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Model releases, benchmark results, and notes from our work on legal AI.

Earlier posts

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Release note

LiTiL models for organizing contracts and extracting their terms

Clause Classifier and Contract Extractor work alongside our legal search models to turn contract passages into usable information.

7 min read
15

Models / benchmarks

Introducing LiTiL’s models for legal search

LiTiL released three specialized models for legal query-to-passage retrieval.

6 min read
16

Release note

Ten specialist models for legal work

Meet ten LiTiL releases for intake, privacy, contract analysis, and specialist review.

3 min read
04

Release note

The LiTiL model family: ten small models for a legal intelligence stack

Ten open, specialized models with defined jobs across intake, routing, privacy, contract analysis, and specialist review.

6 min read
05

Model note

Route the request before doing the expensive work: LiTiL Legal Request Router 1.5B

A small model that turns an incoming legal request into a structured route before the system loads the next workflow.

3 min read
06

Model note

LiTiL Legal Intake 4B: bounded decisions at the front of a legal workflow

A bounded-output model for intake decisions, routing codes, issue codes, citations, and short extracted values.

3 min read
07

Model note

A privacy checkpoint for legal documents: LiTiL Legal PII Finder

A legal-document privacy checkpoint that returns labeled sensitive spans with source offsets.

3 min read
08

Model note

LiTiL ClauseCheck 1.5B: turn contract text into a provision map

A small contract model that checks whether a requested provision appears and helps build a reviewable provision map.

4 min read
09

Model note

LiTiL ClauseTagger 4B: give contract passages a common vocabulary

A multi-label contract model that gives passages a consistent taxonomy for indexing and downstream routing.

3 min read
10

Model note

Give every contract clause a stable name: LiTiL Clause Classifier

A contract classifier that assigns one category to a provision and returns scores across the available taxonomy.

3 min read
11

Model note

LiTiL Contract Extractor 1.7B: capture the term and keep the source

A contract extraction model that returns the language answering a specific question or a stable absence value.

3 min read
12

Model note

LiTiL Contract Playbook 3B: apply the rule and return the next action

A contract-review model that applies a supplied playbook rule and returns the next structured review action.

4 min read
13

Model note

A reviewable Howey worksheet from transaction evidence: LiTiL-Howey-2b

A structured Howey-test model that maps numbered transaction evidence to the four factors for review.

4 min read
14

Model note

Compare the deal term to the draft: LiTiL Financing Review 9B

A focused financing-review model that compares an agreed term with the corresponding draft provision.

4 min read
01

Field note

The Murky Middle

The obvious cases are easy to label. Legal judgment lives in the part that depends on context.

2 min read
02

Research note

Train for the Outlier

The judgment worth teaching is not always the answer most people chose.

2 min read
03

Position

Where the Model Fits

A model should have a defined job in the stack, and the organization should be able to replace it.

2 min read