Document Processing · Enterprise Knowledge Search
The General State Attorney’s Office needed to manage and access a very large volume of legal information more efficiently so legal professionals could find relevant precedents, compare lawsuits, and prepare responses faster and more accurately.
Reported impact
The system reduces legal analysis time, improves consistency in applying criteria, frees lawyers for higher-value work, and supports more agile and accurate decision-making without removing professional judgement or supervision.
Telefónica Tech built the TEMIS application for the General State Attorney’s Office and integrated it into the institution’s digital services catalogue to make large volumes of legal documentation usable in daily legal work. The solution runs on IBM cloud technology and uses the IBM watsonx platform as the AI engine for organizing, classifying, and intelligently searching legal documents. Source legal files and previous lawsuits are brought into the system, where natural language processing, AI models, and configured virtual agents help TEMIS understand document content, surface related cases, and highlight similarities and differences in context. IBM cloud provides the scalable hosting foundation so the platform can progressively add new document sets and handle growing information volumes. The served experience gives state lawyers contextual search and precedent discovery inside existing workflows, while operating only on anonymised or de-identified information under a governed, supervised AI model lifecycle.
Legal documentation and previous lawsuits are prepared with identifying data removed and loaded into TEMIS on IBM cloud. IBM watsonx applies NLP, classification, and intelligent search to organise the corpus, compare cases, and find relevant similarities and differences. TEMIS then serves contextualised results through the Attorney’s Office digital services catalogue for state lawyers.
“Based on the artificial intelligence technology of the IBM watsonx platform, TEMIS allows users to locate related previous lawsuits, identify comparable cases and analyse relevant similarities and differences.”
“TEMIS has also been configured to operate without processing personal data... The platform works exclusively with anonymised information or information that has been stripped of identifying data.”
“TEMIS has been developed using IBM cloud technology and uses IBM Watsonx as the engine for the organisation, classification and intelligent search of legal documentation.”
“Telefónica, through its digital business unit Telefónica Tech, has developed the intelligent ‘TEMIS’ system in collaboration with IBM and integrated it into the General State Attorney’s Office’s catalogue of digital services.”
“The project aims to improve the management of and access to relevant legal information, increasing efficiency in the daily work of professionals and facilitating more agile and accurate decision-making.”
“These capabilities reduce analysis times, improve consistency in the application of criteria and free up time for higher-value tasks.”
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Traceability
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Madrid, 25 February 2026.- Telefónica is a technology partner of the General State Attorney’s Office as a result of the tender awarded to the company in 2025.
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