Kirkland and Ellis just bet $500M that buying AI isn’t enough. They’re right. – Draftwise

When Kirkland and Ellis, the highest-grossing law firm in the world, announced it was investing $500 million to develop its own proprietary AI platform, the market paid attention. The firm’s chair, Jon Ballis, was direct about the reasoning: general AI tools are “raising the floor for everyone.” K&E, he said, does not get hired for […]

Draftwise and Egnyte launch AI contract intelligence in secure workflows

Draftwise, the leading contract intelligence platform for legal drafting, review, and negotiation, announced a strategic technology partnership with Egnyte, a leader in secure content collaboration, intelligence, and governance. The integration enables legal teams to leverage Draftwise’s AI-powered contract intelligence directly from Egnyte’s secure document infrastructure, eliminating friction between document storage and contract review. With the […]

Playbook drift: early detection checklist – Draftwise

Having a playbook and keeping it accurate are two different challenges. In practice, what you agree to doesn’t always make it back into the playbook, and the gap between your playbook and your executed documents widens deal by deal, quarter by quarter, until your portfolio no longer reflects the risk posture you think you have. […]

Deploying legal AI? Ask these security questions – Draftwise

Legal AI platforms process your most sensitive data: client files, deal terms, negotiation strategy, and work product. Before onboarding a new platform or tool, your firm needs answers to a specific set of security questions. Most vendor evaluations don’t ask them. This guide covers what to ask and why it matters. Start With Ownership, Not […]

Draftwise: Smart firms don’t pay the trust tax

The real cost of legal technology does not show up on an invoice. It shows up in lost time, in friction during review, and in the quiet drift back to old habits when tools fail to deliver. Leading firms have learned to measure this cost. They call it the Trust Tax. What is the trust […]

Two tools, Two jobs: How to know which legal AI is right for your work – Draftwise

General-purpose AI legal plugins and purpose-built legal AI platforms are both real, both useful, and built for fundamentally different work. The distinction is worth understanding before you evaluate either. You paste a redline into a general-purpose AI tool, and it returns clean, confident output in under a minute. The language is reasonable. The risk flags […]

Draftwise partners with Goodwin on firmwide rollout

Draftwise, the contract intelligence platform, announced that it has partnered with global law firm Goodwin, an industry-built law firm that seamlessly fuses legal excellence with strategic and business advisory, to harness its latest technology to more efficiently provide Goodwin’s clients with the highest quality work in a rapidly changing legal landscape. “Goodwin is exactly the […]

Tony Mauriello at Draftwise on why he didn’t go to Law school to search for precedent

As General Counsel of DraftWise, I operate at the center of a fast-moving pipeline of contract negotiations, where timing, precision, and consistency matter on every deal. The challenge is not the volume. It’s maintaining consistency, speed, and institutional knowledge across every redline. Without a centralized way to access our actual deal history, I used to […]

Precedent research: A new category of legal technology- Draftwise

Case law research has always been and will remain a cornerstone of legal practice. Platforms like Thomson Reuters and LexisNexis provide direct access to judicial rulings and industry standards, which help lawyers verify that their work aligns with current court interpretations and established market norms.

Introducing Playbook Studio – Draftwise

Introducing Playbook Studio: The first AI contract review tool to automate playbook creation. Draftwise Playbook Studio automatically creates and maintains playbooks from your deal history, ensuring every negotiation reflects your highest standards. Reduce playbook creation time from 6+ hours to 5 minutes.