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ARTICLE · 22 OCTOBER 2015

Tech Central: More Tech Tools Altering The Legal Landscape

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A new start-up based in Waterloo, Ontario, Beagle is an online software system that uses artificial intelligence to automatically review legal contracts and identify potentially important and/or problematic terms.

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We have noted previously in this space that lawyers today face the erosion of their services as clients restrict their legal budgets and as paralegals and other non-lawyer providers step up their forays into traditional legal services. Lawyers Alert contributor Gerry Riskin notes the impact of such non-lawyer providers on how firms must view their futures in the industry ["Illuminating the Future,"]. Some new tech tools appear poised to delve even further into that crossover.

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A new start-up based in Waterloo, Ontario, Beagle is an online software system that uses artificial intelligence to automatically review legal contracts and identify potentially important and/or problematic terms. In essence, Beagle seeks to distil at least the preliminary stages of legal analysis down into what the company calls "easy-to-read graphs and charts." The system identifies the relevant parties and highlights their responsibilities and liabilities, termination clauses,

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