Sullivan & Cromwell's In-House LAER AI Lab Builds AIDA Discovery Assistant
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S&C has worked with and invested in AI since 2015; two post-doctoral researchers set up a lab (LAER AI) inside S&C's offices, sponsored by senior partner Joseph Shenker, producing AIDA (AI Discovery Assistant), which automates first-level document review in litigation and is trained on dozens of past cases.
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