Large forms suddenly slowed dramatically after recent Microsoft updates Here’s how to fix it. Several customers recently reported significantly slower form processing times following Microsoft updates to Word and Windows. The affected forms ranged from 12,000 words with 1,500 variables to 90,000 words with more than 2,400 variables. In some cases, processing times increased from…
The AI Gold Rush — and What It Means for Legal Documents We are in the middle of what can fairly be described as an AI gold rush. Across the legal technology industry, hundreds of vendors are racing to add artificial intelligence to their products. New platforms promise AI-generated contracts, AI drafting assistants, AI document…
Cut. Paste. Adjust. Hope. There is an old rhythm in legal drafting: Cut. Paste. Adjust. Hope. Every lawyer has done it. Take a prior agreement. Change the names. Modify a paragraph. Update a date. Move on. It feels efficient. Until it isn’t. A True Story A good friend went through a difficult season in life.…
Intelligent Systems Don’t Outsource Judgment There is a growing temptation in modern practice to confuse assistance with substitution. Technology now drafts, predicts, suggests, reformulates, summarizes. It is fast. It is impressive. It is increasingly persuasive. But none of it exercises judgment. Judgment is slower. It is contextual. It is accountable. And it belongs to the…
The Rediscovery of Rule-Based Automation in Legal Tech Why Rule-Based Logic Remains the Foundation of True Document Automation The legal-tech industry reaches inflection points in unexpected ways. One arrived recently when a well-known AI-forward document automation provider publicly acknowledged what many lawyers have practiced instinctively for years: rule-based automation is the foundation of accurate, reliable…