AI for Legal

Your associates spend 40% of their time on work AI can do in minutes. That's billable time lost.

Managing partners, legal ops directors, in-house counsel teams, boutique specialty firms. Your associates bill $200-500/hour and spend a huge chunk of that on reading, comparing, and flagging. AI doesn't replace the lawyer's judgment. It does the reading so the lawyer can focus on the thinking.

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The Challenge

Where legal firms lose time, money, and deals.

Document review is the most expensive inefficiency in the profession

Associates bill $200-500/hour and spend a huge chunk of that time reading contracts, comparing clauses, and flagging issues. It's skilled work but deeply repetitive. AI doesn't replace the lawyer's judgment — it does the reading so the lawyer can focus on the thinking.

Legal research is time-intensive and often redundant

A question comes in, an associate spends 4 hours researching precedent, writes a memo, and bills the client $1,500. The same question was researched 8 months ago by a different associate on a different matter. There's no system to capture and reuse that work. You're paying for the same research twice.

Client intake is manual and full of friction

Conflict checks, engagement letters, document collection, initial consultations — it all runs on email and spreadsheets. Potential clients wait days for a response. The firms that respond in hours win the business. The ones that take a week lose it.

Billing leakage is chronic and invisible

Attorneys under-report time because they forget to log it. They round down out of habit. They don't capture the 15-minute email exchange or the quick phone call. Industry estimates suggest 10-30% of billable work goes unrecorded. That's revenue that literally disappears every day.

Before / After

How a 40-page contract moves through your firm.

Same contract. Same standards. Very different hours.

Manual review~8 associate hours
  1. Associate reads clause-by-clause
  2. Cross-checks against firm clause library from memory
  3. Flags risks in Word margins
  4. Drafts redline from scratch
  5. Partner re-reads the same 40 pages
AI-assisted review~90 minutes
  1. AI parses contract against firm clause library
  2. Deviations and missing terms flagged in seconds
  3. Structured risk memo generated automatically
  4. Draft redline produced, associate refines
  5. Partner reviews the memo, not the raw doc
Automations

What AI actually does for legal.

AI-Powered Contract Review & Analysis

Automatically review contracts for risk clauses, missing terms, deviations from your firm's standards, and obligation tracking. AI does the reading and flagging. Your attorneys do the judgment and negotiation.

80% faster contract review

Legal Research with Institutional Memory

AI that searches case law, statutes, regulations, and your firm's own prior work product. Surface relevant precedents and past memos in minutes instead of hours. Stop paying for research you've already done.

10x faster research, zero redundant work

Automated Client Intake & Conflict Checks

AI-powered intake that runs conflict checks, generates engagement letters, collects documents, and responds to potential clients in hours, not days. The firms that move fastest win the client.

Same-day intake, 3x faster client onboarding

Passive Time Capture & Billing Recovery

AI that monitors attorney activity — emails, calls, document edits, meetings — and logs billable time automatically. No more forgotten entries, rounded-down hours, or revenue walking out the door.

15-30% increase in captured billable time

Due Diligence Automation

AI processes data rooms, extracts key terms, flags risks, and generates structured summaries for M&A, financing, and corporate transactions. Attorneys review conclusions, not raw documents.

5x faster due diligence
Ship as automations

These ship as stand-alone automations, too.

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What would AI save your team?

Drop in your team size. See hours and euros saved per year, with your legal defaults already dialed in.

Working hours per week

40h per person

Departments

Toggle a department on and set its team size + loaded hourly cost.

Automation packs

Pick the automations you'd consider deploying.

Estimate confidence

Low = conservative first-3-months. High = stabilized after 6+ months.
Hours saved per week
58 h
≈ 2,668 hours per year
Annual € saved
€206,080
Team hourly cost × hours saved · conservative band
Breakdown by department
  • Operations · 40h/wk · €156,400/yr
  • Finance & Back Office · 18h/wk · €49,680/yr
Payback period
Against a €12.500 reference build
< 1 month
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Case Studies

Proof, not promises.

A few of the legal teams we've built with.

Legal · 50-Attorney Firm· Commercial litigation + transactional

Contract review from 40 hours to 6, plus $210K in recovered billing

A 50-attorney firm was spending massive associate hours on contract review and losing an estimated 20% of billable time to under-reporting. We built an AI review system trained on their clause library that pre-screens contracts, highlights deviations, and generates redline suggestions. Then we added passive time capture across email and document activity.

“The first week we turned passive time capture on, we found nearly twenty thousand dollars of unbilled work. Quietly.”

— Managing Partner
Contract reviewTime captureDocument intelligence
85%
Fewer hours on contract review
$210K
Annual billing recovered
6 wks
To full adoption
Legal · In-House Counsel· Global SaaS company legal team

NDA turnaround from 3 days to same-hour

An in-house legal team of 6 was the bottleneck on every new partnership and vendor deal. Sales hated it, legal was drowning. We built a playbook-driven NDA review system that approves low-risk deviations automatically, flags the rest, and routes high-risk items to the right lawyer. Legal keeps the judgment; sales gets velocity.

Playbook reviewNDA automation
3 days → 1 hr
NDA turnaround
70%
NDAs fully auto-approved
0
Policy exceptions missed
Legal · Boutique M&A· Transactional boutique, 18 lawyers

Due diligence that keeps up with the deal

A boutique M&A firm was turning down deals because DD took too long relative to fee pressure. We built a DD automation layer that ingests data rooms, extracts key terms, flags deviations from market standard, and generates structured issue lists. Lawyers now review conclusions in hours rather than read rooms for days.

Due diligenceM&ADocument intelligence
5x
Faster data room review
+40%
More deals accepted
100%
Issues traceable to source
FAQ

Common questions about AI in legal.

Is AI-assisted legal work compliant with bar association guidelines?+

Yes, when implemented correctly. AI assists lawyers — it doesn't practice law. The attorney remains responsible for all work product, decisions, and client advice. AI handles research, drafting, and review tasks under attorney supervision. This is consistent with current ABA guidance and most state bar opinions on technology-assisted legal work.

How do you handle attorney-client privilege and data security?+

Privilege protection is built into every system we design. All data stays within your approved infrastructure. We implement strict access controls, encryption, and audit logging. AI models are not trained on your client data. We work with your firm's IT and ethics teams to ensure every system meets your privilege and confidentiality requirements.

How does passive time capture work without feeling invasive?+

The system monitors work activity — email sends, document edits, calendar events, call logs — and suggests time entries for attorney review. Attorneys approve or adjust before anything hits the billing system. It's not surveillance. It's a safety net that catches the 15-minute call and the quick email review that would otherwise go unlogged. Most attorneys appreciate it within the first week.

Does this replace paralegals or associates?+

It changes what they work on, not whether you need them. Paralegals spend less time on document assembly and more on substantive case support. Associates spend less time on initial research and more on analysis and client interaction. Firms that adopt AI well typically increase capacity and take on more matters rather than reducing headcount.

What's needed to train AI on our firm's specific standards?+

We need access to your clause libraries, template documents, style guides, and examples of reviewed/redlined work. The initial training takes 3-4 weeks. The system then improves continuously as your attorneys use it and provide feedback. Most firms see the AI matching their standards reliably within 6-8 weeks.

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