Everlaw Brings Frontier AI Closer to the Evidence with ChatGPT Plugin
New plugin connects Everlaw’s governed evidence layer with ChatGPT Enterprise
The most capable AI is only as useful as the information it can work with.
For lawyers, that creates a particular challenge. The information that matters in litigation rarely arrives in a neat set of documents ready for analysis. It can span millions of emails, chats, spreadsheets, transcripts, images, and other records, surrounded by metadata and matter context that can be essential to understanding what actually happened.
Today, Everlaw is announcing a plugin with ChatGPT Enterprise, helping legal professionals put frontier AI to work directly on that evidentiary record.
The plugin connects Everlaw’s evidence layer for legal AI with ChatGPT, giving practitioners a way to access and interrogate their case materials while drawing on Everlaw’s capabilities for organizing, searching, and understanding complex matters.
It brings two complementary forms of technology together: frontier intelligence capable of reasoning across information and an evidentiary foundation designed specifically for the scale, complexity, and demands of legal work.
From Frontier Intelligence to Matter Intelligence
Ask an AI system a general question and it can draw on an enormous body of knowledge.
Ask it what happened in your case and the problem changes.
What evidence has been collected? Which documents relate to this company? What does the record say about this issue? What facts contradict our theory of the case?
Answering those questions requires more than intelligence. It requires access to the matter itself—and the tools to make sense of it.
That is the role Everlaw plays as the evidence layer for legal AI.
Through Everlaw’s new plugin, ChatGPT Enterprise users can connect directly with the evidence and information a user is authorized to access in Everlaw. Instead of treating litigation data as a static collection of files exported into another environment, lawyers can work with Everlaw while tapping into the structure, context, search, and analytical capabilities of the system where their evidence already lives.
The result is an AI environment that can become far more matter-aware.
What Lawyers Can Do With Everlaw's ChatGPT Enterprise Plugin
Everlaw’s plugin is built on a foundation of defensibility and security. Outputs are linked directly to the supporting documents behind the answers, so verification and validation is quick and seamless. Existing permission structures are preserved. Users and their agents can see exactly what that user could see if they logged into Everlaw themselves — no more – and documents are accessed on demand, without needing to be exported, replicated, or absorbed into a partner environment.
The Everlaw plugin gives ChatGPT Enterprise users access to a set of Everlaw capabilities for understanding matters, finding evidence, analyzing information, and supporting early case insights.
Get Oriented to a Matter
A lawyer joining a case can begin by asking what Everlaw projects, binders, or datasets they have access to, then drill into the materials relevant to their work. Rather than navigating a matter blind, they can use natural language to understand how the evidentiary record is organized and where to begin.
Search and Understand the Corpus
Practitioners can use the Everlaw plugin with ChatGPT Enterprise to help identify documents associated with a person, organization, issue, or event and interrogate the evidence held in Everlaw. As the integration expands, we expect increasingly sophisticated search and corpus-analysis workflows to make it possible to move from a legal question to the relevant portions of the record with fewer intermediate steps.
Develop an Early Understanding of the Case
Early case assessment often means moving quickly from a large, unfamiliar collection to an initial view of the facts: the important custodians, communications, themes, timelines, and areas requiring deeper investigation. The Everlaw plugin creates new possibilities for exploring that record, narrowing the universe of relevant material, and turning the results into useful analysis and visualizations.
Understand How Work Is Progressing
The integration can also support operational questions about matters and teams, including project, usage, analytics, and billing information. That gives legal professionals and administrators another way to understand not only the evidence in a matter but the work surrounding it.
And those examples capture only some of what becomes possible when an AI system can work directly with the evidentiary foundation of a case.
Moving Responsible AI Forward in the Law
The Everlaw plugin reflects a broader push to help legal professionals put AI to work effectively and responsibly, including in areas where access to technology and resources can be limited. Earlier this year, Everlaw participated in an OpenAI Academy series with the Legal Services National Technology Assistance Project for legal aid and access-to-justice professionals, covering AI foundations, practical workflows, and responsible use. The programs explored how practitioners can use tools like ChatGPT for drafting, summarization, planning, and information organization while navigating considerations such as confidentiality, accuracy, human review, and equity.
Expanding responsible AI adoption in the law requires both the knowledge to use these systems well and access to the information that makes them useful. The Everlaw plugin connects ChatGPT more directly with the evidence and matter context in Everlaw, legal professionals can leverage sophisticated AI capabilities while preserving the controls and professional judgment the practice of law demands.
One Evidence Layer, Across a Growing AI Ecosystem
Legal AI is moving quickly from tools that help lawyers generate content toward systems capable of participating in increasingly sophisticated legal workflows.
That makes access to reliable evidence more important than ever before.
Lawyers seeking to assess a case, investigate an issue, prepare an argument, or understand a witness don’t need just powerful AI models alone. They need to know what the record actually says.
By connecting ChatGPT Enterprise with the Everlaw plugin, frontier AI moves closer to that record— making Everlaw’s evidence layer available in another place where the future of legal work is taking shape.
It is another step toward a simple goal: wherever lawyers choose to work, the evidence should be ready to work with them.
The Everlaw plugin for ChatGPT Enterpirise is available today to joint Everlaw and ChatGPT Enterprise customers. To learn more about Everlaw and Everlaw’s ecosystem of integrations, request a demo today.
