Case study · Legal

Mid-size Law Firm · Legal · Litigation

An agentic AI system that researches case law — and shows its work.

Automating multi-step legal research with bounded agents that cite, summarise, and flag for review.

−68%average research time per matter

At a glance

Client
Mid-size Law Firm · Legal · Litigation
Headline metric
−68% average research time per matter
Deliverables
4 shipped to production
Stack
3+ tools across the build

The challenge, approach & outcome.

  1. Challenge

    A mid-size firm's associates were spending half their time on first-pass research — finding cases, summarising holdings, building memo skeletons. Generic legal LLM tools hallucinated citations. Trust was the blocker.

  2. Approach

    Designed a bounded agent with tool calls into approved legal databases. Every claim is traced to a real citation, every summary cites the holding paragraph, and the agent refuses to answer rather than invent. Senior associate review on every output before partner sign-off.

  3. Outcome

    Research time per matter down 68%, citation accuracy at 97%, and zero fabricated citations across four months of production traffic. Associates redirected to higher-value drafting and strategy.

average research time per matter
−68%
citation accuracy across reviewed outputs
97%
fabricated citations across 4 months in production
0

Deliverables

What we shipped.

  • Legal research agent
  • Citation verifier
  • Review queue
  • Audit logging

Stack

The tools we used.

  • Claude Sonnet
  • Westlaw / Lexis APIs
  • Postgres + pgvector

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