Contract Review Acceleration for a Legal Services Firm

The Challenge

A 60-attorney firm had junior associates spending 60% of their billable hours on initial contract review — identifying standard clauses, flagging non-standard terms, and summarising risk areas before partner review. Partners wanted to redirect associate time to higher-value drafting and client work, but couldn't without accelerating the review step.

Proposed Solution

AiGiri would build a contract review agent trained on the firm's precedent library, standard clause playbooks, and risk classification framework. The agent would automatically classify clause types, flag deviations from standard positions, score overall contract risk, and generate a structured review memo ready for partner sign-off.

Proposed Approach

Training would begin with a precedent library audit to extract and formalise the firm's implicit review standards — clause classifications, acceptable deviation thresholds, and risk scoring criteria that exist in partners' heads but have never been documented. The agent would be trained on historical contracts with annotations from senior associates. Output would be a standardised review memo format that partners could skim and approve in minutes rather than hours.

Proposed Outcome

Initial contract review time is projected to drop by 70%. Associates would handle significantly more contracts per week. The firm would be positioned to reduce outside counsel spend by bringing contract work in-house that has previously been offloaded due to capacity constraints.