Everlaw Debuts New GenAI Feature, Allowing Legal Teams to Search Terabytes of Ediscovery at Once

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Everlaw Debuts New GenAI Feature, Allowing Legal Teams to Search Terabytes of Ediscovery at Once - and in Seconds

2025-03-18 20:16 Last Updated At：20:41

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 18, 2025--

Everlaw, the cloud-native investigation and litigation platform, today announced a new GenAI-powered addition to the EverlawAIAssistant portfolio, code-named Project Query, available in a closed beta program and to be demoed at Legalweek 2025, delivering an AI breakthrough for legal teams to expedite the investigation of a large corpus of documents in seconds.

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Finding the right evidence is the cornerstone of resolving legal cases. The advent of the GenAI technique called retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) promised a long sought-after capability to retrieve information exclusively within a large corpus of ediscovery in natural language. Yet the application of RAG in legal matters is stymied by the complex nature of those docs. Unlike knowledge bases or technical documentation, legal discovery, such as emails, texts and chats, are often unstructured, nuanced and require understanding context across multiple domains. In addition, the kinds of questions legal teams pose will change as the case evolves.

How Project Query Works: RAG, Refinement and Reasoning

Everlaw AI Assistant’s Project Query aims to deliver on the promise of RAG, allowing legal teams to ask questions across terabytes of ediscovery at once, while compensating for legal’s ‘unfriendly’ corpus and ambiguous exploration with an innovative process of refinement to draw relevant facts, insights and key documents with greater accuracy and reliability. Everlaw designed Project Query with the idea that legal teams may ask about more nuanced elements: behaviors, intent, actors and conditions. Query has a sophisticated refinement process to find relevant evidence for natural language queries.

Everlaw has paired its refinement approach with the latest in LLM reasoning models, which make more logical inferences and draw more nuanced conclusions that are highly valuable to legal cases. In essence, these models mimic how humans think through a problem by breaking it down into smaller, logical steps.

With those combined capabilities, Project Query is designed to uncover insights in an entire corpus of data sooner by simply asking questions related to specific issues, parties, or events and get answers in everyday conversational language in just seconds. Answers are supported with a list of facts and referenceable resources so users can dive deeper into the breakdown of information available as part of the response.

Comments on and Responses to Project Query

“Pinpointing facts in a vast corpus is gold and doing it in seconds is game-changing,” said Steven Delaney, Litigation Support Director, Benesch. “Project Query feels more elegant than keyword search, delivering answers—not just documents—instantly. By getting straight to the facts, we can save time, prioritize strategy and reshape the discovery workflow.”

“Everlaw continues to raise the bar in GenAI innovation with Project Query,” said Ryan O’Leary, research director at IDC. “It’s one of the most practical AI applications I’ve seen in discovery—enabling investigation before review in seconds. With its ease of use, Project Query promises to instantly boost efficiency and deliver a significant impact for legal teams.”

“Project Query holds great promise for legal professionals – especially senior attorneys who for the first time can interrogate massive document sets at once, applying their honed expertise and instincts to find key evidence,” said AJ Shankar, founder and CEO of Everlaw. “In the AI arms race now shaping up in courtrooms across the country, Project Query could give tech-savvy legal teams an unmistakable edge.”

To give legal professionals confidence in the results of their Project Query work, Everlaw designed it to ensure:

Availability

In this closed beta testing of Project Query, Everlaw will provide access to a select number of customers to help test and iterate on the product. Everlaw conducted a year-long beta for its AI Assistant, which was generally available in Fall 2024. For Project Query, Everlaw anticipates general availability this year.

About Everlaw

Everlaw helps legal teams navigate the increasingly complex ediscovery landscape to chart a straighter path to the truth. Trusted by Fortune 100 corporate counsel, 91 of the Am Law 200, and all state attorneys general, Everlaw's combination of intuitive experience, advanced technology, and partnership with customers empowers organizations to tackle the most pressing technological challenges—and transform their approach to discovery and litigation in the process. Founded in 2010 and based in Oakland, Calif., Everlaw is funded by top-tier investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, CapitalG, HIG Growth Partners, K9 Ventures, Menlo Ventures, and TPG Growth. Follow us on LinkedIn.

Dozens presumed dead and about 100 injured in fire at Swiss Alps bar during New Year's celebration

CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland (AP) — Dozens of people are presumed dead and about 100 injured, most of them seriously, following a fire at a Swiss Alps bar during a New Year’s celebration, police said Thursday.

“Several tens of people” were killed at the bar, Le Constellation, Valais Canton police commander Frédéric Gisler said.

Work is underway to identify the victims and inform their families but “that will take time and for the time being it is premature to give you a more precise figure," Gisler said.

Beatrice Pilloud, attorney general of the Valais Canton, said it was too early to determine the cause of the fire. Experts have not yet been able to go inside the wreckage.

“At no moment is there a question of any kind of attack,” Pilloud said.

Officials called the blaze an “embrasement généralisé,” a firefighting term describing how a blaze can trigger the release of combustible gases that can then ignite violently and cause what English-speaking firefighters would call a flashover or a backdraft.

“This evening should have been a moment of celebration and coming together, but it turned into a nightmare,” said Mathias Rénard, head of the regional government.

The injured were so numerous that the intensive care unit and operating theater at the regional hospital quickly hit full capacity, Rénard said.

Helicopters and ambulances rushed to the scene to assist victims, including some from different countries, officials said.

“We are devastated,” Frédéric Gisler, commander of the Valais Cantonal police, said during a news conference.

The injured were so numerous that the intensive care unit and operating theater at the regional hospital quickly hit full capacity, according to regional councilor Mathias Rénard.

The municipality had banned New Year’s Eve fireworks due to lack of rainfall in the past month, according to its website.

In a region busy with tourists skiing on the slopes, the authorities have called on the local population to show caution in the coming days to avoid any accidents that could require medical resources that are already overwhelmed.

The community is in the heart of the Swiss Alps, just 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of the Matterhorn, one of the most famous Alpine peaks, and 130 kilometers (81 miles) south of Zurich.

The highest point of Crans-Montana, with a population of 10,000 residents, sits at an elevation of nearly 3,000 meters (1.86 miles), according to the municipality’s website, which says officials are seeking to move away from a tourist culture and attract high-tech research and development.

The municipality was formed only nine years ago, on Jan. 1, 2017, when multiple towns merged. It extends over 590 hectares (2.3 square miles) from the Rhône Valley to the Plaine Morte glacier.

Crans-Montana is one of the top race venues on the World Cup circuit in Alpine skiing and will host the next world championships over two weeks in February 2027.

In four weeks’ time, the resort will host the best men’s and women’s downhill racers for their last events before going to the Milan Cortina Olympics, which open Feb. 6.

Crans-Montana also is a premium venue in international golf. The Crans-sur-Sierre club stages the European Masters each August on a picturesque course with stunning mountains views.