Microsoft Scenario Library Legal Automated contract review agent

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Legal scenario: Automated contract review agent

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Scenario

Using AI Agents for contract review

Detect risks, deviations, and compliance issues and recommend changes for faster legal review.

1. Contract ingestion

Ingests the uploaded contract.

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AI Agent

Quickly pulls in contracts from any format to kick off automated analysis.

2. Contract comparison

Compares uploaded contract against standard templates.

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AI Agent

Checks the contract against standard templates to flag deviations.

3. Risk identification

Identifies deviations and risky clauses.

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Identifies red flags and risky clauses based on predefined legal rules.

4. Clause suggestions

Suggests alternative clauses based on policy/risk standards and recommends negotiation edits or redlines.

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Recommends better clauses or edits to reduce risk and align with policy.

5. Summary for review

Summarizes findings for legal review.

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Delivers a clear summary so legal teams can focus only on what matters.

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​

Enhancing communications​

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​

Enhancing communications​

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

Implementing compliance

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

Facilitating decisions

1Access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at m365copilot.com, or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat mobile app and set toggle to “Web”.

2Access Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat at m365copilot.com, the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat mobile app, or the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat app in Teams, and set toggle to “Work”.

3AI Agents allow Copilot to access your organization-specific apps. In the past this would have required an API call to get data from a system of record.

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.