as a prompt.

  • LOA can be leveraged for contract types that LegalOn currently doesn’t support. (For optimal performance, we strongly recommend using LOA on the Preview page.)

  • LOA is tuned for legal knowledge and vetted for quality and style by experienced attorneys.

  • LOA exists within the web app. Users won’t need to have multiple tabs or screens open.

  • LOA carries all of our web app’s data privacy and security protections (over contract and user data). Chatbots – such as ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, Llama – do not offer a comparable level of protection.

  • LOA can answer questions about appendices, addendums, exhibits, and other “post-contract” portions – so long as (1) the contract is open/displayed on Preview, Review, or Editor and (2) their contained in the same file as the open/displayed contract

  • LOA can read PDFs.

  • LOA can answer questions about business terms, not just legal terms.

4. What are some sample questions I could ask LOA?

Here are some sample questions that you could try with LOA:

For any contract type:

  • Summarize Article XYZ in simple terms

  • What is the term of the agreement?

  • What’s the most relevant part of Article XYZ for the [insert position]?

  • What are the payment terms in this contract?

  • Which provisions of the contract survive expiration or termination of the agreement?

  • How can this contract be revised to be more favorable to [insert position]?

  • Does the contract include an equitable remedies clause?

  • Where’s the choice of forum provision in this contract?

  • Can you summarize the exhibits?

Not specific to any displayed contract:

  • What does [insert legal term – e.g., force majeure] mean and why does it matter?

  • Give me an example of an industry standard termination clause for [insert contract type]

  • Re-write [insert clause] in a manner that is more favorable to [insert position] for [insert contract type]

5. What limitations should I be aware of?

  • LOA can only read one file at a time. For example, LOA cannot perform specialized skill requiring it to read and compare more than one contract.

  • LOA is not available on the Dashboard screen and cannot read contracts that aren’t opened/displayed on the screen.

  • LOA does not include chat history.

  • LOA does not carry the chat over from page-to-page.

  • By design, LOA will occasionally tell the user that it isn’t qualified to answer a particular question.

    • For example, we don't want LOA giving predictions on who will win the Super Bowl. But there is a partial risk that LCP V1 will resist answering a legitimate question.

  • LOA provides citations/references to the contract in its answers, when relevant. The citation/reference accuracy is relatively strong (85-90% accurate) – but it’s not perfect.

  • LOA provides substantive legal answers to tough questions – but the overall quality is not perfect and will improve over time.

    • LLMs aren’t sophisticated enough yet to get every single question right, much like lawyers themselves don’t get every single question right.

  • LOA, by design, provides some answers that are specific to the contract at-hand and other answers that do not pertain to a specific contract.

    • At times, it isn’t entirely clear to the user whether LOA’s answer is contract-specific or generic (i.e., not specific to the contract at-hand).

  • LOA can read/digest saved redlines – but it does not read/digest unsaved redlines.

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