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.

The Solution

AiGiri built a contract review agent trained on the firm's precedent library, standard clause playbooks, and risk classification framework. The agent automatically classified clause types, flagged deviations from standard positions, scored overall contract risk, and generated a structured review memo ready for partner sign-off.

Implementation approach

Training began 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 existed in partners' heads but had never been documented. The agent was trained on 3,200 historical contracts with annotations from senior associates. Output was a standardised review memo format that partners could skim and approve in 15 minutes rather than 3 hours.

The Outcome

Initial contract review time dropped by 70%. Associates handled 2.3× more contracts per week. The firm reduced outside counsel spend by $180K annually by bringing contract work in-house that had previously been offloaded due to capacity constraints.