An AI assistant that replaced a 3-person offshore paralegal team.
A personal-injury firm was outsourcing paralegal work to a three-person offshore team: costly, slow, and risky where one missed deadline can sink a case. We brought the work back in-house, automated.
- 3-person team
- offshore paralegal function replaced
- Zero
- missed deadlines, review automated
- ~10 hrs/wk
- returned to attorneys for casework
- Tens of thousands
- saved per year
The challenge
The firm outsourced its paralegal workload to a three-person team a dozen time zones away: costly, slow, and risky in a practice where a single missed deadline can sink a case. Document review and deadline tracking lived offshore, with no real visibility and constant coordination overhead.
What we built
An AI assistant that absorbed the paralegal workflow. It ingests inbound documents and automatically extracts filing deadlines, key facts, and case-critical detail, strengthening the firm's existing process and bringing the work back in-house. Built on Anvil's document-intelligence and extraction engine.
“It does the work of our whole paralegal team, faster, and it never misses a deadline.”
Managing partner, personal-injury law firm
Why it worked
The firm didn't need a generic legal-tech subscription; it needed its specific workflow understood and automated. We diagnosed the operation, pointed proven Anvil modules at the firm's documents, and shipped a working assistant in weeks. Production, not a pilot.