Business function

AI use cases for legal

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

Use cases
17
Deployments
83
Organizations
72
Outcome disclosed
42%

17 Legal use cases

72 organizations in 13 countries run these use cases in public. 42% of those 83 deployments disclose a measurable outcome.

Capital marketsWealth and asset management

AI assistant for deal sourcing and M&A due diligence

AI deal sourcing and due diligence is an AI assistant that screens the market for acquisition or investment targets and speeds up due diligence for a deal team. It builds company profiles, reads data room documents, extracts key terms and risks, and drafts the investment or diligence memo, for the team to verify and decide.

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

AI assistant for procurement and supplier contract review

Procurement and contract review is an assistant that reads supplier contracts and proposals, for procurement and vendor management teams. It 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
9 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingWealth and asset management

AI assistant for Shariah compliance screening and review

AI Shariah compliance screening is an AI assistant that checks Islamic financing contracts, deal structures and investments for Shariah compliance risks such as riba and gharar, for compliance teams. It also flags exposure to prohibited activities, retrieves the relevant standards and fatwas, and drafts the Shariah review documentation. The Shariah board keeps sole authority over any ruling.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Cross industryBanking

AI copilot for marketing content with compliance pre review

AI marketing content and compliance copilot drafts campaign copy and checks it against advertising rules before a human approves it for publication. It writes 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
5 public, best grade B
Reported productivity gain
34%
Ally Financial, organization claim
Government and public sector

AI for court and case file summarization

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

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

AI for eDiscovery and disclosure document review

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

Deployments
5 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 for freedom of information request processing is AI that helps a public body handle freedom of information and open government requests. It logs and clarifies requests, spots duplicates, searches and deduplicates the records in scope, proposes redactions with the applicable exemption, and drafts the response letter, with an FOI officer deciding what is released.

Deployments
6 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Government and public sector

AI for legislative drafting and parliamentary question support

AI for legislative drafting and parliamentary question support helps legislative counsel and policy officials search, summarise and draft the material behind new laws and government answers to parliamentarians. It also works for ministers' private offices, from finding relevant debates and prior questions to producing a first draft of an explanatory note or briefing, with the legal drafter or policy official responsible for the final text.

Deployments
3 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
Insurance

AI for litigation and recovery triage

AI for litigation and recovery triage scores open insurance claims and overdue accounts for the risk that they end up in litigation or formal legal recovery. It also ranks the attorneys, law firms or recovery agencies likely to get the best result, so a claims handler, legal panel manager or collections specialist can act early instead of after the case has already escalated.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Cross industryBanking

AI for policy drafting and policy gap analysis

AI policy drafting and gap analysis is an assistant that reads a new or changed obligation and checks which internal policies it affects, for compliance and legal teams. It finds every policy, standard and procedure the obligation 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
7 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Copilot
BankingInsurance

AI for supervisory exam and information request responses

Supervisory exam response assembly is an AI assistant for a bank's regulatory affairs team that reads a supervisory information request or exam question and drafts a response. It retrieves the relevant evidence, policies and prior correspondence, so legal and compliance can approve the draft, 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 lease abstraction reads a commercial lease, amendment or letter of intent and pulls out the key terms into structured data for property owners, occupiers and brokerages. The terms include parties, dates, rent, escalations, options and renewal notices, so nobody has to retype every clause by hand into the lease administration and portfolio systems.

Deployments
10 public, best grade C
Reported productivity gain
90%
Claroty, vendor claim
Professional servicesCross industry

AI legal research and drafting assistant for lawyers

A legal research and drafting assistant is a generative AI tool that finds and summarises case law and legislation for lawyers, answering legal questions with citations. It works for lawyers in firms, legal departments and public bodies, also searching internal know how and drafting first versions of memos, briefings, letters and filings, which the lawyer verifies and signs off.

Deployments
9 public, best grade B
Median employee adoption, vendor reported
80%
3 deployments
Cross industryBanking

AI regulatory horizon scanning and obligation mapping

Regulatory horizon scanning is AI that continuously reads publications from the regulators and standard setters an organization answers to and classifies each item by relevance and urgency. It 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
5 public, best grade B
Autonomy
Assist
Wealth and asset management

AI review and extraction of existing estate and trust documents

Estate and trust document drafting is an AI assisted workflow for wealth advisors that extracts and summarizes what a client's existing will, trust and power of attorney documents say. It flags where documents disagree or contain an error, for an advisor to review. Some platforms in this category also fill an attorney reviewed, jurisdiction specific template with the client's facts to produce a new draft estate document; whether that filling step itself runs on a model, or is document assembly outside the AI feature, is a vendor by vendor question the evidence on this page does not settle.

Deployments
2 public, best grade C
Autonomy
Copilot
Government and public sector

AI self help assistant for self represented litigants and legal aid clients

A legal aid self help assistant is a conversational AI that answers general questions about the law and the court process in plain language for people without a lawyer. A legal aid organisation or court runs it for people facing a legal problem such as an eviction, a custody dispute or a debt claim; it points to the right form or self help resource and refers anything needing a lawyer's judgment or a specific case answer to a human, without ever telling the person what to do in their own case.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Reported customer satisfaction
at least 80%
People's Law School, organization claim
Government and public sector

AI triage for case admissibility and selection at supreme and constitutional courts

Case admissibility and selection triage is AI that reads an incoming appeal or petition at a supreme or constitutional court and classifies it by legal theme. It suggests whether the case belongs with others already grouped for combined resolution or should go to full review, so staff and justices spend time on the judgment, not sorting the docket by hand; a person confirms every classification before it affects a case.

Deployments
2 public, best grade B
Reported accuracy
85%
Supremo Tribunal Federal, organization claim

What the evidence says

Computed from the 83 public deployments behind these use cases. Numbers update with every checked record.

Benchmarks with at least 3 pooled values

Benchmarks across Legal use cases
KPIMedianReported rangeData pointsClaimed by
Productivity gain39.5%
25% to 90%
Not pooled: up to 80%
4plus 1 up to3 organization, 1 vendor
Employee adoption80% vendor reported
80% to 95%
33 vendor
Deployments by stage
  • Announced
    15
  • Pilot
    10
  • Production
    43
  • Scaled
    13
  • Paused or rolled back
    2
Public deployments by region
  • North America
    57
  • Europe
    14
  • Global
    4
  • Latin America
    4
  • Asia Pacific
    3
  • Middle East
    1

Organizations with a public deployment

  • A&O Shearman
  • Administration for Children and Families
  • Ally Financial
  • American Dream
  • Ashurst Perkins Coie
  • BOK Financial
  • Bradken
  • Bridgewater Associates
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
  • Bureau of Consular Affairs
  • Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • Claroty
  • Continental Realty Corporation
  • Corte Constitucional de Colombia
  • Crown Prosecution Service
  • Cushman & Wakefield
  • Datasite
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (Incubator for Artificial Intelligence)
  • Derwent London
  • EQT
  • European Parliament
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency
  • Federal Trade Commission
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Fingerpaint
  • Forvis Mazars in Germany
  • Freshfields
  • Gemeente Amsterdam
  • General Authority of Endowments, Qatar
  • General Services Administration
  • HSBC
  • Health Resources and Services Administration
  • Ice Miller
  • Internal Revenue Service
  • JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle)
  • JPMorgan Chase
  • Klarna
  • Legal Aid of North Carolina
  • Macfarlanes
  • Microsoft
  • Ministerio Público Fiscal de la Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
  • National Transportation Safety Board
  • O'Melveny & Myers
  • Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
  • Orrick
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Parliamentary Counsel Office (New Zealand)
  • Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
  • People's Law School
  • Provincie Noord-Holland
  • Purpose Legal
  • QBE Insurance Group
  • Reed Smith
  • Rogo
  • Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Sedai Wealth
  • Sedgwick
  • Serious Fraud Office
  • Spear Street Capital
  • Supremo Tribunal Federal
  • Taboola
  • Technology Common Services Center
  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security
  • U.S. Department of Justice
  • U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
  • U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Urban Renaissance Group
  • Walmart
  • Zoya