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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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