Founded in 2021 by attorneys, Legau is revolutionizing how legal professionals work by providing an all-in-one solution that allows legal professionals to enhance their efficiency, reduce stress, and as a result, even improve their work-life balance. Built with attorneys in mind, Legau integrates seamlessly into existing workflows and eliminates the inefficiencies that come with managing multiple point-solutions for drafting, research, and knowledge management. The platform empowers attorneys to deliver quality legal services with more joy, empathy and balance. Sound too good to be true? We’ll explain.
What Makes Legau Remarkable?
In a typical law firm, attorneys face a vicious cycle: rising client pushback, inefficient processes, and outdated tech create pressure to do more with less. This frustration often leads to burnout, reduced profitability, and high staff turnover, despite efforts to boost revenue by increasing billable hours. Legau addresses these challenges head-on by streamlining legal drafting workflows and creating a single entry point for the essential tasks.
Key facts about Legau:
- Time saved: 22.1% per attorney
- Legal content: 9+ million documents from 30+ sources
- Operating in: Portugal and the US
- Founded by: Attorneys, for attorneys
- Impact: 75% of attorneys report feeling more satisfied at work
The Problem: Inefficiencies in Legal Drafting
Currently, drafting a legal document looks something like this:
- Attorneys search their document management system (DMS) and intranet for templates and past examples.
- They reach out to colleagues, receiving multiple documents that may or may not be helpful.
- Multiple windows are opened as they sift through documents, using “Ctrl + F” to locate relevant provisions.
- Additional research requires cross-referencing court decisions, legal papers, and various tools—leading to even more windows and distractions.
- The entire process wastes valuable time and energy, compounding inefficiency.
Attorneys spend over 1,400 hours per year on low-value tasks like drafting, research, feedback, and document searching. Legau transforms this process by integrating these workflows into a single tool within Microsoft Word.
The Legau Solution
Unlike traditional workflows that require multiple platforms and tools for each stage of drafting, Legau brings everything together into one solution. It supports the entire legal drafting cycle, from initial research to final document review.
With Legau, tasks that once required separate systems (e.g., intranets, DMS tools, search engines) are consolidated into one platform:
- Searching for templates: Done within the Legau interface.
- Drafting legal documents: Without switching between systems.
- Research: Legau integrates external and internal knowledge sources, streamlining legal research.
When it comes to improving the efficiency of legal drafting and research, integrating advanced AI into your firm’s workflow can make a world of difference. Here’s a breakdown of how leveraging AI can optimize each phase of the legal document lifecycle—from research to review.
1. Research
AI enables seamless access to external legal databases, allowing you to integrate relevant case law and resources directly into your workflow. By centralizing research materials in a knowledge bank, your team can quickly locate and reuse prior work. With AI-assisted research, you can significantly speed up the process of finding critical insights and precedents, ensuring more efficient and accurate outcomes.
2. Plan
Utilize your library of templates and content banks to create consistent, high-quality drafts from the start. AI tools further enhance this by generating structured outlines and document frameworks, giving your attorneys a well-organized starting point and streamlining the planning process.
3. Create
By integrating AI with your Document Management System, all legal documents remain organized and easily accessible. AI-assisted drafting tools speed up the creation process, allowing for faster, more accurate drafts while ensuring consistency and reducing errors in legal documents.
4. Review
AI allows for effortless comparison between your firm’s standards and received documents, automatically applying markup and highlighting discrepancies. Redlining and issue identification are streamlined with AI, enabling attorneys to focus on key revisions without missing any details. AI-assisted revisions ensure that every document is precise, polished, and ready for submission.
Why Clients Love Legau
- Embedded experience: Legau is integrated within a tool that attorneys already know—Microsoft Word—making it easy to adopt without steep learning curves.
- Quick time to value: The platform is intuitive and attorney-centered, with no unnecessary features or setup hassles.
- One point of entry: Legal documents, workflows, and knowledge management in one place, reducing the need to juggle multiple tools.
- Preserving institutional knowledge: Integration with DMS, clause libraries, and templates ensures knowledge is easily accessible and validated.
The Benefits
- Increased efficiency: Law firms report 22.1% time saving per attorney, freeing up hours for other tasks and client development.
- Improved revenue: By optimizing time spent on administrative tasks, attorneys can focus on higher-value work and business development.
- Better work-life balance: With streamlined workflows, attorneys experience less fatigue, boosting retention and overall job satisfaction.
- Margin protection: Increased value perception from clients, along with tech optimization, leads to better outcomes and profitability.
A New Era for Law Firms
Legau represents a shift toward more holistic legal technology solutions. Instead of dealing with inefficient, piecemeal tech, law firms can now benefit from a unified platform that integrates drafting, research, and knowledge management. The result? Attorneys can focus on what they do best—delivering exceptional legal services with greater efficiency, satisfaction, and balance. To watch a 10 minute demonstration of the Legau product, see here.
