Using Copilot in Legal

Legal departments are navigating an increasingly dynamic and complex legal, regulatory, and compliance landscape. The workload is growing not just in volume, but in speed and complexity. By harnessing the power of Microsoft Copilot, legal departments can transform how they work to meet these demands and enhance the efficiency, quality, and scale of their work to deliver broad impact.

Learn how DLA Piper is using Copilot for legal processes here.

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Microsoft Copilot opportunity to impact key functional area KPIs

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Cost per internal review

Microsoft Copilot can help with lowering review times which in turn leads to increased attorney productivity and higher client satisfaction rates.

Outside counsel spend

Legal teams can use Copilot to automate routine tasks to improve productivity, expedite processes, and increase client satisfaction. By improving these metrics, legal teams can bring work in-house and become less reliant on outside legal counsel assistance.​

Efficient regulatory compliance processes

Copilot can significantly enhance efficiencies and scalability in complex regulatory work. By summarizing regulations, streamlining analysis, and providing actionable insights, it empowers legal teams to stay ahead of the curve.

Streamline transactional processes

Copilot can increase efficiency, understanding, and consistency of contract reviews for increased velocity and better decision making.

Enhance legal advisory services

Legal teams can use Copilot to automate routine tasks to improve productivity, expedite processes, and increase client satisfaction.

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Transform Legal processes

Key processes Before AI Using AI
Advisory servicesNavigating legal precedents, relevant case laws, and past litigations can be time-consuming and lead to slower response times and less strategic foresight in legal counsel. Quicker legal guidanceDevelop a compliance video (Microsoft Copilot only)

Recap consultations, extract relevant case law, and draft preliminary legal advice.

ContractsManaging contracts is akin to navigating a paper jungle, where critical details can be buried under stacks, making the process slow, error-prone, and inefficient.Quicker contract review (Microsoft 365 Copilot)Licensing agreement negotiation

Review contracts and compare clauses to standard terms.

Quicker contract review (Copilot Studio)

Capture and analyze terms proposed during negotiations and then create a draft agreement.

LitigationLitigation without data-driven and AI-enhanced tools can lead to prolonged case durations and increased costs where document discovery is inefficient and incomplete.Legal strategy development​

Quickly aggregate publicly available case information, analyze relevant cases to identify past strategies, and formulate a new strategy for legal argumentation.

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