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AffiniPay, the parent company of MyCase, LawPay and other law practice management products, has entered into a partnership with Canadian AI company Caseway that will bring automated court form filling capabilities to MyCase practice management software users.
The partnership introduces a new product developed by the Vancouver-based Caseway — an AI-powered court form automation tool that can extract information from previously filed legal documents and automatically populate new court forms.
Initially launching with California court forms, the service is expected to eventually expand to all U.S. states, perhaps as soon as within a month of launch, according to Caseway founder and CEO Alistair Vigier.
How It Works
The system allows attorneys to upload previous court documents such as complaints and affidavits. When creating a new court form, the AI will automatically extract relevant information such as plaintiff and defendant names, filing locations, and case details to populate the new form.
“Essentially, a litigator would upload previous information … and when you go to fill out a new court form, which we’ve digested from all the courts in California, it will automatically fill out that form for you using the preexisting information,” explained Vigier in an interview this week.
The service will be available to MyCase customers as an add-on to their existing subscription. The price of the add-on had not been finalized as of this week.
MyCase customers will also have access to a U.S. legal research tool that Caseway plans to launch in the near future. However, that tool will be free to anyone, not just MyCase users.
Initially, users will need to navigate from MyCase to the Caseway platform to access the form-filling capabilities. However, Vigier said that deeper integration is planned for the future that would embed the functionality directly within the MyCase interface.
“As of the first version of our partnership, you would have to move over to Caseway to do it,” Vigier noted. “In the future, if there’s the more detailed integration, then everything would be done within MyCase.”
Available within A Month
The integration is expected to be completed and made available to customers within the next month, following quality assurance testing. While starting with California forms, Caseway says it can rapidly expand to include court forms from all 50 states.
“We can have it out across the entire states within one month. So it’s absolutely no challenge for us,” Vigier said, explaining that the California-only launch is intended to manage initial customer feedback before broader rollout.
Vigier could not say whether the integration would be extended to other AffiniPay products.
For Caseway, the partnership represents a shift toward providing AI solutions for larger legal technology companies rather than competing directly with established players, Vigier said, leveraging his agility as a startup to build products that larger companies want but may develop more slowly.
“Our main advantage as a startup is that we can just move on things, we can push it,” he said.
Meanwhile, as I reported last November, Caseway remains the subject of a lawsuit filed by the Canadian Legal Information Institute, a nonprofit organization that is a major provider of free legal research in Canada, alleging that it has unlawfully taken CanLII’s cases in order to build its own system.
While that lawsuit remains pending, there appears to have been little or no recent activity.