AI-Enabled Lawyer Tools.
Two AI-powered tools co-designed in close collaboration with the lawyers from a finance practice group at a major AmLaw 100 law firm. Tool 1 automates the first drafts of complex financial documents. Tool 2 is an AI deal-management tool that meets lawyers where they already work, in their email inboxes.
A top AmLaw 100 law firm, in partnership with practice group, IT, and innovation leadership at the firm.
I designed and led the upstream work that enabled the build of both AI tools. The project began with a Radical Thinking Workshop that I created which convened lawyers from across the practice group to reimagine the future of legal work inside their practice group. The outcome of the workshop surfaced deal management and automated drafting as the two strategic focus areas.
Next I led the design team that conducted extensive research with partners, associates, paralegals, IT, and finance team members. The unique top-down and bottom-up view of that we were able to obtain led to 11 potential AI-enabled products to build.
With these design directions in mind, I assembled a multidisciplinary "super team" composed of IDEO-alumni designers, AI engineers, data scientists, and a handful of the most tech-savvy associates in the practice group. I handed the build off to a specialist team and the firm's internal IT once the 0-to-1 was complete.
The firm greenlit both products. They were built over a 9+ month engagement and are now in active use inside the firm.
