The problem
Associates were spending large blocks of billable capacity on research and first-draft assembly that drew heavily on work the firm had already done: precedents, briefs, and memos scattered across matter files. Public AI tools were a non-starter: privileged material can't leave the firm's control.
What we built
A research and drafting workflow grounded in the firm's own work product, deployed inside an architecture the firm controls, with citations back to source documents so attorneys verify rather than trust. Governance came first: which matters were in scope, who could query what, and what review applied before anything reached a client file.
The result
Research time dropped by roughly 60%. As important: zero privileged material in public tools, and an audit trail for every answer. The firm's name stays out of this write-up for the same reason the architecture exists: their confidentiality obligations are the point.