AI-Powered Legal Solution Accelerates Drafting by 80%

Recognizing the need to elevate its AI-powered legal solution, LegalMation partnered with IBM to refine and optimize its technology. This strategic collaboration yielded remarkable outcomes, including an astounding 80% reduction in initial legal response drafting time, empowering lawyers to dedicate more time to high-value tasks.

Client:

Established in 2016, LegalMation is the brainchild of the lawyer-technologist duo James Lee and Thomas Suh. LegalMation’s platform, powered by IBM Watson, automates routine legal tasks such as early-phase response documentation, allowing law firms to focus on higher-value work. The company has been recognized for its innovation and has received awards from organizations such as the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) and the American Bar Association (ABA).

Problem Statement:

● Pressure to Reduce Costs: Driven by the 2008 Financial Crisis, clients are demanding lower fees, and law firms need to find ways to deliver high-quality services without breaking the bank. AI-powered task automation can free up lawyers and allow them to focus on more complex and revenue-generating activities
● Need for Efficiency: With tighter budgets, firms need to complete tasks faster. Automatization of repetitive tasks can significantly reduce completion times.
● Competitive Differentiation: Firms need to stand out in a crowded legal market. Adopting AI is like saying “we mean business” in the language of progress. Clients looking forward won’t just notice; they’ll come knocking.

Results:

● LegalMation slashes document creation labor costs by up to 80%.
● Lawyers save 60-80% of time on document creation.
● AI reduces 6-hour attorney work to minutes.
● Improved Accuracy and Consistency

AI Solution:

LegalMotion recognized the time-consuming nature of drafting initial legal responses and turned to IBM’s Watson to develop an AI-powered solution.

By feeding Watson thousands of lawsuits, complaints, and responses, the firm trained the AI on the nuances of legal language. To guarantee the AI’s precision and ability to generate effective responses, subject matter experts refined the outcomes.

Within six months, LegalMotion had a proof-of-concept tool ready for testing. It took the company nine months of meticulous refinement before it could release the tool to the public.

This AI solution completely transformed the way we draft initial responses, slashing the time needed from hours down to just minutes

Attorneys could simply drag and drop documentation to generate responses, reducing their workload by an estimated 80%.

References:

1. Tackling a New Legal Landscape with AI

Industry: Legal Services
Vendor: IBM
Client: LegalMation