‘Get Me the Cases’Davidoff said he had long resisted entering the legal research market, which he considered well saturated. What changed his mind was a gap he perceived in the current crop of AI research tools, rooted in his own years of practice. Most AI legal research products these days are built around the opposite model, where you ask a question and get back a researched and validated answer. In developing this product, Davidoff told me, he is not gunning for Westlaw or Lexis: “They have amazing databases that they’ve built up. But Align Research is clearly staking out an approach at odds with where most of the market is heading.