From AI-Assisted Lawyers to AI-Powered Legal Teams: Unlocking Full Value

Session Highlights

^05:04 Nicole explains why turnaround expectations from Sales, HR, and Finance have increased 10x and what this means for Legal teams.

^08:12 Irfan shares how his team maintains a 99% internal SLA with a legal team of just three.

^18:20 Nicole walks through a real-world use case: using AI to monitor contractual insurance limits.

^21:22 Irfan discusses an AI-generated redline that came back “bleeding red” and why human review still matters.

^24:00 Nicole reframes how Legal can prove its value through KPIs, SLAs, ROI, and the familiar alphabet soup.

^30:21 Irfan predicts entirely new roles emerging inside legal teams because of AI.

^35:01 Akshay discusses rising token costs and how executives evaluate AI-related line items.

^37:30 Marshall kicks off the demo with Sidebar, showcasing agentic search across the contract repository.

^41:25 See how AI playbooks can be generated from a gold-standard template directly within the Word plugin.

^42:48 Guideline-based approvals automatically route real clause deviations and clear once the redline is resolved.

^45:45 Agentic email intake classifies a request, gathers the relevant context, and creates a linked ticket.

"Anything that ultimately will... go to a human being, I want a human to look at it... We've received redline contracts before that have just been AI, and it's just bleeding red." — Irfan Siddiqui, Assistant General Counsel, BeatStars

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