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The 56% Problem: Why Manual Document Tasks Are Holding Lawyers Back and What AI Can Do About It
In an industry where time equals revenue, the fact that lawyers spend 56% of their time on manual document tasks should be a red flag — especially when much of that work is low-value, repetitive, and rarely recoverable. Yet for many legal professionals, this has become a normalized part of practice — hunting for clauses, updating definitions, formatting contracts, and triple-checking terms before filing or sending to clients. It’s not just inefficient. It’s unnecessary and costly.
Despite years of legal tech innovation, most tools have barely scratched the surface of true productivity gains. They’ve digitized workflows but often complicated them at the same time. The result? Technology that often feels like more work to manage than it's worth.
But something is shifting. A new generation of legal tech, including rapidly advancing AI and AI assistants, is introducing capabilities that don’t just automate individual steps. These tools act as proactive collaborators, intelligently navigating complex documents, surfacing key risks, applying context, and taking action. They’re helping legal teams move from manual to marvelous — and that transformation is happening faster than many realize.
The DOJ's Corporate Enforcement Policy: One Year Later
The DOJ's Criminal Division issued three declinations since the issuance of the revised CEP a year ago. Review of these cases gives insight into DOJ's implementation of the new policy in practice.
The DOJ's New Parameters for Evaluating Corporate Compliance Programs
The parameters set forth in the DOJ's memorandum have implications not only for the government's evaluation of compliance programs in the context of criminal charging decisions, but also for how defense counsel structure their conference-room advocacy seeking declinations or lesser sanctions in both criminal and civil investigations.
Use of Deferred Prosecution Agreements In White Collar Investigations
This article discusses the practical and policy reasons for the use of DPAs and NPAs in white-collar criminal investigations, and considers the NDAA's new reporting provision and its relationship with other efforts to enhance transparency in DOJ decision-making.
Bankruptcy Sales: Finding a Diamond In the Rough
There is no efficient market for the sale of bankruptcy assets. Inefficient markets yield a transactional drag, potentially dampening the ability of debtors and trustees to maximize value for creditors. This article identifies ways in which investors may more easily discover bankruptcy asset sales.
A Lawyer's System for Active Reading
Active reading comprises many daily tasks lawyers engage in, including highlighting, annotating, note taking, comparing and searching texts. It demands more than flipping or turning pages.