AI use cases for legal teams
Automate contract analysis, regulatory monitoring and legal research to work faster and more reliably.
Contract analysis and review
Lawyers reread every contract by hand to spot risky clauses, inconsistencies and departures from internal standards. Bloomberg Law's 2024 analysis of contract workflows puts manual review at 92 minutes per standard commercial contract, against 22 minutes with an assisted first pass. That difference ties senior people to repetitive work where attention drops as volume rises.
Automated regulatory monitoring
Tracking legislative and regulatory change across many sources keeps legal teams busy collecting, sorting and summarising. The volume published each week exceeds the reading time available, and an important sector text can easily go unnoticed until it takes effect.
Drafting contract clauses
Drafting clauses suited to each context (contract type, jurisdiction, sector) ties senior lawyers to repetitive work. Keeping clauses consistent across the company is hard from one team to the next, and junior lawyers often work from incomplete reference templates.
Case law research and summaries
Finding and summarising the decisions relevant to a case takes hours of reading in databases that are hard to use. Lawyers spend a disproportionate amount of time spotting useful precedents among thousands of decisions, at the expense of building their argument.
Document due diligence
In M&A deals or audits, analysing hundreds of data room documents takes place under heavy time pressure. Benchmarks published by Kira Systems put the time saved on document review in mergers and acquisitions at 60 to 80%, as manual sampling is otherwise the only possible answer to high volumes.
Contract data extraction
Manually capturing key data from PDF or scanned contracts (dates, amounts, parties, specific clauses) to feed tracking spreadsheets ties up people on low-value work, with an error risk that grows with volume.
Contract clause comparison
Checking clauses proposed by third parties against the company's mandatory standards means a point-by-point comparison on every incoming contract. This painstaking check monopolises lawyers, and its quality slips as soon as the flow picks up.
Generating dispute letters
Writing penalty and dispute letters means cross-referencing a contract's terms with standard templates. Legal teams spend considerable time on formatting and cross-checks, whereas the value of the letter lies in its argument and in when it is sent.
Partnership contract audit
Analysing contractual financial flows to spot VAT irregularities, imbalances in services and missing consideration requires legal and finance teams to work together. Volumes force them to sample, which leaves part of the agreements outside the scope of the check.
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