01The Challenge
Kingsley Fenwick Solicitors' associates were spending a significant share of billable hours on first-pass review, reading commercial contracts end to end to flag unusual clauses, missing terms and deviations from the firm's standard positions before a partner ever saw the document. It was necessary work, but it was slow and it was the same pattern every time.
02Our Approach
We built an agent trained on the firm's own playbooks and precedent library that reads a contract on intake and produces a clause-by-clause flag list, citing the specific playbook position each flag relates to, ready for an associate to verify rather than discover from scratch. Nothing goes to a client without a solicitor's sign-off.
03Outcomes & Impact
It reads like a very fast, very consistent junior associate who has memorised every playbook we own. Our associates are verifying flags instead of hunting for them, and first-pass review that used to eat an afternoon is done before lunch.