Where the work stalled
Documents arrived in mixed formats and lawyers reformatted them by hand. A typical 60-page contract could require another 40 to 45 minutes of repetitive clean-up after the legal drafting was finished.
What we built
- Encoded the firm's house style in a reusable skill.
- Enabled lawyers to upload a document and receive it in the agreed house style.
- Kept the document's clause wording unchanged.
- Reported broken cross-references and similar defects without changing them.
Where people stay responsible
A lawyer decides whether and how each drafting defect is fixed.
- A lawyer checks the formatted document and decides whether and how each drafting defect is fixed.
Limitations
- Heavily customised Word files can format unpredictably and need manual attention.
Measuring it
The reported manual starting point is 40 to 45 minutes for a typical 60-page contract. Record the skill's running time, checking time and any corrections before calculating the net time saved.
No outcome figures are published because a measured baseline and comparison period are not being claimed for this example.
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