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How AI Is Transforming Contract Review

December 20, 2023

How AI Is Transforming Contract Review

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the process of contract review. Machine learning and syntactic processing no longer rely on manual, time-consuming methods. Instead, new AI tools are streamlining the process, offering quicker insights, and minimizing manual efforts in legal document review and interpretation, as reported in an article on legal platform Lega Mart.

Through automating such tasks as updating and revising contracts, AI is minimizing manual labor, expediting processes, and delivering substantial time and cost savings. Here are some of the benefits of using AI:

  • Integrating AI into Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) brings about efficient time and cost management. The CLM will evolve from a repository into a collaborative hub, automating tasks such as contract updating and revision. This not only minimizes manual labor but also expedites processes, ultimately enhancing overall business outcomes.
  • An AI-powered contract analysis system provides enhanced accuracy and consistency and ensures reliability. It adheres to established standards and expedites contract reviews, automating tasks and minimizing the potential for human errors and inconsistencies.
  • AI contract analysis software ensures optimized risk management, identifying and extracting clauses from each contract through bulk analysis. It permits a comparison with an AI-managed clause library and helps identify threats by highlighting inconsistencies and missing information.

The capabilities of AI contributing to this transformation include predictive coding, clustering algorithms, concept search, topic modeling, machine learning, and natural language processing. These tools collectively streamline contract analysis, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and enhanced risk management.

Using AI to analyze contracts is revolutionizing the way businesses understand and navigate their agreements. However, it’s essential to strike a balance between leveraging AI tools and preserving human expertise. The synergy between AI and human judgment emerges as the key to upholding ethical standards and nuances in contract management.

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