AI / AI discovery for a law firm
Define the right job for AI before choosing a platform.
A comparison of AI approaches for document search, summaries, and internal legal workflows.
Legal-team tasks
Information & review needs
Compare AI approaches
Options for a platform decision
Begin with the documents and the people.
The discovery considered where AI could help a legal team work with case information. Document search, summaries, and email assistance were considered as separate tasks, each with different information and review needs.
Compare the tradeoffs.
The options included a custom private solution, an existing enterprise platform, and specialist legal AI products. The evaluation considered integrations, document processing, data handling, cost, and ongoing maintenance. Choosing software meant understanding what the team would need to operate it.
Keep professional judgment in the process.
The deliverable framed possible support workflows and the questions to resolve before implementation. It did not assume that an AI answer could replace legal review or that choosing a provider settled every privacy and security requirement.
The process
How the work came together.
Define the legal support tasks
Separate document search, summaries, and email support into concrete use cases.
Compare operating models
Assess custom, enterprise, and specialist products with their integration and maintenance needs.
Record the open questions
Make data handling, document processing, cost, and human review part of the decision.
Skills & applications
What the work called for.
- Document search & summarization
- Potential support workflows evaluated during discovery.
- Enterprise & specialist AI options
- Compared as approaches rather than presented as deployed products.
- Platform decision brief
- Documents the tradeoffs and questions to resolve before implementation.
The deliverables
What took shape.
Discovery & platform evaluation
- AI use-case definition
- Platform & integration comparison
- Implementation questions & options
The outcome
The result.
A documented comparison of AI approaches, with the workflow, integration, and operating questions needed to support a platform decision.
