Case Studies | LawFirm AI - Proven Results Across Practice Areas

The numbers behind the transformation

Twelve months of live production data from firms that made the switch. No projections, no simulations -- actual outcomes from real caseloads.

47 Firms analyzed

2.1M Documents processed

62% Avg. time reclaimed

$4.3M Recovered billables

Kirkland Morrow cut discovery review time by 71% without adding headcount

When a bet-the-company antitrust matter arrived with 840,000 documents and a 90-day discovery window, managing partner Dana Pellegrino faced a choice: staff up with eight contract reviewers at $95/hour each, or trust an AI-native workflow the firm had piloted for only six weeks.

She chose the workflow. LawFirm AI's privilege classification engine processed the full document set in 11 days, flagging 218,000 as clearly non-responsive, 94,000 as potentially privileged, and surfacing 42 hot documents that eventually became the cornerstone of the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment.

71% faster review $340K in contract reviewer savings Zero privilege waiver incidents Case resolved in 7 months

"We used to budget six to eight weeks and $200K+ for a document set this size. LawFirm AI turned that into eleven days and a number I didn't need to explain to the client."

Dana Pellegrino, Managing Partner, Kirkland Morrow LLP

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M&A

Strand Whitmore Advisors · Boston, MA

Closing a $280M acquisition four weeks ahead of schedule

Due diligence on a mid-market manufacturing acquisition involved 14 data rooms and nine counterparty counsel firms. LawFirm AI's contract abstraction layer surfaced 23 anomalous reps-and-warranties clauses that human reviewers had cleared in an earlier pass.

28d faster close

23 risk flags found

$1.2M fee savings

Employment

Navarro Ellison · Austin, TX

Handling 300% more EEOC matters with a flat associate headcount

When three companies in the same industry group became clients simultaneously, the four-partner employment boutique faced an intake crisis. LawFirm AI automated initial document classification, deposition summary drafts, and demand letter first passes.

3x caseload capacity

68% faster intake

0 new hires needed

Estate Planning

Hartwell & Osei Partners · Atlanta, GA

Cutting trust document drafting from four days to four hours

A 12-attorney estate planning firm with 340 active clients found associates spending 60% of their time on instrument drafting -- revocable trusts, pour-over wills, durable powers. LawFirm AI's assembly engine reduced that to light review and signing coordination.

94% drafting time saved

2.1x client capacity

$218K annual margin gain

Patent attorneys reviewing technology diagrams

IP / Patent

Chen Vogt IP · San Jose, CA

Doubling patent prosecution throughput without diluting quality

Patent prosecution requires consistent claim language, exhaustive prior art cross-references, and meticulous response drafting. LawFirm AI's IP module produced office action response drafts with citation accuracy that matched the firm's senior agents on blind review.

2x applications handled

99.1% citation accuracy

31% higher allowance rate

Insurance Defense

Brecker Laine Defense Group · Phoenix, AZ

Recovering $1.7M in write-off billing through AI time reconstruction

Insurance defense firms live and die by billing precision. LawFirm AI's time reconstruction engine analyzed email threads, document edits, and docket activity to surface 14,200 unbilled hours across 18 months that associates had either forgotten to log or written off as non-billable out of habit.

$1.7M recovered revenue

14.2K unbilled hours found

18mo lookback period

Real Estate

Delacourt Property Law · Denver, CO

Processing 400 commercial leases in the time it used to take for 60

A fast-growing commercial real estate practice was turning away clients because lease abstracting was creating a review bottleneck. LawFirm AI processed 400 leases in a single quarter, extracting rent escalation clauses, renewal options, and SNDA requirements into structured spreadsheets ready for attorney sign-off.

6.7x throughput increase

88% cost reduction

400 leases one quarter

Kirkland Morrow: Eleven days, 840,000 documents, zero privilege waiver

The matter arrived on a Tuesday in October. An antitrust complaint had just been served on a mid-cap industrial supplier, and the discovery schedule the court set was aggressive: 90 days to produce responsive documents from a six-year custodial collection spanning 28 individual email archives and four shared drives.

Managing partner Dana Pellegrino's first call was to her litigation support vendor. The quote came back at $620,000 for contract review staffing, hosting, and production. Her second call was to LawFirm AI's customer success team.

The LawFirm AI deployment was not new -- the firm had been using the platform for smaller matters since April -- but this was the first true stress test. The platform ingested all 840,000 documents over 36 hours via secure FTP. Privilege classification began automatically, running against the firm's custom privilege log rules and the 14 attorney-client relationships the system had learned from prior matters.

By day four, the platform had classified 218,000 documents as clearly non-responsive and routed them out of the review queue entirely. The remaining 622,000 were tiered by responsiveness confidence score, allowing Pellegrino's six senior associates to concentrate their review time on the 94,000 documents where confidence fell below the threshold -- the genuinely ambiguous middle band where attorney judgment actually matters.

The 42 hot documents -- internal emails discussing pricing strategy in terms that tracked the complaint's core allegations -- were surfaced by day nine. Two of them had been buried inside lengthy email threads that would have taken a contract reviewer an estimated three hours each to process manually. The AI flagged them in seconds.

Total time from ingestion to production-ready set: 11 days. Total cost: $38,400, inclusive of platform fees and associate review time. The privilege log was auto-populated with 94% of the required fields complete, requiring only attorney attestation and date verification. There were no privilege waiver incidents during the litigation, which settled seven months after the complaint was filed.

The numbers behind the transformation

Kirkland Morrow cut discovery review time by 71% without adding headcount

Results across every practice area

Closing a $280M acquisition four weeks ahead of schedule

Handling 300% more EEOC matters with a flat associate headcount

Cutting trust document drafting from four days to four hours

Doubling patent prosecution throughput without diluting quality

Recovering $1.7M in write-off billing through AI time reconstruction

Processing 400 commercial leases in the time it used to take for 60

Aggregate outcomes across the client base

Kirkland Morrow: Eleven days, 840,000 documents, zero privilege waiver

Matter at a glance

How the deployment unfolded

Matter intake and ingestion

Automated classification at scale

Associate review of ambiguous tier

Hot documents surfaced

Production set ready, privilege log complete

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