The firm had accumulated decades of legal knowledge across thousands of precedents, opinions, and research memos, but this knowledge was trapped in individual email inboxes and unstructured file shares. Junior lawyers spent excessive time recreating work that already existed somewhere in the firm.
NewLaw designed a phased approach: first implementing a structured document management foundation, then deploying an AI-powered legal research tool for intelligent knowledge retrieval and research augmentation. We configured security profiles to ensure ethical walls were maintained, and trained the AI models on the firm's specific practice areas. An AI drafting and review tool was integrated for document review and drafting assistance.
Lawyers can now search across the firm's entire knowledge base using natural language queries, with AI surfacing the most relevant precedents and prior work product. Research time for standard queries reduced substantially, and the quality of first drafts improved as lawyers could build on the firm's collective expertise.