ROSS Intelligence Offers A New Take On Legal Research

Traditional legal research tools have not evolved over the last decade. For the most part, they look and function the same.

ROSS Intelligence (“ROSS”) delivers something better. Thanks to its revolutionary AI technology, ROSS quickly finds all the most relevant case law for your research questions — often finding diamonds in the rough that traditional research tools miss. This is because you can describe your legal issue, relevant facts, and procedural posture in natural language, rather than relying on clunky Boolean terms or keywords. ROSS then uses AI to interpret your query, read its entire database of all U.S. federal and state cases, and find what you need.

Am Law firms like Latham & Watkins, Dentons, Baker Hostetler, and Jackson Lewis have been among the many early adopters of ROSS. Now, ROSS is available to solo and small-firm practitioners for $125 per month with no minimum contract term.

What Sets ROSS Apart? Relevant And Comprehensive Results

We tested ROSS’s ability to identify cases that distinguish contractors from employees in New York.

We entered the following question: What is the distinction between independent contractors and employees under the New York “economic reality test” since 2016? Then, we made our question even more focused by specifying the motions we were thinking of filing and some terms related to the particular facts of our case.

In a few seconds, ROSS’s AI found leading and relevant cases and presented them in an accurately ranked list.

The top result was the Second Circuit’s pivotal Saleem decision. ROSS identified matches for each of our criteria. When we searched using traditional legal research platforms, the case was buried beneath a mountain of irrelevant results. If this were a real client matter, ROSS’s superior comprehension would have saved us hours of frustration and ensured we didn’t miss a highly relevant decision.

From its results page, ROSS allows you to click through the relevant snippets identified by its AI, allowing you to quickly review relevant portions of a case without opening it. The previews are a big time-saver when running a query that returns a lot of suitable results.

ROSS also provides custom case overviews based on your research question by extracting sentences that best summarize the decision as it pertains to your question.

ROSS’s results also indicate whether each case is still good law. Upon opening the case, you can see all the decisions that have overruled, criticized, questioned, cited, or superseded it.

ROSS’s cases have another seemingly magical feature called Find Similar Language. Find Similar Language allows you to highlight any text and quickly find other relevant decisions with similar fact patterns, issues, and judicial reasoning. Using this feature, ROSS identifies supporting cases and additional authorities within seconds — even if the cases are not cited in the decision.

Overall, ROSS feels powerful, modern, and easy to use. With its incredibly intelligent features, ROSS is a time-saver for the busy attorney.

What Is The Technology Behind ROSS?

ROSS was founded in 2014 by an attorney and two University of Toronto computer scientists who studied under Geoffrey Hinton (the “godfather” of modern AI). ROSS uses a new form of AI technology called Natural Language Understanding (“NLU”). NLU gathers the meaning of language by analyzing how words are organized and used in other contexts. That enhanced understanding of language superpowers ROSS’s search and other features. In simpler terms, ROSS characterizes words by the company they keep. If you read “the court [missing word] the plaintiffs’ motion for injunctive relief because they could not demonstrate sufficient standing,” you can fill in the blank considering the context. Now, so can ROSS.

Simple Pricing

Not only is ROSS powerful and easy to use, but ROSS is also affordable (especially given the value it provides). As opposed to the complex, multi-tiered, jurisdiction-limiting pricing models of many of its competitors, ROSS offers its full suite of features, unlimited searches, and access to its entire database of U.S. federal and state cases for only $125 per month (with zero hidden fees).

If you’re interested in giving ROSS a try free for 14 days, you can click here to sign up.