Case Study: Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer achieves 20–40% efficiency gains and wins new business with Litera Kira

Freshfields Wins New Business and Improves Efficiency by 20–40%

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, a Global Elite law firm based in London, faced a high‑stakes due diligence challenge after changes to German anti‑bribery law: it needed to review and assess exposure across a complex set of more than 11,500 contracts for a healthcare client under a tight deadline. To scale classification and extraction work quickly, the firm deployed Kira, the contract‑analysis product from Litera Kira.

Using Litera Kira’s Kira platform and its Quick Study machine‑learning tools, Freshfields trained the system to classify contract types, extract six German boilerplate clauses and flag potentially problematic provisions, then exported summaries for reviewer validation and client reporting. The engagement delivered 20–40% efficiency gains, enabled timely review of the 11,500+ documents, generated follow‑on work (about 5,000 German and 800 Spanish documents) and demonstrated measurable speed and cost‑effectiveness for Freshfields.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Isabel Parker

Director of Legal Innovation