Checkbox, a legal front door for corporates, has launched First Pass, marking a move into contract review – and which builds upon its platform for inhouse teams. (See AL interview with Evan Wong, CEO, below.)

The company said that this new capability will entail a ‘context-aware AI agent that reviews contracts, invoices, and incoming legal requests, to reduce routine work and route what needs attention to the right place’.

They added that the idea is that all the data embedded in contracts and other text-based inputs into a legal team can be harnessed by First Pass, which moves that intelligence ‘upstream’.

One nifty feature that AL noted is that as requests are analysed by the AI, matters can be sent to ‘whoever has the lightest workload’ on the legal team.

In terms of the details of how it will operate, they explained:

‘For contracts, workflows can run incoming contracts against a team’s playbook or gold-standard template, returning a risk score, summary, and review before the contract reaches a lawyer.

While for invoices, Checkbox can check LEDES invoices for mathematical and formatting errors, then review line items against billing guidelines and return a corrected invoice and summary report.’…

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