Genie AI vs Practical Law

✅ AI-superpowered contract drafting, collaboration & review

✅ Comprehensive legal resources, know-how, and document automation

✅ Lawyer-supported AI and ML at the core of the platform

✅ AI-powered tools like Westlaw Edge AI, Fast Draft, and Drafting Assistant

✅ Enterprise-grade security measures in place

✅ Robust data encryption measures, unlike Genie

✅ Compliant with major security standards, ISO27001 and SOC2

✅ Compliant with ISO27001, SOC2, and other industry standards

✅ You own the IP of your data. We don't train our models on your data. None of our partners train their models on your data.

✅ Strict data privacy and sovereignty policies in place

❓ Multiple authentication options (coming soon) (request this feature)

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✅ Supports various authentication methods, including SSO

✅ Granular user permissions and access control features (document level, project level, organization level, party level)

✅ Granular user permissions and access control features

✅ Compliant with GDPR and other privacy regulations

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✅ Compliant with GDPR and other data privacy regulations

✅ Industry-leading AI-assisted contract drafting capabilities (all expected provisions and sections over 20 pages)

✅ Automated contract drafting with Fast Draft and Drafting Assistant

✅ Built-in real-time collaboration features just like Office365 or Google Docs (No need to download your red-lined version, and make it editable, then send it on - it's all doable within Genie)

❌ Limited real-time collaboration features compared to Genie

✅ Powerful AI-driven contract analysis, red/amber/green flag reviews every clause (industry-leading improvements coming in 2025)

✅ AI-assisted contract review with Westlaw Edge AI

✅ Manage your projects and organise your own template and clause library

✅ Comprehensive legal resources, know-how, and document automation

❓ No 'dumb' automated workflows. Agentic workflows coming in 2025

❌ Limited workflow automation features compared to specialized tools

✅ Full numbering support + AI auto-styling and formatting (coming soon)

✅ Supports complex legal styling and formatting in documents

❓ Not integrated with legal and business tools beyond full .docx compatibility. If you can use a word doc with it, you can use Genie with it.

✅ Integrates with various Thomson Reuters tools and platforms

❓ Just export to .docx and use your existing provider (request this feature)

❌ No built-in e-signature capabilities, unlike some competitors

✅ Company and user level reporting and analytics (on request)

✅ Robust reporting and analytics features for legal research

✅ AI-powered document assembly

✅ Document assembly capabilities with Practical Law's resources

✅ Market-leading AI-powered document editing: Ask Genie to edit your styling, reformat a table, or suggestion new clause text. As tracked changes, and private per party. Genie assists with and automates entire workflows, it doesn't just produce text responses.

❌ Limited AI-powered document editing features compared to Genie

❓ Top-level AI Legal Research available as AI chat within the legal document, some prompting required (request this feature)

✅ Seamless integration with Westlaw and other legal research tools

✅ Negotiation tools for multi-party clause-by-clause agreements

❌ No specific negotiation support tools unlike Genie

❓ No advanced data extraction or OCR capabilities (request this feature)

❌ Limited data extraction and OCR capabilities compared to specialized tools

✅ Mobile-optimised Web App

✅ Mobile-optimized interface for access on-the-go

❓ Coming soon (request this feature)

❌ No direct integration with third-party file storage services

✅ Community clause library available for creating modular contracts

❌ No community-driven clause library unlike Genie

Coming soon - ✅ A library of your private clauses usable only by your legal team

✅ Ability to create and manage private clause libraries

✅ Community template library available to create modular contracts

❌ No community-driven template library unlike Genie

✅ Bring your own library of private templates usable only by your legal team, within Genie

✅ Ability to create and manage private template libraries

✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word, full styling, tables, formatting compatibility

✅ Seamless integration with Microsoft Word and other Office tools

✅ No known issues (Pre-formatted templates, consistent formatting, tables, cross-version compatibility)

✅ Consistent formatting and compatibility across devices and versions

✅ Generally positive reviews

✅ Generally positive reviews, with some reported issues in specific areas

✅ Multiple support channels available including phone, whatsapp, email and live chat

✅ Multiple support channels, including phone, email, and online resources

✅ Available with our custom plans

✅ Dedicated account managers available for enterprise clients

✅ For our custom plans, get setup within 3 days with a guided onboarding plan

✅ Comprehensive onboarding and training resources available

✅ Established AI-focused legal tech company

✅ Established legal tech company with a long history of innovation

✅ Founded in 2017, deep AI integration from inception. A thick layer built with AI specialists and senior lawyers to ensure the models produce high quality legally customised outputs

✅ Decades of experience, with increasing AI integration in recent years

✅ Our AI models are built using proprietary intelligence and research supported by UCL, Imperial College London and Oxford University. Rigorous testing process to ensure the outputs are accurate

✅ Transparent about AI capabilities and limitations

✅ Over 110,000 companies have registered to use the Genie platform in total, including 11 FTSE100 firms, 20 Global200 firms, a number of top US banks, and two of the ‘big four’ UK supermarket chains.

✅ Widely adopted by law firms, corporations, and government agencies worldwide

✅ 3rd party and proprietary AI models

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✅ Proprietary AI models developed in-house

✅ Cloud-based (SaaS)

✅ Cloud-based and on-premises deployment options available

✅ Suitable for in-house legal, law firms, and SMEs

✅ Serves law firms, in-house legal departments, and government agencies

✅ Built as a platform which is versatile across various industries. Focus areas are construction, manufacturing, consultancy and legal services.

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✅ Covers a wide range of legal practice areas and industries

✅ 120+ jurisdictions including the UK, California, Texas, India, Australia, South Africa, Singapore, France, and Germany.

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✅ Global coverage, with jurisdiction-specific content and resources

✅ Generous free plan. Transparent subscription plans to suit different needs. Custom plans for orgs handling more than 10 documents per month.

✅ Subscription-based pricing, with annual licenses starting at $6,000 per user

✅ Offers SLAs for custom plans, specifics not public

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✅ Offers uptime guarantees and SLAs for enterprise clients