Practice note, July 11, 2025
Practice note: making a status report a client reads to the end
The problem
Every review team we work with has a version of this problem. Making a status report a client reads to the end rarely announces itself.
In testing, the gap between a fast pass and a careful pass was not accuracy on the central question. It was whether the reviewer noticed the interaction with an adjacent provision.
What we do about it
We treat anything the system cannot ground in source text as unverified and show it as such. A visible gap is cheaper than a confident error.
In the current build this runs as part of the standard pass, so it applies to every document in the set rather than only the ones someone thought to check.
Where it breaks
Scanned originals with poor image quality remain the weakest input. So do agreements that were assembled from three precedents and never reconciled, which is common in long-lived supplier relationships.
None of this removes the reviewer. It moves the reviewer to the part of the work where judgement actually pays.
Working notes from the Lawrs team. General information about legal technology and practice, not legal advice.