Hawaii Disability Legal Services cuts research time significantly with CoCounsel AI-Assisted Research

Hawaii Disability Legal Services deployed Large Language Models & Generative AI for Legal Research & Case Law in Law Firms. legal.thomsonreuters.com reports no complete outcome metric.

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What Hawaii Disability Legal Services was trying to fix

Diane Haar's practice at Hawaii Disability Legal Services spans the Hawaiian Islands and Pacific territories, requiring her small team to work across vast distances.

What Hawaii Disability Legal Services deployed

The firm uses Westlaw Precision with CoCounsel. Haar uses Westlaw's AI-Assisted Research feature as a starting point and follows verification steps: "You always need to double-check the work. You still have to read the cases."

Results

Haar says CoCounsel's AI-powered research capabilities let her complete complex legal work more quickly and support more clients without driving up costs, while maintaining the quality her clients expect. In her words: "The time savings is massive, and time is money."

Key Takeaways

  • Haar treats AI-Assisted Research as a starting point and still verifies the cases it cites.
  • She credits her technical know-how for getting the most value from the tool while keeping professional standards intact.
  • A small team that works across vast distances reports being able to support more clients without driving up costs.

Evidence for Hawaii Disability Legal Services's Legal Research & Case Law deployment

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