Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm, with 2,600 people spread out across 21 offices. Operating across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the US, we’re famous for our innovative approach, our dynamic and collaborative culture, and our commitment to delivering the highest quality service. Our office in Cambridge, conveniently located near the train station, offers a short journey to our global headquarters in London, enhancing our connectivity and collaboration across regions.
We encourage our people to have enquiring minds and to share ideas that can drive the firm forward, ensuring along the way that everyone’s voice is heard, irrespective of job title, qualification, or background.
We were the first regulated legal engineering business in the world – formed in 2016 and acquired by Simmons & Simmons in 2019. Simmons Wavelength is where our legal and technology expertise combine. Our team of legal engineers use data science to solve complex problems. We bridge the gap between lawyers, legal technology, data, and design – integrating creative solutions to meet any legal or business challenge.
Simmons & Simmons is proud to be leading the way with our development and adoption of Generative AI and has a strong history of embracing new technology to improve our client offering. We use several AI applications and tools; chief among them is our own Percy AI, a truly unique Generative AI tool named after one of the twin brothers who co-founded the firm. Percy is distinct from many of the typical tools deployed in the legal profession, powered by a purpose-built Legal Inference Engine and developed in-house by our LLM team. Percy is a central part of the firm’s strategy to set the standards of technology and innovation in the legal industry and become a Next Generation Law Firm.
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Drew Winlaw, Partner and Global LLM Lead
Ali Chaudhry, Legal Engineer
Vandy Widyalankara, Evolve Intern
In high-stakes litigation, parties often rely on numerous expert reports, each hundreds of pages long, to support complex arguments around topics such as damages, regulatory breaches, governance failures, market conduct and more. A single case may involve dozens of reports from different experts, each with unique insights, positions, and methodologies. Currently, lawyers and analysts must manually retrieve, cross-reference, and compare what different experts say about the same topic, making the process slow, expensive, and error-prone.
How might we build an evidence mapping solution that connects key entities, concepts, and positions from across multiple expert reports in a litigation, so that legal teams can quickly understand what each expert says about a specific topic, and how their views relate, support, or contradict each other?
Develop a context enhanced evidence mapping solution that enables one-shot querying such as: