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Product update - July 2025
QPU July 2025 Q2

Eighty-three percent of legal teams say inefficient workflows negatively impact their ability to deliver services in a timely manner. This product update is full of features that take your team’s efficiency to the next level – from more powerful search to AI enhancements – so you can work faster, scale smarter, and deliver more strategic value.

AI Legal notes for matter management

Effortlessly record case notes, decisions and internal reasoning, and then use AI to catch up in seconds.
  • Quickly capture notes and decisions to consolidate internal knowledge and create valuable context
  • Use AI to summarize – ideal for business continuity, handovers and catching up
  • Access key matter details faster with an enhanced layout
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AI Legal notes for matter management

New and improved full text search

LawVu customers love our full text search feature – now with new enhancements to help you find exactly what you need even faster.
  • Use "quick search" from anywhere in your workspace to access recent records and files without disrupting your workflow
  • More facets and filters to help you hone in on exactly what you need
  • Navigation and performance enhancements to support your growing repository
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New and improved full text search

Enhancements to the Hub

The LawVu Hub helps legal team members streamline tasks and stay on top of workload - made even better with new ways to personalize and organize for faster access and better visibility
  • Tag your favorites to pin key items you're working on directly to your Hub for quick access
  • Enjoy a personalized workspace designed for fast access to recent work and your most important files, matters, contracts, and actions
  • Customize your Hub to highlight what matters most to you, and tailor it to fit your workflow
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Enhancements to the Hub

Dioptra integration: contract reviews inside LawVu

Speed up routine reviews – like NDAs, supplier agreements and MSAs – with playbooks and seamless automation between LawVu and Dioptra.
  • Receive automatic redlines in minutes, with inline edits and comments for full context 
  • Access an extensive clause library within Word to improve consistency and reduce tab-switching
  • Utilize 600+ pre-built rules to craft your playbooks, plus an expanding library of out-of-the-box options
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Dioptra integration: contract reviews inside LawVu

What's new in Workspace IntelligenceTM

We're always adding new AI features - here's what's coming soon

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Intelligent contract upload

Stop manual data entry and get contracts and critical details into your repository faster
  • Seamlessly extract and populate key contract data upon upload, eliminating the need for manual input and reducing administrative workload
  • Fully customizable to help you focus on capturing the data that matters most
  • Enhance accuracy and streamline data entry for contracts uploaded by business users for quicker, more efficient reviews of business requests
Intelligent contract upload
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LawVu Lens: AI contract analysis

Extract, structure, and surface insights from your contracts, transforming your CLM into a strategic asset for your legal team and the wider business. 
  • Rely on AI to analyze your entire contract repository and bring hard-to-reach data to the surface 
  • Get quick answers to critical business questions with natural language search 
  • Interact with your entire repository in a single, structured interface – and easily filter, sort and share in seconds 
Early access

AI-powered Billing Guideline Review - v2

Direct feedback from early access customers has led to enhancements in LawVu's latest spend management innovation. This feature detects discrepancies in outside counsel invoices without the admin overhead that's common in other tools. The latest iteration delivers:
  • Enhanced accuracy and templates: best-practice templates make it easier to get billing guidelines in place and generate more accurate AI results
  • New dashboards: deeper insights into compliance rates and cost savings
  • Smarter review: AI uses context from matters to evaluate invoices for accuracy and compliance beyond billing guidelines
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1. Most teams struggle to have fast, secure access to legal work - but not with LawVu, a unified workspace to manage legal work. We've made it easy to find what you need with intuitive full text search capabilities. Click the search bar to start!

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2. When you click on the search bar, it automatically surfaces matters, contracts and files you've accessed recently. This will save you time if you need to get back to something you have been working on. Click continue to see how Quick Search works.

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3. Results will show up as you type, showing matter and contract records containing the keyword you typed. You can filter results by creation date, department or region. Click the Created drop down menu to filter to records created in the last 7 days.

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4. Click 'Last 7 days' to filter results.

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5. And now the results are filtered according to your selection -- it's that easy to get to a specific matter, contract, or file across the entire workspace. Click to continue.

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6. You can initiate search from anywhere in LawVu - without disrupting your workflow. In this scenario, you're looking at a matter record and you want to search for another matter you're working on. Click the search bar to start the search.

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7. This will pop open the quick search again. But this time let's see how Advanced Search works -- where you can get even more granular with your results by using more filters. Click next to continue.

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8. In this scenario, let's find any record or file related to Westwind Wind Farm. Click Advanced Search to bring up more filters to get more precise results.

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9. Advanced Search gives legal users more options for precise filters based on matter status, owner, type of records, and more. Let's filter the result set based on Matter Owner. Click Owner to continue.

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10. Now you can refine results based on a specific contract owner. In this scenario, let's select Anna Martin. Click Anna Martin to continue.

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11. With more filter options, you can refine your search and hone in on the exact information you need - even if you did not remember all the details when you started. Customers tell us that Full Text Search saves them hours every week.

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12. You're done, thanks for taking the tour! Be sure to book a personalized demo to get answers to any questions you have, we'd love to chat!

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Here's an interactive tutorial

https://www.iorad.com/player/2585676/New-and-improved-full-text-search



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1. This is the LawVu legal workspace. You are looking at the Hub. It's a personalized space where LawVu users get visibility over their workload and quick access to work in progress.

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2. You can tag work - like specific matters, projects or contracts -- as favorites and pin them here. You can also toggle to recent work. This makes it really easy to get back to things or keep an eye on work you care about.

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3. Tagging favorites is simple - just click the star icon. Favorites are automatically added to your Hub.

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4. You can also tag a matter or contract as a favorite when you're viewing or interacting with the record in your workflow. Click Add to favorites.

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5. On the Hub -- in addition to your favorites -- widgets like the Planner and Actions help you easily stay on top of key dates and tasks that need your attention. Many of these notifications are from automated workflows. Click next to continue.

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6. You can also add to-do lists, which are only visible to you. If you have dates for tasks on your to-do, they will also show up on your Planner. Click next to continue.

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7. The Hub is customizable with widgets, so you can personalize it to put the important things front and center. Click Organise to try it out.

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8. You can add or remove widgets such as a filtered list of matters, contracts, files and more. Let's add a list of My Matters to the Hub.Click Add to see Matters list options.

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9. Let's select My matters to add that view to the Hub.

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10. Click Continue

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11. Now 'My matters' has now been added to the Hub for easy access. This is a specific, filtered view of your matters. You can jump straight to a specific matter by clicking on the matter name.

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12. You're done, thanks for taking a tour of LawVu Hub! Be sure to book a personalized demo to get answers to any questions you have, we'd love to chat!

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Here's an interactive tutorial

https://www.iorad.com/player/2584895/The-LawVu-Hub-walkthrough

1. This is the LawVu legal workspace. You're now looking at a matter details page where you can access and view important information at a glance. Click next to continue.

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2. Legal notes help teams easily record and retrieve decisions, reasoning, and updates - all without switching tools or digging through separate files. It's easily accessible from this page or via a dedicated Notes tab. Click next to continue.

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3. You can access legal notes from this panel to quickly add notes and decisions so let's add a quick note here. Click Add a note to this matter

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4. With legal notes you can easily format text, add links to external sources, and attach documents from your local device. Click next to continue.

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5. You can also post it as a Status Update to broadcast a progress update to all members. Click Post as status update

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6. Click continue to save the note

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7. Your note now appears here as the latest status update, saving your time from having to manually notify members.

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8. If you need to view notes in greater details, you can view them in a dedicated tab. Click Go to notes

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9. You can also generate AI-powered summaries of your notes with a single click - perfect for quick reviews and handovers. The summary covers all notes on the matter, so you don't need to sift through each one individually. Click Summarize

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10. AI note summaries is a great tool to catch up on matter progress in seconds and easily provide updates to the business.

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11. You're done, thanks for taking our tour! Be sure to book a personalized demo to get answers to any questions you have, we'd love to chat!

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Here's an interactive tutorial

https://www.iorad.com/player/2581981/Legal-Notes