A polished demo tells you little about how a tool will perform on your own contracts, with your playbook, under a real deadline. This guide gives general counsel and legal leaders a way to test legal AI on that real work, built to hold up whichever vendor, point solution, or enterprise AI tool you end up choosing.

Inside:

• The eight criteria that separate a legal AI platform from a point solution or a law-firm tool sold in-house, each with the failure mode to watch for.

• A technical, security, and governance checklist to hand to IT on day one.

• A total cost comparison that sets license fees against the capacity created and the outside counsel spend displaced.

• An eight-week pilot design with a weighted scorecard, a blind output comparison, and a decision rule your team writes down before anyone has a favorite.

• A buyer’s checklist that runs from naming the problem to the month-six checkpoint.