Legal AI is faster only when verification is built into the workflow, because an output that arrives in seconds still must be checked before it reaches a client. When lawyers must re-verify every output from scratch, the time saved comes back as time spent checking. Every senior associate knows the feeling. The counterparty’s turn arrives late in the day, the diligence...

Your firm’s experience is more than the documents you’ve drafted and matters you’ve worked. It’s the relationships you’ve earned through hard work, the deals you’ve carefully priced and scoped to stay competitive, and the financial data that keeps your firm operating smoothly. Law firms rely on their own data to create compelling pitches, more accurate budget calculations...

AI Summary Kira’s latest release brings AI contract review closer to the finished report. Three new generative smart field types (Yes/No, Multiple Choice, and Extraction) return structured answers or verbatim excerpts from project documents. Grid Chat opens cited documents in one click, and a new skill for Lito, Litera’s award-winning Legal AI agent, creates a first draft...

Every counterparty redline that goes to outside counsel adds days to the deal and a line to the budget. The short answer: In-house legal teams can review more counterparty contracts without more outside counsel in three ways. Decide which agreements truly need specialist review. Standardize how the team responds to common changes. And use AI inside Microsoft Word that...

Your firm has already written its best clauses. Finding them at 11:00 PM is another matter. The short answer: A clause library is a curated collection of a law firm’s approved contract language, such as standard positions, fallbacks, and definitions. Lawyers often don’t use theirs because it sits outside the drafting workflow and holds only part of the firm’s negotiated...

The profession of law is starting to recognize an uncomfortable truth: much of the time AI saves was never going to be billed in the first place. Thomson Reuters has said as much, and early studies point the same way. But knowing this in general is very different from knowing it at your firm. Which activities, which timekeepers, and which clients carried those write-offs...

In redaction, a near miss is still a disclosure. The short answer: Law firms should choose redaction software on five criteria: It removes sensitive data instead of covering it It uses predictable, rules-based detection with a lawyer confirming every finding It works where documents actually leave the firm It handles several files at once It processes data in a region that...