Case Study: Dentons achieves 50% faster contract reviews and uncovers a critical clause variation with Luminance

Dentons Düsseldorf leverages AI technology in contract review

Dentons’ Düsseldorf office was engaged by a major car manufacturer to review roughly 2,100 German and English dealership contracts to assess provisions on the dealerships’ use of the manufacturer’s signage. Conscious of time and cost pressures, Dentons opted for a technology-enhanced review and used Luminance (including its LITE intelligence) to quickly surface and analyse relevant clauses across the large corpus.

Using Luminance’s unsupervised machine learning and Automatic Document and Clause Compliance tools, Dentons clustered documents to isolate about 800 contracts with signage provisions, compared each to a chosen standard clause, and instantly highlighted deviations—identifying one contract with a substantive variation. The Luminance-powered review took under two and a half days (over 50% faster than the estimated week for a manual review by two lawyers), delivering faster, more cost-effective and more comprehensive results.

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