Success Stories – Legal

Law Firm Reclaims Attorney Time and Accelerates Contract Turnaround

Who Are They?

A Connecticut-based law firm specializing in commercial real estate and corporate transactions was growing, but its operational infrastructure was not keeping pace. Associates and paralegals regularly worked extended hours — not because of case complexity, but volume. Thomson Reuters research indicates junior associates spend an estimated 60-80% of their time on routine research and document w, time that could be redirected to higher-value work.[4]

The Situation

Commercial real estate transactions generate large document volumes. Associates were spending 3-5 hours per deal organizing materials before substantive review could begin. LegalOn’s 2025 survey of 452 in-house legal professionals found the average contract review time without AI is 3.1 hours per contract.[5] For firms handling multiple simultaneous matters, that compounds quickly.

The Engagement

Three weeks of workflow analysis across the firm’s practice groups identified four priority areas:

Client intake required manual data entry into the matter management system from submitted questionnaires
Contract review required reading full documents to identify key dates, obligations, and non-standard clauses
Closing checklists were maintained in spreadsheets and updated manually as documents arrived
Billing narratives required significant drafting time, often resulting in under-recorded time entries

Kyber Insight automated matter intake and system entry. A contract analysis layer was built to surface key dates, obligations, and flagged clauses as a structured review aid — giving associates a running start without replacing attorney judgment. Closing checklists were automated with document receipt tracking. Billing narratives were drafted from time records for attorney review.

~240 hrs/yr

Potential hrs freed per legal
professional

Thomson Reuters, 2025 [4]

79%

Legal AI adopters reporting less time on routine tasks

LegalOn Survey, 2025 [5]

1-10 hrs/wk

Weekly savings reported by legal AI users

MyCase, 2025 [6]

3.1 hrs

Avg. time to review one contract
without AI

LegalOn Survey, 2025 [5]

Published research benchmarks. Results vary by organization and scope.

The concern going in was that AI would produce outputs our attorneys could not trust. What Kyber built gave our team better starting points, not finished work. The attorneys still make every judgment call. They just spend their time on the parts that actually require a lawyer.
Managing Partner, Corporate Transactions (representative scenario)

Key Outcome

The most meaningful change is not the time savings — it is what attorneys do with that time. When AI provides structured contract analysis and flags non-standard clauses before the attorney opens the document, judgment gets applied to the right questions immediately. Thomson Reuters projects approximately 240 hours freed per attorney per year represents an average annual value of $19,000 per professional.[4] For a firm with 10 attorneys, that is a potential six-figure capacity gain annually — operating with analytical rigor previously only achievable at much larger scale.

Sources

[4] Thomson Reuters Future of Professionals 2025 (n=2,275): ~240 hrs/yr freed per legal professional; avg. value ~$19,000/professional.
[5] LegalOn/In-House Connect 2025 (n=452): 79% of AI adopters report reduced routine task time; avg. 3.1 hrs/contract without AI.
[6] MyCase 2025 Legal Industry Report: 65% save 1-5 hrs/week with AI; 12% save 6-10 hrs/week.