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A law firm with 70% less manual work
SyG Abogados (Barcelona) · Civil law · 2025-2026. An AI processes the firm workload overnight and in the morning the drafts of civil claims are ready. The lawyer only reviews and validates.
A law firm does not have a writing problem: it has a volume problem. The document to prepare looks a lot like twenty others, but not enough to copy one, so somebody starts again every time. That is where the day goes.
How it works
The heavy work runs at night, in batches, when the machine bothers nobody and compute is cheap. In the morning the drafts are done and the lawyer goes straight to the part only a person can do: checking, applying judgement and deciding.
- Human in the loop by design. No document ships without human validation. It is not a settings checkbox someone can switch off on a Tuesday: it is how the circuit is built.
- Private, internal firm data, under strict confidentiality. A client file is nobody training material.
- With legal judgement of my own. I hold a law degree from the University of Barcelona, so the conversations about what can and cannot be automated were technical on both sides.
Why 70% is an honest number
It is not that the AI does 70% of a lawyer work. It is that 70% of the time that used to go into preparing the draft no longer goes there. What remains, which is judgement, stays entirely theirs, and that part is not automated nor should it be.
Confusing those two things is what makes many legal AI projects overpromise and collapse three months in.
If your team repeats a document with variations, tell me about it. And if you want to see first how something like this is built over your own documentation, it is in an assistant over your company documents.