Webinar Replay: How to make AI actually work for contract review

In this webinar, Caroline Hill and Legalfly's legal solutions engineer Stéphanie Adriaens share practical guidance on how legal teams can successfully implement AI in contract review. The discussion focuses on the foundational steps required to ensure AI delivers real value, and includes a no nonsense chat about the mistakes commonly made, as well as best practice experience. Adriaens, who is a former transactions lawyer at Freshfields, addressed how you identify the right contracts, with an emphasis on high-volume, routine agreements such as NDAs. A central theme is alignment. Legal teams must agree on review approaches and negotiation positions, often formalised through a playbook that acts as a single source of truth. The speakers highlight that preparation is critical: defining templates, fallback positions, and internal guidelines upfront allows AI tools to perform accurately and consistently. The session also explores how playbooks should evolve over time. By iterating based on feedback and assigning clear ownership, teams can continuously refine their processes. Importantly, success metrics should go beyond speed to include consistency, quality, and business satisfaction. One of the common misconceptions addressed is that AI is not a plug-and-play solution: it reflects the quality of existing processes. With a “human-in-the-loop” approach and incremental adoption, legal teams can build trust and unlock long-term efficiency gains. Legalfly is helping in-house teams build agentic solutions, and we discuss what those look like and how far down the agentic path clients are.