Lawyers and in-house counsel handling contract review, due diligence, or opinion drafting work through batches of contracts, precedents, and internal documents, needing to locate key clauses, compare precedents, and produce a reviewable first draft.
Junior lawyers or legal assistants read and summarize each document by hand, aided by keyword search and template libraries; some teams use general-purpose LLMs for preliminary Q&A, but without legal corpora or traceable citations.
Such materials are voluminous and term-dense; reading them one by one is slow and prone to missed clause differences, and the hourly billing model makes clients cost-sensitive about basic review.