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Model releases, benchmark results, and notes from our work on legal AI.
Earlier posts
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.
15Models / benchmarks
Introducing LiTiL’s models for legal search
LiTiL released three specialized models for legal query-to-passage retrieval.
16Release note
Ten specialist models for legal work
Meet ten LiTiL releases for intake, privacy, contract analysis, and specialist review.
04Release 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.
05Model 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.
06Model 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.
07Model note
A privacy checkpoint for legal documents: LiTiL Legal PII Finder
A legal-document privacy checkpoint that returns labeled sensitive spans with source offsets.
08Model 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.
09Model 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.
10Model 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.
11Model 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.
12Model 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.
13Model 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.
14Model 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.
01Field note
The Murky Middle
The obvious cases are easy to label. Legal judgment lives in the part that depends on context.
02Research note
Train for the Outlier
The judgment worth teaching is not always the answer most people chose.
03Position
Where the Model Fits
A model should have a defined job in the stack, and the organization should be able to replace it.