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LegalOn Technologies Says New AI Feature Flags Contradictions Within and Between Contracts
LegalOn Technologies says its LegalOn product now has an AI review feature that flags contradictions within a contract and with related agreements. The company says it also flags unclear terms and supports drafting revisions with tracked ch
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LegalOn Technologies said on November 6 that it is beginning to offer a new AI review feature that flags issues not covered by existing review criteria, such as contradictions between clauses and related contracts. The feature is part of its LegalOn product, and the company says it is intended to supplement checks based on existing review criteria. The company says it also supports examining overall consistency and preparing revisions.
Checks beyond preset review criteria
LegalOn Technologies says contract review requires more than checking each clause against a list of preset standards. Terms may conflict within one document, or a master agreement and an individual contract may set different conditions without making clear which one applies. The company says deciding whether a difference reflects the parties’ intended agreement or a contradiction to correct requires considering the contract as a whole and how related documents fit together.
The company says it can be burdensome to anticipate every issue that might arise in a particular contract and keep adding those issues to review criteria. It says the new feature looks for additional points to examine based on the contract’s contents. The company says the resulting alerts are intended to help legal staff assess consistency and decide whether changes or negotiations are needed.
Company says feature checks clauses and attached related agreements
According to the company, the AI reads the contract as a whole and can flag contradictions between clauses that may be difficult to catch using preset criteria alone. When users attach related documents, such as a master agreement or memorandum, it can also identify contradictions between those documents and the contract under review. The company says the feature can raise other questions about whether contract terms are clear, including uncertainty over completion obligations, delivery deadlines and acceptance criteria.
The company says it can also flag duplicated clause numbers that make references ambiguous. The company says it supports review that considers not only individual provisions but also how they connect to the whole contract and related agreements. The company says the feature searches the contract’s contents for issues, alongside checks against established review points.
Company says feature can be used with LegalOn Alert and Playbook Alert
The company says the new checks can be used alongside LegalOn Alert, which draws on lawyer-supervised review criteria included in the product, and Playbook Alert, which uses a company’s own criteria. Those existing alerts examine contracts against predetermined checkpoints; the additional feature looks for issues in the contract itself. LegalOn Technologies says the different types of findings appear in the same review screen.
The company says this lets legal teams use their established review policies while adding checks for issues specific to the contract being examined. It says the additional review can catch contradictions involving related documents even when they do not relate to an existing checkpoint.
Company says findings show their rationale and revisions come with tracked changes
The company says each finding includes a summary, an importance rating and the basis for the alert. It says selecting a finding highlights the relevant passage in the contract, giving legal staff the issue and its stated rationale to assess. The company says that for eligible findings, LegalOn’s AI Revise feature can prepare a proposed change.
The company says the proposed revision enters the contract with tracked changes, and users can review it and choose to accept it or revert it. It says the feature is available in the desktop Word add-in and in reviews in Microsoft Word for the web opened from LegalOn.