Practice note, July 24, 2026
Practice note: reviewing an NDA in four minutes without missing the assignment clause
The problem
The short version: reviewing an NDA in four minutes without missing the assignment clause is easier to get wrong than most teams assume, and the failure is usually silent.
Volume changes the shape of the problem. At ten documents you can hold the exceptions in your head. At four hundred you need the exceptions written down and checkable.
What we do about it
We score against a human baseline drawn from executed matters rather than a synthetic set, because synthetic contracts do not contain the drafting scars that cause real misses.
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.
If you take one thing from this, make it the habit of checking the adjacent provision before you sign off the clause in front of you.
Working notes from the Lawrs team. General information about legal technology and practice, not legal advice.