The challenge
A top US law firm specializing in international arbitration needed a faster, more reliable way to review financial damages across large volumes of case documents. The existing process was entirely manual — attorneys spent hundreds of hours cross-referencing financial claims, extracting relevant figures, and verifying citations across thousands of pages of filings, exhibits, and expert reports.
The key problems:
- Financial damages review consumed disproportionate associate time at premium billing rates
- Citation verification was manual, error-prone, and difficult to audit
- No structured way to flag inconsistencies or compare damages scenarios across cases
- Partners lacked a centralized view of risk exposure across active arbitration matters
The firm needed a system that could accelerate review without sacrificing the citation accuracy and traceability that international arbitration demands.
Our approach
DSL designed and built a citation-grounded AI platform purpose-built for arbitration financial damages analysis. The system was engineered around the firm's actual workflows, not adapted from a generic legal AI product.
The solution included:
- AI-powered extraction of financial claims, figures, and citations from arbitration filings and expert reports
- Citation-backed outputs — every extracted data point linked to its source document, page, and paragraph
- Structural risk flagging to identify inconsistencies, unsupported claims, and calculation discrepancies
- Scenario comparison tools enabling attorneys to model alternative damages calculations side by side
- Role-based access controls and audit trails to meet the firm's data governance requirements
- Human review checkpoints at every stage — the AI assisted, attorneys decided
The results
- 4x reduction in manual document review time for financial damages analysis
- Citation-grounded outputs that attorneys could verify and present with confidence
- Structural risk flags caught inconsistencies that manual review had missed in prior matters
- The platform won the Most Innovative Legal Solution Award
- The system was built for the firm's environment and is operated by the firm's team — no ongoing vendor dependency
