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AI for law firms: the mechanical part of the case —templates, clause review, deadlines, missing documents— done on its own, and your lawyers on what gets signed
A law firm doesn't get paid to fill in templates or chase the missing power of attorney. It gets paid for legal judgment. But the day goes on the mechanical stuff: the same brief adapted case by case, reviewing the contract clause by clause, watching deadlines, chasing the client for documents. AI does that repetitive part over your case files and leaves your lawyers to review, decide and sign.
The problem
The firm gets paid for legal judgment and spends the day on keyboard work
- The same document —claim, contract, appeal, notice— is adapted case by case by hand, changing data and clauses over a template that already exists.
- Reviewing a contract or a case file is reading page by page hunting for the clause, the deadline or the inconsistency; lawyer hours on something that is, above all, attention and patience.
- Deadlines are watched with a calendar and memory: a due date that slips isn't a delay, it's professional liability.
- Half the day goes on chasing the client for the missing documents and answering the same questions —"how's mine going?", "what do you need?"— instead of on the matter itself.
Cost of staying the same
A firm's business is legal judgment —strategy, advice, the signature—, not the keyboard. But the keyboard eats the hours of whoever has that judgment, and it shows up on no invoice: it shows up as senior lawyers formatting briefs at midnight, as a deadline watched with a sticky note, as clients you can't take on because the team is already maxed out. Putting someone on to type covers the peak, not the problem: the problem is that work that doesn't need a lawyer is being eaten by the one who is one. And in law, a mechanical slip —a deadline, a badly copied clause— isn't just any error: it has consequences.
The solution
An agent that does the mechanical part of the case file and leaves the lawyer to review and sign
- 1We connect an agent to your case management system and to the sources where work comes in: the client's email, the matter folder, your document templates and your deadline calendar.
- 2It does the repetitive part of each file: drafts the brief from your template with the case data, reviews the contract and extracts the key clauses and deadlines, checks whether the file is missing documents and assembles the dossier —leaving it ready to review, not half-done.
- 3It chases the client for the documents that don't arrive and answers their routine questions —what's missing, what stage it's at, what's needed for the filing— without a lawyer turning into a switchboard.
- 4The sensitive stuff starts with a net: the AI proposes the brief, the review or the deadline alert, and a lawyer approves, until accuracy is high and you release autonomy per task type. All under control: what the system did, on which file, with what permission, and what's left to validate and sign.
What changes
What you stop losing
The mechanical part of the file stops eating lawyer hours: drafting from a template, reviewing clauses and assembling dossiers runs over the case, and the time goes back to strategy and the client.
Mechanism
Deadlines stop being watched by memory: the system extracts them from the file and alerts, so the risk of a due date slipping no longer depends on nobody getting distracted.
Mechanism
Taking on more matters stops meaning more keyboard hours: the firm grows in work that actually bills, not in formatting briefs.
Mechanism
What we measure: mechanical drafting and review hours removed per file, time to leave each brief ready to review, and deadlines controlled without relying on one person's memory.
What we measure
Spec sheet
- Work it removes
- lawyers doing keyboard work —adapting briefs from a template, reviewing contracts clause by clause, watching deadlines, chasing documents— file by file
- Typical setup
- 2–4 weeks
- Input
- what comes into each matter: a client email, a contract to review, a brief template to fill, a deadline date, missing documents
- Output
- the mechanical part done and the file ready to review: the brief drafted, the clauses and deadlines extracted, the dossier assembled and the documents chased —with anything doubtful flagged for the lawyer to validate and sign
- Works with
- WordGoogle DocsOutlookGmail
- Can connect to
- Your case management systemThe email and folders for each matterYour deadline calendar and notifications
- What we measure
- mechanical drafting and review hours removed per filetime to leave each brief ready to reviewdeadlines controlled without relying on memorydocuments chased without a lawyer chasing anyone
- Good fit for
- firms and practices handling a volume of files with a lot of repetitive drafting, review and admin work, that want to take it off their lawyers without changing case management system
- Not a fit for
- work that needs legal judgment —case strategy, advice, the defence, the professional's signature— which always stays with the lawyer
Frequently asked questions
That's the part that decides whether it works. We work over the software you already use —your case or firm management system— through its APIs and connectors, without asking you to migrate or switch. The agent reads what comes into each matter and leaves the work inside your system, in the right file. If your software is closed or some step doesn't expose its data, we spot it in the first weeks and tell you the exact bridge before billing anything.
No, it takes the keyboard off them. The AI does the mechanical part —drafting from a template, extracting clauses and deadlines, assembling the dossier, chasing documents— and your lawyers keep what you actually charge for: strategy, judgment, the defence and the signature. It's handling more matters with the same team, not less team. The professional always reviews and signs.
The lawyer, as always. The agent prepares and leaves the file ready, but the review, the legal decision and the signature stay with your team, with the context already assembled. The sensitive stuff —filing a brief, signing off a deadline— passes through a person until you decide otherwise per task type. And it's all traced: what the system did, on which file and what's left to validate, so control is demonstrable, not an act of faith.
It stays in your system. The connection accesses only what you grant —the minimum for the flow, not "everything"— and every action is traced per file, without mixing data between matters or clients. Models are used via API under contracts that exclude training on your data, and if your case requires it, it's run in private mode. Professional privilege is protected by the architecture and the permissions, not by "the AI".
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