The consultation panel is a chat on the right of the window. With a case file open, you ask the case file questions in plain language, and every answer comes with its exhibit, its page and the exact sentence it comes from. With one of the client's matters in front of you, you ask the papers in that matter. With neither, you can use it to ask about anything and to read standalone documents.
It does more than answer. The chat works alongside you when papers come in, and it can take on work if you ask: splitting what is left, tidying up the matter's folders.
Opening and closing it
The Chat button in the top bar, the one with two speech bubbles, opens and closes it from any screen.
On a case file's page, Talk to the case file opens it already focused on that case file.
The X in its header closes it.
The panel opens beside the content, without covering it. You can drag the bar between them to give it more or less room, and JUDLEX remembers the width you choose. Closing it does not lose the conversation: when you open it again, it is where you left it.
What it talks about on each screen
The panel follows whatever is on screen, and each thing has its own conversation:
With a case file open, the header shows its title. JUDLEX searches the exhibits for what it needs to answer, and everything it states about the case file must come with its citation. See Ask and read the citations.
On a client's page, with a matter expanded, the header shows the matter's name. You ask the papers in that matter, even if there is no case file yet, and what it tells you about them also comes with its citation. When you come back to a matter, the panel opens its latest conversation, so what was said is still there from one day to the next.
On any other screen, the header says General question. You can ask whatever you like or drag in a document to talk about it, but there are no papers to check against: everything it answers is guidance, and you should check it.
Two case files, or two matters, are never mixed in the same conversation.
What you need
An active licence. Without it, the chat will not ask anything.
An artificial intelligence key, and to have accepted the How the AI is billed notice that appears when you add it. Each question is answered by the provider you have chosen, with your firm's key: Add your artificial intelligence key.
What is sent and what it costs
When you ask, JUDLEX sends the provider your question and:
the extracts from the papers it has found to answer it;
what has already been decided in the matter;
a summary of what JUDLEX has on record: the client, their case files, the framework of the proceedings, the parties, what is outstanding and the list of papers; with the Correspondence and filings extension, also the deadlines, the diary and the emails awaiting a reply. JUDLEX puts it together on your computer, and it carries no tax IDs, addresses or phone numbers. For a general question it is shorter: a few figures about the firm and, with the extension, the diary for the next few days;
what was said earlier in that conversation and any documents you have brought into it. Once they no longer fit, the oldest part travels summarised: A long conversation.
It goes straight from your computer to the provider; it does not go through us.
Each question is paid for with your key, at the provider's rates. At the bottom of the panel, Daily spend shows what the firm has spent on artificial intelligence so far today: Panel options.
In this section
Ask and read the citations: how to ask, what each part of the answer means and how to check it.
Attach documents: bring a paper into the conversation or into the matter, depending on where you are.
When papers come in: the chat tells you what has arrived and works on it with your go-ahead.
Give the chat some work: have it split what is left or tidy up the matter, in your own words.
Panel options: guidance, automatic steps, tone, provider, model, reasoning and today's spend.
The history: go back to a conversation, rename it or delete it.