Why transform the way we work?
Our Purpose
Clarity, straight to the point, no legal jargon. Deep understanding of the law. Rigour and precision. Practical and commercial oriented solutions. These are our purposes.
Why Use AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and automation will be (are) key tools to ensure that we fulfil our purposes.
AI can help us to deliver greater value, more efficiently and to a higher standard, while also improving both our individual skills and the overall capabilities of the firm.
Macedo Vitorino & Key Terms
MACEDO VITORINO
Brings legal knowledge, experience in working across multiple jurisdictions, and the understanding of lawyers and business clients’ needs and expectations.
KEY TERMS
Reviews and benchmarks all LLMs available in the market against the requirements of legal users.
Multi-model solution.
Programming models to suit legal users’ needs by setting parameters and guardrails.
Continuous improvement of its solutions.
The best model for each task
ChatGPT
Reliable, Multi-Step, and Enterprise-Ready Logic.
Significantly lower hallucination rates compared to predecessors, making it a safer bet for critical tasks.
Perplexity
Optimised for verifiability of its output.
By providing inline, credible sources, it mitigates reasoning flaws with fact-checking and transparency.
Grok
Massive scale (estimated 1.7 trillion parameters).
Shows breakthrough performance on benchmarks requiring deep, philosophical deconstruction or novel solutions.
Legal Translations with AI
Use Case I: Translate
The challenge
Legal translations are complex and difficult because precision in the translation of legal concepts is crucial.
- Our choice
- Enhanced capabilities
- Our engineered pre-prompt
Translating with AI
Chat with AI. Don’t be satisfied with the first answer you get.
AI can do more than translate, it can help you improve its own output.
Translate text paragraph by paragraph. This will help identifying errors more easily, that otherwise would go unnoticed.
Read the translation carefully. Ask AI to correct its own output. Do this when you see repeated errors, such as Portuguese Brazilian.
Ask to “refine” or “improve readability”. AI can help you to reduce the text’s “localisms” and adapt to the target language’s way of writing.
Legal Research with AI
Use Case 2: Legal Research
The challenge
Traditional legal research is often manual, time-consuming, and can miss important information on large databases. LLM search is often inaccurate and misleading.
- Our choice
- Enhanced capabilities
- Our engineered pre-prompt
USE CASE 2: RESEARCHING WITH AT
Use free models (Perplexity, Grok and ChatGPT) only for basic research.
Don’t be satisfied with a single answer. Working with AI is an interactive process. Use Key Terms to question, revise or refine your Word text. Do multiple queries.
Start with a good prompt. Ask the same question to more than one model, e.g Perplexity, Grok and ChatGPT. Try Google AI.
Read the results carefully and check the links. Links to wrong or low-quality sources are a warning that the result is not satisfactory.
Copy/paste results to your Word document. Write your text. Question your opinions using Key Terms (Grok and Perplexity).
Legal Writing with AI
USE CASE 3: Legal Writing
The challenge
Legal writing is complex on its own and even more when there is a need to write in a a foreign language.
- Our choice
- Enhanced capabilities
- Use Key Terms to improve your work
USE CASE 3: WRITING WITH AI
Start with an existing text. Ask Key Terms (Perplexity) to provide or check sources of the text. Check the links provided by Perplexity.
Get a second opinion. Ask Grok to review the text or Perplexity’s output or vice versa. Check sources again and incorpoate output in your text.
Use Grok and Perplexity for a critical review of your final version. Ask Grok to refine paragraphs you may not be satisfied with or to do a final check.
A practical example
AI can be wrong! How to Mitigate AI risks
- The problem
- How can we solve it
AI helps you to do your work
Key Takeaways
Use AI to enhance your work. AI can improve the quality of your work, help you deliver results faster and with greater depth. But be mindful of the risks. Using AI must be an interactive process. First results are usually poor.
- AI does not do your work. Use AI as a tool to improve your work, but not to do it for you. Improve drafts, find information faster, and check your work. Do not delegate responsibility.
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AI can make mistakes. Answers may appear correct but can be misleading or incomplete. Check sources, links, and quoted information. Always apply your own expertise and judgement.
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Interact with AI. Chat with the model. Ask the same question to more than one model. Check the answer with other models. Ask about the same matter in different ways. Question the answers.