The Hidden Cost of AI Hesitation
A senior associate in a mid-sized legal firm spends six hours on a Friday afternoon reviewing a set of discovery documents. The task is precise: identify every instance where a specific liability clause was modified across forty different versions of a contract. It is tedious, manual work that consumes a significant portion of the billable day. The associate knows that a large language model could perform this extraction in seconds. However, the firm’s policy is absolute: no client data is to