We are proud to share that a Debevoise team recently advanced to the final round of the inaugural GAR-LCIA Hackathon as one of four finalists. The recognition was awarded for the team’s creation of the Arbitral Comprehensive Merits & Procedural Analysis Sequencing System, or “ARB-COMPASS,” a tool that translates complex pleadings into a structured decision-logic tree.
The hackathon challenged participants to leverage AI to build bespoke tools addressing practical problems in international arbitration. Emerging from a field of more than 60 teams across all categories, the Debevoise team was selected as one of four finalists and invited to the GAR Awards ceremony in Paris.
ARB-COMPASS, the team’s submission, is a tool that generates interactive decision-logic trees designed to help users navigate arbitration cases more efficiently and with a clearer understanding of their underlying structure. The tool uses parties’ submissions to identify the key legal and factual disputes from hundreds of pages of pleadings and organizes them into a framework that shows how those issues relate to one another. In doing so, it highlights which questions may be dispositive, which issues are independent, and how the dispute may narrow—or particular issues fall away—as different findings are made, presented in a clear and intuitive visual format.
Debevoise is excited about the project’s potential and congratulates Svetlana Portman, Mike Pizzi, Diane Bernabei, John Mark Ozaeta and Alex Nehrbass from our London and New York offices on this impressive achievement.
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