The law library has a subscription to a variety of AI resources for students, including Large Language Models (LLMs). Students have access to free general use LLMs and several legal-specific LLMs. Here is a list of some options and their offering and cost.
General Use LLMs:
- Open AI ChatGPT:
- Free to use GPT-3.5.; $20/month for Pro GPT-4
- Free: GPT-3.5 and only text generation.
- Pro: GPT-4 includes:
- uploads
- image generation
- GPT creation
- GPT store — Which allows the user to pick a more specific LLM such as a logo creator or Planty the plant care assistant. These LLMs are created by users.
- Microsoft Copilot: Powered by GPT-4 and Free.
- If signed into Microsoft, the LLM can do more such as generate images.
- Anthropic Claude: More focused on work tasks such as helping generate emails.
- Basic Version: Free to use and allows uploads
- Pro: 20$/month
- Google Gemini: Free to use.
- Allows chat capabilities, as well as image generation.
- Perplexity: Made to explain concepts. Free to use.
Legal-Specific LLMs:
- Lexis+ AI:
- Available for free to law students as part of their Lexis+ subscription.
- Can draft, summarize and research using the Lexis+ database
- Vincent vLex:
- Contact Nick Hafen at nick.hafen@law.byu.edu to participate in a limited pilot.
- Research assistant AI: helps with legal research, drafts legal documents, identifies authorities, designed for user autonomy
- Access to comparative and international research
- Paxton AI:
- Free if a student signs up with their law school email address.
- Platform includes: file sharing, AI chat feature, drafting, case law searching, citations, natural language researching, employee/associate training, answers regulatory questions
- Casetext CoCounsel:
- does not have free access but has a free trial
- powered by ChatGPT-4
- legal research, deposition prep, doc review, contract revisions and other transactional & litigation tools
- LawDroid Copilot:
- free academic use
- intake clients, document automation, research legal issues, draft emails & letters, summarize documents
- Midpage AI:
- litigation and research focus & free to use
- allows you to research case law, organize notes, draft documents & compare facts
- Ask Blue J:
- tax-focused program; has a demo program
- provides answers to tax questions, helps with drafting & research assistance,
- descrybe.ai:
- case law research focus & free to use
- search for and understand case law, easy access to case law, use natural language search and summarization, millions of cases summarized and searchable
- Alexi:
- litigation and research focus, free trial
- generates legal memos, crafts litigation arguments, can draft emails and documents, answers basic questions about law, procedure or strategy
- OpenAI GPT Store:
- user-created specialized models
- has different GPTs that are designed for specific tasks: writing, research as well as education, lifestyle or productivity
- Westlaw Precision AI:
- This is part of what is available to all law students on Westlaw
- Provides answers to legal questions, links to various types of sources on Westlaw
Possible Uses of AI as a Student:
Currently, there is no formal school-wide policy at BYU Law School on the use of AI, however professors have been given the option to include parameters allowing and disallowing certain uses of the software in their individual classes.1 Check your syllabus to make sure you are in-line with what is allowed for your classes!
If allowed, AI might be useful in the following contexts:
- Synthesizing legal sources
- Drafting documents
- Gathering relevant sources
If you have any questions or if the information here is out of date, please contact BYU Law Librarian Nick Hafen at nick.hafen@law.byu.edu.
Information for this blog post from: https://guides.law.byu.edu/c.php?g=1386257&p=10251793)