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

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

Webinar Recap & Key Takeaways

AI is already helping lawyers draft faster, review contracts, and handle more work. But the bigger shift comes when AI starts changing how the legal team operates.

In this conversation, Akshay Verma, COO at SpotDraft, is joined by Nicole Ducharme, Director, Legal Operations and Contracts at Astronomer, and Irfan Siddiqui, Associate General Counsel at BeatStars, to explore where AI is creating real leverage today, what work should stay with lawyers, and how AI could change the way legal teams are structured and run.

The session then moves from ideas to application with a live innovation showcase led by Marshall Deutz, Solution Engineer at SpotDraft. Marshall dives into how AI is accelerating contracting, how SpotDraft brings contracts and legal context into the AI tools teams already use, and how an MCP client connects SpotDraft's AI agents to tools and workflows across the business.

Session Highlights

05:04 Nicole on why turnaround expectations from sales, HR and finance have 10x'd.

08:12 Irfan on holding a 99% internal SLA with a legal team of three.

18:20 Nicole maps a real use case: monitoring contractual insurance limits with AI.

21:22 Irfan on the AI redline that came back bleeding red, and human review.

24:00 Nicole reframes proving legal's value: KPIs, SLAs, ROI, the familiar alphabet soup.

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

35:01 Akshay on rising token costs and how executives read AI line items.

37:30 Marshall opens the demo with Sidebar, agentic search across your contract repository.

41:25 Generating AI playbooks from a gold standard template, straight inside the Word plugin.

42:48 Guideline-based approvals route on real clause deviations and clear themselves after a redline.

45:45 Agentic email intake classifies a request, gathers context, and opens 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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