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Using VitalLaw® Expert AI

VitalLaw® Expert AI - Conversational Chat

Clarify complex legal concepts, uncover valuable connections between primary laws and secondary analysis, and generate client-facing materials.

Last updated on 13 Mar, 2026

First, click the Expert AI button on the global command bar.  

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Begin your first conversation

Enter your prompt in the Ask VitalLaw® Expert AI here field along the bottom of the window.  If you have previous conversations, your chat history appears in the left pane.  Click any previous conversation to review or continue the exchange.  At any time, you can begin a new conversation by clicking the command.

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You can perform a wide range of tasks - ask questions, summarize documents, generate client-facing materials and practical content, etc.  There is no limit on the number of questions you can ask.  For help formulating your prompt, see Writing Effective Prompts

Once you have entered your prompt, click the chevron.  

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The VitalLaw® Expert AI automatically identifies the best matches across your entire subscription to present you with the best answer. 

Show thinking

Expand Show thinking for a list of linkable documents, considered by VitalLaw® Expert AI, to formulate your answer.  These 'thinking' sources provide a roadmap of the content Expert AI was 'looking at'.  By examining these steps, you can determine the correct AI path, surface additional questions and potential prompts, reducing the research burden. 

Pincites

Save research time with direct, pinpoint access to the exact portions of the document (highlighted in blue) that provided the AI Answer. Pinpoint Citations provide transparency, allowing you to jump directly from the answer to authoritative source material with a single click.

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Sources

While Show thinking provides a list of all the documents Expert AI considered, the Sources links, at the bottom of the answer, are specific onpoint linkable documents.  Once you have arrived at a document from a source link, all the pincite highlights referenced in the answer will be visible.

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Thumbs Up/Down icons allow you to react to the answer.  Your responses are analyzed by our editors to improve our results and answers.  Use the copy icon to copy/paste the entire conversation.

 

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