UK Law Firm Deploys Copilot Studio Agent to Accelerate Legal Research and Due Diligence
A UK top-50 law firm deployed a Copilot Studio AI agent grounded in their matter archive and legal databases, cutting research time per matter by 65% and enabling associates to handle 30% more matters per month.
The Challenge
The firm's 85 fee-earners were spending an average of 6.5 hours per matter on legal research, searching precedent documents, prior advice letters, matter archives, and external legal databases. 60% of this research was on topics the firm had previously advised on, but the institutional knowledge was locked in unstructured SharePoint archives across 8 practice groups. Junior associates were re-researching from scratch rather than building on existing firm IP.
Our Solution
We deployed a Copilot Studio agent grounded in the firm's 12-year matter archive via Azure AI Foundry RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), covering 180,000 indexed documents. The agent answers natural language research questions, surfaces relevant precedents and prior advice, drafts research summaries, and identifies applicable case law. Integration with the firm's practice management system via Power Automate allows matter-context-aware responses. Strict data classification and Entra ID access controls ensure client confidentiality boundaries are enforced.
Key Outcomes
65% reduction
Research Time per Matter
Average research hours cut from 6.5 to 2.3 per matter
+30% per associate
Matter Throughput
Associates can handle significantly more matters monthly
82% of queries
Knowledge Reuse
Proportion of queries resolved from internal firm IP vs external research
4x improvement
Precedent Discovery
Relevant prior advice surfaced that manual searches missed
Technologies Used
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