Legal Research Assistant
The AI generates outputs for a lawyer to review. It does not act independently.
Human-in-the-Loop · no detailed pattern
Examples
Worked examples
Real workflows mapped to the Loop model. Each example shows which governance pattern fits and why: review, monitor, or own.
Which model fits?
Contract Summary Tool
The human still decides whether to rely on the summary.
View detailed architecture →Regulatory Monitoring System
The system monitors at scale and escalates relevant changes.
View detailed architecture →Legal Matter Triage Agent
The system classifies, routes and creates operational consequences.
View detailed architecture →Contract Obligation Tracker
The system may trigger reminders, escalate risk and affect deadline management.
View detailed architecture →Client Email Response Agent
External communication creates higher risk. HAL may apply, but some actions may still require Human-in-the-Loop approval.
View detailed architecture →Reference architectures
Detailed governance designs for common agentic workflows, including flow, controls, escalation paths, and HAL scores where applicable.
Legal Services Recommendation
Legal Matter Intake
An agent that receives inbound matters, extracts key facts, classifies matter type, and proposes a routing, leaving the assignment decision to a human.
HAL 28/40 Worked example
Governed
Compliance Recommendation
Regulatory Monitoring
An agent that watches regulatory sources, identifies changes relevant to the business, and drafts impact summaries for the compliance team.
HAL 30/40 Worked example
Governed
Legal Services Recommendation
Contract Review
An agent that reviews incoming contracts against a playbook, flags deviations, and proposes redlines for a lawyer to approve.
HAL 29/40 Governed
Legal Services Advice
Client Communication Drafting
An assistant that drafts client communications for a professional to review and send, with drafting-only authority enforced in code, because the defining risk at this band is authority creep.
HAL 29/40 Worked example
Governed
Legal Services Execution
Contract Obligation Tracking
An agent that extracts obligations from executed contracts, schedules reminders, and notifies owners as deadlines approach.
HAL 31/40 Worked example
Governed
Financial Services Execution
Client Onboarding
An agent that orchestrates onboarding: collecting documents, running checks, and progressing the case, pausing for human approval at decision gates.
HAL 30/40 Governed
Technology Execution
Customer Service
An agent that resolves common customer requests end to end within tight limits, and hands off anything outside its remit.
HAL 27/40 Governed
Financial Services Recommendation
Compliance Monitoring
An agent that monitors transactions and communications for compliance risk, prioritising cases for the surveillance team.
HAL 32/40 Governed
Technology Execution
Content Moderation
An agent that moderates user content against policy, auto-actioning clear cases and escalating the ambiguous ones.
HAL 33/40 Worked example
Accountable
Financial Services Autonomous
Financial Approval
An agent that approves low-value, low-risk payments automatically within strict limits. This is the highest-autonomy pattern, demanding the strongest controls.
HAL 36/40 Accountable