Transforming legal knowledge management with an AI-powered knowledge assistant - cutting research time by 90% and boosting attorney productivity 5x.

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Overview

One of the UK’s largest law firms, with over 3,000 plus attorneys and a decades-deep repository of legal knowledge, case files, regulatory guidance, and legal precedents, wanted to modernize how its teams accessed and applied knowledge. Attorneys were spending excessive time on manual searches switching between multiple systems reducing client-facing productivity.

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Challenge

• Attorneys spent 30% of billable hours searching across fragmented document repositories.
• Paper-heavy workflows slowed compliance and added operational overhead.
• Lack of contextual search limited attorneys’ ability to provide fast, data-driven legal guidance.

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Solution

LatentBridge deployed a Real-Time AI Voice Agent powered by Azure AI Foundry & Voice Live API and seamlessly integrated into the firm’s existing knowledge systems.

The LatentBridge’s AI Labs partnered closely with legal teams to design the agent tuned for legal accuracy, compliance, and real-world adoption.

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Metrics

• 90% reduction in manual research effort
• 5x increase in attorney productivity

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Feature Set

• Real-Time Voice Search: Centralised access to firm’s legal knowledge – on the go.
• Semantic Understanding: Goes beyond keywords to interpret large corpus, legal context and intent
• Intelligent Summaries: Distils complex legal topics into insights
• Legal Knowledge Integration: Connects to SharePoint and DMS
• Multi-Language Support: Enables cross-border practice efficiency
• Enterprise Grade Security: Granular permissions and access control with enhanced guardrails

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Final Takeaway

By combining cutting-edge AI with deep domain collaboration, LatentBridge enabled one of the magic circle law firms to transform legal knowledge management into a competitive advantage - empowering attorneys to focus less on knowledge search and more on actual client work.