Contract review is one of the highest-leverage places for AI in legal work, especially when it is designed to reinforce legal judgment.

Using real-world contract review workflows, this session explores how leading legal teams use AI directly inside Microsoft Word to apply their negotiation standards consistently, surface risk faster, and reduce review friction without sacrificing control.

Rather than focusing on prompt engineering or generic automation, the discussion centers on how teams operationalize legal judgment through playbooks, precedent, and structured review. Attendees will learn how AI can support faster, more consistent contract review while keeping lawyers firmly in the decision-making role.

Attendees will learn:

• How to scale contract review without diluting legal judgment
• Why playbooks matter more than prompts
• How AI can reduce review time while increasing consistency across reviewers
• What responsible, lawyer-led AI adoption really looks like in practice