How Legal Teams Are Actually Using AI
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AI in legal has moved past curiosity and skepticism, but it hasn’t reached full automation either.
In this 20 minute fireside chat from Beacon Experience London, Olly Dean, Head of Legal, Risk & Compliance at BeZero Carbon, joins Viraj Nedungadi (SpotDraft) to unpack how AI is actually being used inside a fast-scaling legal function today.
Rather than lofty promises or theoretical use cases, this session focuses on practical adoption: where AI delivers meaningful leverage, where human judgment still matters, and how legal teams can introduce AI responsibly without slowing the business down. If you’re navigating AI adoption as a GC, Head of Legal, or Legal Ops leader—this session offers a refreshingly honest perspective from the front lines.
In this session, we summarize:
00:53 How legal teams moved from AI hype and skepticism to real, operational use inside daily workflows.
02:10 Why AI is most effective today when used selectively, not embedded into every legal workflow.
03:29 Starting with curiosity, not strategy: how early experimentation reveals where AI actually adds value.
05:15 Scaling a solo legal function post–Series C without increasing headcount using smarter processes.
06:28 Reframing contracts as a business-owned workflow, with legal enabling rather than bottlenecking execution.
08:09 Using AI to unlock micro-efficiencies (like metadata extraction) before tackling bigger legal problems.
09:54 Putting practical AI guardrails in place through playbooks, not heavy-handed governance or training.
12:15 Why AI literacy is becoming a legal responsibility, not just a technical one, especially under emerging regulation.
15:24 How AI-assisted clause drafting and redlining create time savings that compound across contracts.
16:56 The real future of legal AI: assisted productivity with human oversight, not full automation.
18:28 Final takeaway: trust your legal judgment first, then use AI to execute faster and better, not to replace decision-making.
“Saving two or three minutes on a clause doesn’t sound like much, but across dozens of contracts, those micro-efficiencies add up very quickly.”
- Oliver Dean, Head of Legal, Risk & Compliance, BeZero Carbon
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