I have been working with a few legal teams, working on automating some of the key internal processes, and here are some of the learnings:
Amazed
I was astonished at the number of manual steps (I have seen manual steps, but not to this level)
Hit a wall early on
We quickly hit a wall with one of their key use case: around extracting a certain type of sentence, and then loading it into another file without changing the language. This includes everything from Lawyer names, addresses and statements, all the way through their case notes.
I found that, most Legal AI companies does the usual Generative AI parts of summarization, rewording etc really well, but they amount to a small % share of their operational framework.
I tested a number of different tools, and currently experimenting with Google Cloud Doc AI to extract sentences that are required.
Thought I’d share this with everyone. Feedback and other options you may have tried is welcome.