AI that frees lawyers from the work machines should do
LEGAL & LAW FIRMS

AI that frees lawyers from the work machines should do

Law firms, in-house legal teams, and legal-tech platforms use Deburise to automate contract review, accelerate research and drafting, deflect routine intake, and unlock the institutional knowledge buried in past matters.

Legal & Law Firms impact

What Legal & Law Firms clients see with Deburise

70%
Faster first-pass contract review
50%
Less time on first drafts
4x
Faster precedent search
30%
More billable capacity unlocked
Industry Challenges

WhereLegal & Law Firms teams hit the wall

Contract review bottleneck

First-pass review of NDAs, MSAs, and vendor contracts eats associate time that should go to substantive work.

Knowledge trapped in past matters

Precedents, clauses, and templates live across drives and DMS instances - every new matter starts from scratch.

Intake and conflict checks

Manual intake and conflict checks take days, delaying engagement letters and billing.

Drafting from blank page

First drafts of memos, motions, and contracts consume senior time that clients would rather not pay for.

Industry data

Where law-firm hours actually disappear

Industry research on how lawyers spend the week - and the slices where AI can take the work off their plate.

Lawyer time spent on non-billable work40%
Clio Legal Trends Report
Time per matter on knowledge search24%
McKinsey Knowledge Worker Productivity
First-pass review time on standard contracts90 min / contract
Aderant Legal Benchmark
Of legal teams piloting generative AI79%
Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals
Of clients expecting AI-discount pricing41%
BTI Consulting Premium Practices Study
How Deburise Helps

SolutionsWhat we build for Legal & Law Firms

AI Contract Review

Clause-level review against your playbook for NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, and commercial contracts - with redlines suggested in your house style.

Matter Intake & Conflict Checks

Conversational intake that captures matter details, runs conflict screens, generates engagement letters, and books the partner call.

Knowledge Search AI

Conversational search across past matters, templates, and precedent banks - surfacing the most relevant prior work in seconds.

Drafting Assistants

First-draft memos, motions, briefs, and contracts generated from your templates and past work - partner reviews and refines.

Legal Research AI

Research agents that combine internal precedent with curated external sources, returning citations and supporting passages.

Compliance & Discovery Automation

Document review pipelines for discovery, due diligence, and compliance audits - with privilege detection built in.

The shift

Traditional firm vs AI-augmented firm

Same lawyers, same matters - meaningfully higher realisation and faster client turnaround.

Before
Without Deburise
  • First-pass contract review60-120 minutes
  • Engagement letter turnaround1-3 business days
  • Precedent search per matter30-90 minutes
  • First-draft memo or brief2-6 hours
  • Captured billable hoursBaseline
  • Confidentiality postureMixed cloud tools
After
With Deburise
  • First-pass contract review10-20 minutes review-only
  • Engagement letter turnaroundSame day, often same hour
  • Precedent search per matterUnder 5 minutes
  • First-draft memo or brief30-90 minutes to refine
  • Captured billable hours+15-25% recovered
  • Confidentiality postureEnterprise-tier, no training
Use Cases

In actionHow Legal & Law Firms teams put this to work

01

NDA / MSA review

Counterparty NDA arrives; AI compares against your playbook, surfaces deviations, and proposes redlines - associate reviews in minutes.

02

Matter onboarding

Prospective client fills a chat intake; AI runs conflict screens, drafts the engagement letter, and books the partner call automatically.

03

Precedent search

Associate asks “how have we handled X clause for fintech clients?”; AI returns the three closest matters with the relevant clauses pulled out.

Where the value lands

Where AI lands the biggest wins for law firms

Composition of impact across our law-firm and in-house legal deployments.

  • Contract review & redlining
    32%
  • Precedent & knowledge search
    22%
  • First-draft generation
    20%
  • Intake & conflict automation
    14%
  • Discovery & DD automation
    12%
+25%
realisation
Operational benchmarks

Production benchmarks for legal AI

Targets we ship against on every law-firm and in-house legal engagement.

vs manual
−70%
Contract review time
First-pass review against your playbook in minutes.
vs prior
Precedent search speed
Conversational search across past matters and templates.
Private
0
Confidentiality incidents
Enterprise-tier models with no training on client data.
Built-in
100%
Privilege-tag coverage
Auto-detection of privileged content during review.
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