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AI does not take over a lawyer's job. It can speed up repetitive work, though: reviewing contracts, summarising documents, producing first drafts. This article shows which tools exist for that, what they do and where it goes wrong. Status: November 2026.
Drafting and reviewing contracts
Juro is a contract platform where you draft, sign and manage contracts. According to the vendor, it includes AI to review and edit contracts according to rules your lawyer sets. It is aimed at legal teams and at the departments that need contracts, such as sales and HR.
Contract management tools often change hands. In 2024, Workday acquired Evisort, an AI contract platform, to offer contract analysis in its own HR and finance software. Read the report. So ask a vendor what will happen to its product and how you can take your data with you if you stop.
Legal research
CoCounsel is an AI assistant for lawyers, used for things like document review, research memos and contract analysis. It was developed by Casetext, which Thomson Reuters acquired in August 2023.
Lex Machina ⇲ from LexisNexis analyses the outcomes of court cases, for example how judges and parties behaved in earlier cases. The data covers US courts. For Dutch law you need other sources.
Much of this offering comes from the United States. Check whether a tool covers Dutch or European legislation and case law before you rely on it.
Vendors disappear too. ROSS Intelligence, an AI platform for legal research, announced in December 2020 that it would close after a copyright lawsuit from Thomson Reuters. It said it could no longer raise new funding. Read the report.
Client questions and simple legal help
With LawDroid lawyers build chatbots without programming. The vendor also has an AI assistant for research, summarising and writing letters, LawDroid Copilot, which left beta in February 2024.
Be wary of tools that promise to replace a lawyer. In 2025, the US regulator FTC barred DoNotPay from advertising that its service performs like a real lawyer without enough evidence. The company had to pay 193,000 dollars. Read the FTC announcement.
The biggest risk: invented rulings
An AI model can invent rulings that look real. In 2023, lawyers in the US case Mata v. Avianca filed documents citing rulings that ChatGPT had made up. The judge imposed a fine of 5,000 dollars. Read the CNBC report.
So check every source yourself in an official database.
How to get started as a business owner
- Pick one task, such as summarising long contracts, and test it with an example that contains no confidential data.
- Do not enter confidential customer or contract data without agreements with the vendor on how it is processed. Under the GDPR, that includes a data processing agreement.
- Let a lawyer decide and sign. AI provides a draft.
- Choose vendors that will stay around and make sure you can export your data.
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Sources
- Juro: contract platform with AI
- TechCrunch: Workday acquires Evisort
- Thomson Reuters: Casetext acquisition completed
- LexisNexis: Lex Machina
- ABA Journal: ROSS Intelligence to shut down
- LawDroid: Copilot launches out of beta
- FTC: final order with DoNotPay
- CNBC: ChatGPT cited bogus cases in a US court filing