Business function

AI use cases for legal

Contract review, legal research, matter management and policy drafting.

Use cases
12
Deployments
38
Organizations
32
Outcome disclosed
34%

12 Legal use cases

32 organizations in 5 countries run these use cases in public. 34% of those 38 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Capital marketsWealth and asset management

AI assistant for deal sourcing and M&A due diligence

An AI assistant that screens the market for acquisition or investment targets, builds company profiles, and speeds up due diligence by reading data room documents, extracting key terms and risks and drafting the investment or diligence memo, for the deal team to verify and decide.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
up to 80%
Datasite, vendor claim
Cross industryBanking

AI assistant for procurement and supplier contract review

An assistant for procurement and vendor management that reads supplier contracts and proposals, extracts the key terms, flags deviations from the organization's standard positions, drafts requests for proposal and evaluation matrices, and prepares negotiation positions, with a procurement or legal owner approving every conclusion.

Deployments
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingWealth and asset management

AI assistant for Shariah compliance screening and review

An AI assistant that screens Islamic financing contracts, deal structures and investments for Shariah compliance risks such as riba, gharar and exposure to prohibited activities, retrieves the relevant standards and fatwas, drafts the Shariah review documentation and flags issues for the Shariah board, which keeps sole authority over any ruling.

Deployments
1 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryBanking

AI copilot for marketing content with compliance pre review

A copilot that drafts campaign copy, product explainers and social posts on brand and in the customer's language from approved product facts, then runs a first pass compliance check against advertising rules and required disclosures, flagging unsupported claims and missing warnings before a human in marketing compliance approves publication.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
34%
Ally Financial, organization claim
Government and public sector

AI for court and case file summarization

AI that condenses court filings, case files, evidence recordings and earlier decisions into structured summaries, chronologies and draft case reports with references to the source pages, so that judges, prosecutors, tribunal staff and government lawyers find what matters faster, while the person responsible reads the underlying material and makes every legal judgment.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryProfessional services

AI for eDiscovery and disclosure document review

AI that sorts, prioritises and codes large collections of emails, chats and files for relevance, issues and legal privilege in litigation, investigations and regulatory requests, so that lawyers review the documents most likely to matter and can show the court how the rest were handled.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported cycle time reduction
85%
Purpose Legal, vendor claim
Government and public sector

AI for freedom of information request processing

AI that helps a public body handle freedom of information and open government requests: logging and clarifying requests, spotting duplicates, searching and deduplicating the records in scope, proposing redactions with the exemption that applies, and drafting the response letter, with an FOI officer deciding what is released.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryBanking

AI for policy drafting and policy gap analysis

An assistant that takes a new or changed obligation, finds every internal policy, standard and procedure it touches, flags clauses that now conflict or are silent, and drafts the updated wording in house style as a redline for the policy owner to approve.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingInsurance

AI for supervisory exam and information request responses

An assistant for the bank's regulatory affairs team that reads a supervisory information request or exam question, retrieves the relevant evidence, policies and prior correspondence, drafts a response for legal and compliance to approve, and tracks every commitment and remediation action through to closure.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Real estate

AI lease abstraction for commercial real estate

AI that reads a commercial lease, amendment or letter of intent and extracts the key terms, such as parties, dates, rent, escalations, options and renewal notices, into structured data, so a property owner, occupier or brokerage does not retype every clause by hand into its lease administration and portfolio systems.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Supervised agent
Professional servicesCross industry

AI legal research and drafting assistant for lawyers

A generative AI assistant for lawyers in firms, legal departments and public bodies that finds and summarises case law, legislation and internal know how, answers legal questions with citations and drafts first versions of memos, briefings, letters and filings, which a lawyer verifies and signs off.

Deployments
4 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
about 45%
Ashurst Perkins Coie, organization claim
Cross industryBanking

AI regulatory horizon scanning and obligation mapping

An AI system that continuously reads publications from the regulators and standard setters an organization answers to, classifies each item by relevance and urgency, breaks new rules into individual obligations and maps them to the internal policies and controls that meet them, so compliance owners see what changed and where the gaps are.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist

What the evidence says

Computed from the 38 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    5
  • Pilot
    4
  • Production
    20
  • Scaled
    7
  • Paused or rolled back
    2
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    26
  • Europe
    8
  • Global
    3
  • Latin America
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

A&O Shearman, Administration for Children and Families, Ally Financial, Ashurst Perkins Coie, Crown Prosecution Service, Cushman & Wakefield, Datasite, EQT, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Trade Commission, Financial Conduct Authority, Freshfields, Gemeente Amsterdam, General Services Administration, Health Resources and Services Administration, Internal Revenue Service, JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle), JPMorgan Chase, Klarna, Provincie Noord-Holland, Purpose Legal, Rogo, Serious Fraud Office, Supremo Tribunal Federal, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Walmart, Zoya.