Summary
Emma Kadri Bergström, General Counsel at Legora, explains how her own legal team uses AI to work faster without lowering quality. She opens with a story from a decade ago, when summarizing the license periods of a pile of vendor contracts overnight was effectively impossible, and notes that today it is routine.
The core example is NDA review. The team first automated these low-excitement documents, then built playbooks that let the AI take a first pass and flag terms outside what the company will accept. Before these automations, about 20% of full-time employee hours went to NDA reviews; afterward, that dropped to under 1%, freeing lawyers for higher-value contracts and strategic deals.
Bergström says this efficiency let a small team keep pace with rapid growth, including expansion from three offices to 18, three financing rounds, and five acquisitions in 12 months. She also addresses what stays human: accountability for the advice and the interpersonal, strategic side of the job. Her message to other legal departments is to avoid becoming a bottleneck, stay involved early in projects, and embrace new tools. The video is a practical look at AI contract automation inside a real legal team.
📺 Source: OpenAI · Published October 28, 2026
🏷️ Format: Workflow Case Study
