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Summarize a legal request or matter by using Now Assist for Legal Service Delivery (LSD)

Generate a summary from the fields that you selected on the legal request or matter record and quickly understand the request context by using the Legal Request or Legal Matter summarization skill in the Now Assist for Legal Service Delivery (LSD) application.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_lg_gen_ai.request_fulfiller

About this task

The Legal Request or Legal Matter summarization skill provides you with a concise summary of a legal request or legal matter, including the actions taken and resolution details. By viewing a summary, you can understand the context, refresh the summary, and post the summary to the work notes.

You can configure the variables of practice areas that you want to be considered as inputs for legal request or matter summarization by using the Now Assist application. To add variables, see Configure variables for Now Assist summarization.

The summarization skills are available in Legal Counsel Center and in Core UI.

  • In Legal Counsel Center, you use the Legal Request summary by Now Assist component to generate a summary. This component appears above the activity stream.

    Note: You can also generate a summary on demand from the Now Assist panel. For more information, see Use the Now Assist for Legal Service Delivery (LSD) capabilities from the Now Assist panel.

  • In Core UI, you select the Summarize button on the legal request or matter record to generate a summary.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Workspaces > Legal Counsel Center and open a legal request or matter.

  2. In the Legal Request summary by Now Assist component, select Summarize.

    The summary by Now Assist component appears above the activity stream.

    Note: Generating and displaying the summary may take several seconds.

  3. When you finish summarizing a record, you can add it to the work notes, expand or collapse it, provide feedback, copy it, or view information about it.

OptionProcedure
Save the summary information by adding it to the work notes
  1. Select Share as Work notes.
  2. In the Share to work notes dialog box, edit the summary.
  3. Select Save to Work notes.
Expand or collapse the summarySelect the expand card icon \(
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Expand card icon.\) or the collapse card icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-collapse.png"\] Alt text: Collapse card icon.\) to see more details or fewer summary details.
Provide feedback for the summaryIf you think that the summary was helpful, select the helpful icon \(
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Helpful icon.\). If you think that the summary wasn’t helpful, select the not helpful icon \(\[Omitted image "icon-not-helpful.png"\] Alt text: Not helpful icon.\).This feedback improves the generative AI model and can help to improve the future versions of this skill. The system gathers the feedback on each generated summary and stores it in the generative AI logs \(sys\_generative\_ai\_log\_list.do\).
Copy the summarySelect the copy to clipboard icon \(
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Copy to clipboard icon.\) to use the summary information for another purpose, such as pasting into an email.
Refresh the summarySelect the Refresh icon \(
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Refresh icon.\) to summarize the request again.
View the information about the summaryIf you want to check some details about the summary, select the more info icon \(
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More info icon.\).
ElaborateSelect elaborate to get more comprehensive summary with additional details.

Parent Topic:Using Now Assist for Legal Service Delivery (LSD)