Legal workflow automation provider Gavel announced today that it has expanded its AI-powered document automation tool, Gavel Blueprint, to support a total of 60 languages.

Previously, Blueprint support only English-language documents, while the company’s original rules-based platform supported 19 languages and is in use by legal professionals across 23 countries. Today’s news adds 59 languages to Blueprint.

The expanded coverage means that law firms can use the Blueprint AI tool to automate document generation in any of the 60 languages. Using documents you upload, the system generates language-specific questionnaires and rules-based logic. The technology can reduce document drafting times by up to 90%, the company says.

“Since the two big launches of our AI features for Microsoft Word documents and PDF forms in 2023 and 2024, we have seen tremendous interest in expanding it to other languages, particularly by firms in Canada and the EU whose lawyers work cross-border or in multiple languages,” said Dorna Moini, CEO of Gavel.

“This expansion reflects our commitment to supporting those customers and to equipping legal professionals with tools that break language barriers.”

Gavel Blueprint, which the company launched in 2023, integrates with Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Word documents, and PDFs. The platform’s AI technology analyzes legal documents in the user’s chosen language and automatically generates corresponding questionnaires and logic frameworks in that language.

Pierre Martin, Gavel’s chief technology officer, said that Blueprint’s capabilities go beyond simple transaltion, to understanding. “Gavel’s AI understands your legal documents and creates standardized processes, templates, questionnaires, and rules-based logic to generate high-quality, consistent, accurate documents every single time.”

He said that the feature has been demonstrated against benchmarks to be highly accurate and that the system understands the cultural and linguistic nuances of legal practice across jurisdictions.

The expanded language capabilities are being made available to all current Gavel subscribers at no additional cost, as part of the company’s standard subscription offering.

Law firms interested in the expanded Blueprint feature can access more information through Gavel’s website, with the company offering free trials of the platform to new users.

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