What companies should decide before introducing AI agents into legal work

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Overview

AI agents can support legal work, but they should not be introduced without designing the workflow. Companies need to decide what the agent may do, what it may not do, who reviews the output, and how the process is recorded.

Practical perspective

The practical starting point is to separate tasks that can be assisted by AI from tasks that require professional judgment. Contract review, document comparison, issue extraction and knowledge retrieval can be accelerated, but final legal responsibility should remain clear.

In practice, legal advice is useful only when it reflects the business model, internal rules, counterparty relationship, risk tolerance and timing of the decision. Generative AI can support initial organization, comparison and drafting, but attorneys should remain responsible for final legal judgment.