Two Weeks Of Document Review Collapsed To 48 Hours
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Key Takeaway
Ashurst's legal delivery arm cut a document review that once took two weeks down to 48 hours by running 100,000 files through generative AI – a concrete time savings that maps directly to client cost and billing capacity. The result came from years of deliberate infrastructure-building, not a rushed deployment: Ashurst embedded lawyers, technologists, and project managers together long before the current wave of AI tools arrived. Senior leaders approving legal AI budgets should note that the firms seeing real returns built the organizational muscle first and treated adoption as a people problem, not a software purchase.
Ashurst's legal delivery arm cut a document review that once took two weeks down to 48 hours by running 100,000 files through generative AI – a concrete time savings that maps directly to client cost and billing capacity. The result came from years of deliberate infrastructure-building, not a rushed deployment: Ashurst embedded lawyers, technologists, and project managers together long before the current wave of AI tools arrived. Senior leaders approving legal AI budgets should note that the firms seeing real returns built the organizational muscle first and treated adoption as a people problem, not a software purchase.
Originally reported by Financial Times Technology. Read the full story here.
