Waves of tariffs introduced by the U.S. administration have sent many companies — and their law firms — scrambling to assess exposure.
But how do clients decide which law firms to go to for this work? We know companies appreciate law firms that understand their business deeply and remember them when potential legal and regulatory events affecting their business arise. However, the traditional approach to law firm regulatory updates is pretty broad. Clients receive a lot of updates, not all of which are relevant.
Focusing Business Development Efforts
As a law firm, what if you could micro-target those clients who might need assistance and focus your outreach on them? To do so, you would need a platform for your firm that answers such questions as:
- Which clients are impacted?
- Which contracts and relationships might be impacted?
With answers to these questions, a law firm might even proactively analyze and offer to remediate contractual protections that are (or aren't) in place, such as price protections or improved force majuere language.
Legal teams with a platform like this can move from being reactive legal advisors towards being proactive partners to their client’s business.
How DeepJudge AI Workflows Help
DeepJudge AI workflows can help law firms gain access to detailed information about their clients’ contracts and relationships and use it to deepen their relationships with them.
Imagine having the ability to distribute a memo on the impact of the US tariffs to clients that are most likely to be involved in import/export.
DeepJudge has a built-in template for a workflow that helps with exactly this. With a few clicks, a DeepJudge AI agent runs across all of your firm’s documents, quickly identifying the cross-border distribution and supply agreements across your client base. It then assembles them in a nicely ordered table, sorted by client. Each row has links directly to the source language in the original documents.
How It Works
DeepJudge can do this because it has real-time full-scale access to your documents and data, right where they sit—no downloading and re-uploading. And you never have to worry about ethical walls, access permissions or outside counsel guidelines because DeepJudge mirrors all of those from the source systems.
The flow is straightforward. Although there are more than several dozen steps, at the core this workflow combines the best of search, AI classification, and LLM prompting to achieve these results. Importantly, it uses DeepJudge's built-in document classifier to find distribution or supply agreements, even if they were not tagged as such by users of your document management system. After retrieving the right kinds of agreements, it passes them through an LLM, prompting it to "reason" whether the parties are involved in cross-border trade. And once it has the list of the documents that meet the criteria, it assembles the output into the list shown above.
DeepJudge workflows are completely customizable, so if our default doesn't quite fit your needs, it’s possible to clone and modify it as much as you like.
Why It Matters
When regulation changes, law firms have a choice: react slowly, or respond strategically.
DeepJudge allows your team to identify at-risk contracts, pinpoint client exposure, and deliver high-value advice — fast. Whether you're helping a client mitigate risk or win new work, speed and clarity matter.
AI isn’t just a time-saver. It’s a growth driver — if it’s deeply connected to your data and easy to adapt.