In-house Legal Teams Cut Contract Review Time With Narrow AI Deployments

The Common Question

Is AI saving time for in-house legal teams?

The Lesson in This Case

In-house legal teams that have moved past pilot programs report meaningful reductions in time spent on routine contract review and research, though few have published hard figures to hold up against the investment. The gains tend to come from narrowly scoped deployments – document summarization, clause extraction, first-draft generation – rather than broad rollouts that promise to reinvent the legal function. Senior leaders approving AI spend in legal should demand a defined task list and a baseline measurement before signing off, because without both, there is no way to know whether the tool is paying for itself.

Originally reported by Financial Times Technology. Read the full story here.