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Time capture and billing narratives: AI for the billable hour
Most fee earners rebuild at least part of their week from memory. A phone call runs long between two meetings, or a contract mark-up gets read on the train. By Friday the time sheet is pieced together from the calendar…
#time-recording#billing-narratives#practice-management#legal-tech#human-in-the-loop
Matter intake, conflict checks and entity resolution
New enquiries reach a law firm as emails, web forms and phone notes typed up by reception. Before anyone opens a matter, someone has to work out who every party is and whether the firm has acted for or against any of…
#matter-intake#conflict-checks#entity-resolution#practice-management#llm
A research assistant grounded in your own precedents and knowledge
A senior associate wants to know how the firm usually drafts a limitation of liability clause for a software supply agreement. The answer is in the firm somewhere, either in the precedent bank or in a file note a…
#retrieval-augmented-generation#legal-technology#knowledge-management#access-control#law-firms
Contract review and clause extraction: what AI can and can't do
The first AI idea most firms have is to paste a contract into a chat window and ask what's wrong with it. The output reads well. It names a few issues, sounds confident, and gives a partner no way to tell whether the…
#contract-review#clause-extraction#legal-tech#llm#document-automation
Practical AI for Law Firms: the series
Most of what law firms hear about AI sits at one of two extremes. Either the technology is about to replace junior lawyers, or it is a liability waiting to happen because a court somewhere sanctioned a practitioner for…
#legal-technology#document-review#legal-research#confidentiality#automation