The University of Mons is at the forefront of artificial intelligence adoption in French-speaking Belgium, particularly in the legal field. Its Research Administration Department, which provides researchers with legal support for their collaborative projects, has chosen Jimini as its AI co-pilot for day-to-day work.

Jimini is an artificial intelligence co-pilot designed for legal professionals. It helps lawyers research, analyse and draft more efficiently, drawing on the most advanced language models while meeting the profession's confidentiality requirements.

The University of Mons Research Administration Department handles a varied and highly technical range of contracts. Its lawyers draft and negotiate research agreements, collaboration agreements with companies and other universities, service agreements and non-disclosure agreements. They also advise on intellectual property matters and conduct specific legal research to support scientific teams.

Every contract is unique: it must be analysed, adapted to the project's context and made secure before signature. The UMONS legal team now uses Jimini in this setting to facilitate certain stages of its work, such as analysing, comparing and preparing documents.

A tool that supports lawyers

The principle that guided UMONS in adopting Jimini is clear: the tool supports lawyers; it does not replace them. The University of Mons explains:

"For the professions that support research, artificial intelligence is not intended to replace human expertise. It can, however, become an additional tool for improving efficiency while maintaining the same exacting standards when analysing matters. UMONS and Jimini began their collaboration with this aim: to provide our teams with a specialised legal tool in a framework suited to the confidentiality and rigour requirements specific to research contracts."

The lawyers can therefore spend more time on issues that require their expertise, experience and knowledge of each project's particular context.

Jimini continues its expansion in Belgium

This partnership with the University of Mons forms part of Jimini's development beyond France, in French-speaking Belgium, where the shared civil-law tradition facilitates adoption of the tool. The platform's gradual integration of open Belgian legal sources supports this momentum.

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