Scenario

Use Copilot to provide quicker legal guidance

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

1. Research regulation

Use Copilot to search for existing internal information such as emails, chat, and SharePoint documentation. Then augment with industry articles and any other relevant external information.

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Benefit: Quickly get up to speed with he most relevant information.

Use Copilot to create comprehensive analysis including the regulation’s provisions, implications, and compliance requirements and map to your organization’s existing policies.

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Benefit: Identify key trends and analyze impacts.

Use Copilot in Teams to schedule meeting with internal stakeholders to get inputs on how to address gaps and what updates are to be made in policies.

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Copilot in Teams

Benefit: Transcribe notes to incorporate into the required documentation updates.

Leverage a Copilot Studio agent to provide sample language for drafting legal advice and content based on data collected from internal and external sources on new regulations and legal systems of record. You can then finalize your guidelines and update policies and procedures.

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Copilot Studio Agent

Benefit: Rapidly finalize your guidelines and make required updates to policies and procedures.

With work previously done, use Copilot to help analyze case law, enforcement actions, and industry best practices.

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Benefit: Prepare risk assessment frameworks and risk-mitigating clauses for contracts.

Take advantage of Copilot in Word’s assistance in drafting external communications such as press releases, and FAQs for clients.

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Copilot in Word

Benefit: Generate a first draft quickly.

KPIs

Opportunity to impact key functional area KPIs

How Microsoft Copilot can help reduce average document review times

Microsoft Copilot can help with lowering review times which in turn leads to increased attorney productivity and higher client satisfaction rates.
Optimizing Legal Workflows​
  • Lower time spent on administrative tasks​
  • Find knowledge and take action​
  • Efficiently draft and format documents​
  • Swiftly scan and summarize documents​

How Microsoft Copilot can help reduce spending

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.​
Optimizing Legal Workflows​
  • Reduce time spent on administrative tasks​
  • Find knowledge and take action​
  • Efficiently draft and format documents​
  • Swiftly scan and summarize documents​

How Microsoft Copilot can help to drive efficiencies in regulatory work and compliance

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.
Assessing regulations
  • Summarizes new regulations
  • Provides gap analysis with organization policies
  • Researches relevant external information
  • Identifies possible risk mitigation strategies

How Microsoft Copilot can help streamline transactional processes

Copilot can increase efficiency, understanding, and consistency of contract reviews for increased velocity and better decision making.
Advancing review
  • Summarize complex documents
  • Extract key clauses and terms
  • Highlight sections needing closer examination
  • Generate faster first drafts of contracts

The content in this example scenario is for demonstration purposes only. You should evaluate how Copilot aligns with your organization’s business processes, regulatory requirements, and responsible AI principles.