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Building the world's largest Application Programming Interface (API) for law, Vizlegal will change how legal information is utilised and understood by the legal industry.

Project description

A tool to help lawyers build their case

During and after court cases, lawyers need to process massive amounts of information; this entails finding the information, organising it and using it. However, details critical to their case can easily be missed, for example due to difficulties associated with finding and tracking court or tribunal information. The EU-funded VIZLEGAL project provides lawyers and legal librarians with access to millions of decisions, court filings, court dates and other data for them to track or search. VIZLEGAL also provides litigation intelligence in two jurisdictions. The novel solution is already enhancing the efficiency of legal professionals in locating and using legal information either from Member State public body websites or European institutions.

Objective

Vizlegal is a legal intelligence platform that empowers legal professionals to track, search and save critical legal information from EU institutions and the courts of a growing number of member states. Traditional systems are focussed on making large amounts of text searchable; Vizlegal proposes to scale our system for converting valuable public information into data, thus opening opportunities for new artificial intelligence and analytics products.

Our research says that lawyers are confronted with a number of serious issues when it comes to their work. These include; having to search court filings systems repeatedly to see if something has changed or happened; learning a key judgment relevant to them has been issued, months after the fact; inability to tell what rules of court apply in certain circumstances; inability to search or track key decisions of quasi-judicial public bodies in multiple member states.

Vizlegal aims to solve these issues by converting public government information into data, and offering new tools to address these issues. We have built a sophisticated Extract/Transform/Load (ETL) system to grab pubic information, structure it, parse it, and put it into a growing legal Application Programming Interface (API).

This API serves a web application currently serving a growing list of customers. It is also serving a data marketplace provider for UK-based finance companies. We aim to expand our data extraction via ETL, and gain more customers via a) a focus on niche data ignored by other providers and b) a ratio of accessible information to price unseen before in the industry. We will be liberating closed data into open data, and serving a key industry in any member state, and internationally. We believe that the data we gather can offer enormously valuable future products in the analytics and intelligence sphere.

Call for proposal

H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1

Coordinator

VIZLEGAL LIMITED
Net EU contribution
€ 50 000,00
Address
NOONE CASEY ACCOUNTANTS, 25 HERBERT PLACE
D02 AY86 DUBLIN 2
Ireland

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Ireland Eastern and Midland Dublin
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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Total cost
€ 71 429,00