What's new in ArsLex Associate

A wave of Discovery Suite work, and two changes to custody

The short version is below. The full note, written for the attorneys doing the review, is on the what's new page. Some items are switched on per firm, so ask us if you do not see one.

• Bulk coding, with a preview. Code a whole search result in one action, after a preview showing what changes, which families come along or would end up split, and every document where the AI's read disagrees with the call. Advisory only. One action reverses the whole gesture.
• Inclusive email thread review. Review the messages that carry the conversation instead of the same quoted text repeated down a thread, with the rest following on a recorded basis.
• Batches carved by topic, and reviewer throughput per person.
• Quality control sampling that can be reproduced, optionally weighted toward the riskiest disagreements, with the method stated in words on every report.
• A better AI first pass on long documents, reading the passages that bear on your criteria rather than the front of the file, and disclosing which pages it read.
• Search by concept, and a production grouped into subject clusters.
• Serve and freeze. A served production locks, so the record still matches the certificate later.
• Inbound clawback by Bates range, with any shortfall between the range and what you hold reported rather than rounded off.
• Custodian captured on self-collected uploads, not only on load-file imports.
• Processing exceptions in plain sight, including password-protected Office files, which are now detected rather than passing as empty documents.
• Search-term reports, validation sampling, personal identifier scanning, the privilege roster, Bates gap checks and exhibit lists are all first-class in the main workspace.
• Protective order awareness when a produced document is cited in a brief drafted in ArsLex Associate.
• An encryption key of your firm's own, on request, with cryptographic deletion behind a warn, confirm and wait ladder that can never run quietly.
• Long jobs prove they are working, rather than reporting a heartbeat while frozen.

A cleaner, faster taskpane

We rebuilt the add-in's interface around how attorneys actually read and draft. Everything below is live now — the add-in updates automatically the next time you open it in Word.

• A real reading view. Opening a case or deposition now fills the pane with a single scrolling view and a back button — no more scrolling a document inside a card inside a list.
• Drop a case on an outline point. Drag a case onto a point in your brief outline and choose whether to attach it to that point alone or to the point and every sub-point beneath it.
• A look that matches ArsLex. The interface now carries the same palette as arslex.ai, and a new Dark theme is available in Settings.
• Smoother throughout. Subtle animations, consistent dialogs and dropdowns, and clearer empty states across the app (all of it respects your system's reduced-motion setting).

We've launched — early access is open

ArsLex Associate is live on Microsoft AppSource. Early access is now open to all legal professionals, and every plan starts with a 14-day free trial. (A founding launch rate was offered with this announcement; that offer has since closed.)

Available at launch, all inside Microsoft Word:

• Cite-anchored drafting grounded in the evidence you select, with pin cites
• Automatic Bluebook citation formatting (long form, short form, Id., slip opinions)
• Drag-to-cite from the case viewer straight into your draft
• Response Planner — mark allegations Admit / Deny / Partial and generate a formatted Answer
• Deposition digests with page-line citations
• Automatic case highlights on upload, and cross-document search

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