Skip to content

Connect the people, drafts, decisions, and approvals behind legal work.

Explore a legal design partnershipGet early access

Matter #1042

5 versions · 16 days

AI assistant + associate

First markup from the precedent bank · 0.6 h

Documents, client emails, AI sessions and approvals all live in different places. When a matter takes three rounds instead of one, nobody has the full picture.

Lavora puts every step of a matter on one timeline, so you can see why it went the way it did and fix it for the next one.

Where one matter lives today:

  • Email

    Re: indemnity scope? · no reply for 5 days

  • Document management

    MSA_v3.docx · 41 lines changed · 14 comments

  • Matter management

    #1042 · status: In review

  • AI drafting assistant

    Session · first markup · 38 min

  • Approval log

    #1042 · no entry

Matter #1042 · supplier contract review

Who did what, which draft changed and why, and where the matter waited. Pick a view to follow AI drafting, review rework or client delays.

Elapsed

16 days

instruction → delivery

Active effort

7.2 h

across 3 people

Review rounds

3

2 returned work

Waiting

7 days

inferred from gaps

Whole matter

16 days, 13 steps, 5 versions

The full route of Matter #1042, reconstructed from email, the DMS, matter management and the AI assistant's session log. Select any step or version.

  6. waits on client information · 5 days

  10. Cap carve-outs no longer consistent with the new cap. Sent back for revision.

    System
    DMS · comments
    Owner
    Partner
    Effort
    0.9 h
    recorded
  12. queue · 2 days
recordedinferredto validatedependencywaiting

The reasons a matter overran usually live in someone's memory and an old email thread. By the next similar matter, they're gone.

Lavora answers from the matter's own history and shows the source for every point. It explains the work. Legal judgment and advice stay with your lawyers.

Why did Matter #1042 require three review rounds?

Reading 31 events across Email, DMS, Matter management and the AI drafting assistant…

    Try asking

    Ask about any matter, step or version…

    Drafting time drops, but checking AI output and extra review rounds can quietly eat the time saved.

    Lavora compares AI-assisted matters with your usual ones across the whole process, then shows what's worth changing.

    associate + partner hours per matter

    Without AI assistant

    7.7h

    Average of 18 earlier MSA matters

    With AI assistant

    5.7h

    12 matters in the last 8 weeks

    • Drafting
    • Checking AI output
    • Review rounds
    • Rework

    Faster drafting, more reviewing.

    • Drafting

      −4.0 h

      4.6 h → 0.6 h per matter

    • Checking + review + rework

      +2.0 h

      3.1 h → 5.1 h · more review rounds

    • Net effort

      −2.0 h

      saved per matter

    • Client information requests

      Repeats on 7 of 12 MSA matters

      Redesign: ask once, at intake

      ValueFeasibleRisk

    • First-draft markup

      High volume, precedent-based

      AI-assisted, associate checks

      ValueFeasibleRisk

    • Liability & governing-law positions

      Agreed on similar prior matters

      Surface precedent at drafting time

      ValueFeasibleRisk

    • Indemnity and liability judgement

      Professional judgement

      Keep with lawyers

      ValueFeasibleRisk

    • Status-update emails to client

      3 per matter, no downstream use found

      Consider stopping

      ValueFeasibleRisk

    Ranked on value, feasibility and risk. Lawyers decide what changes.

    Help us make the work behind every matter visible.

    Bring us the matters where review rounds pile up or client information stalls. We'll map them with you and see where Lavora helps.

    Explore a legal design partnershipGet early access