Castrén & Snellman is launching C&S AI Portal, a digital workspace that brings refined AI workflows to the legal teams of client organisations. This workspace, powered by Legora, allows legal teams to utilise tailor-made AI use cases and workflows without a heavy implementation process.
C&S AI Portal combines the in-depth business law expertise of Castrén & Snellman’s lawyers with the AI know-how of our Legal Tech team. The tool is suited both for individual use cases and for streamlining and automating the day-to-day work of an entire legal team. It also brings value to clients who already use Legora but have not yet been able to build their own workflows on the platform.
The C&S AI Portal is transforming the way we make our expertise available to our clients. Through the portal, we are able to scale our expertise more widely for legal teams. Castrén & Snellman’s strategy is to create tangible added value for our clients and to support them in their AI transformation,
Managing Partner Jarno Tanhuanpää says.
AI-assisted workflows for lawyers’ day-to-day work
‘Many of our clients struggle with the effective implementation of AI tools and with accessing support in using them. We are now able to offer them an easy-to-deploy and cost-efficient solution for AI work,’ says Director of Knowledge Management & Innovation Paula Aura.
C&S AI Portal leverages Legora’s functionalities that enhance and harmonise ways of working and serve as a quality assurance for the output. Team members can also collaborate in real time on shared projects, enabling interactive and AI-assisted working.
The client’s legal team gains access to more than ten ready-made use cases, including contract review, document drafting, updating internal guidelines and legal research. Additional use cases can be developed for the client and added to C&S AI Portal as needed.
Naturally, C&S AI Portal also comes with state-of-the-art security, including GDPR and AICPA SOC compliance and ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certification.
Support for your AI initiatives from C&S’s Legal Tech team
The six members of our Legal Tech team specialise in the use of generative AI and other legal tech tools in legal work. They help our clients to map and analyse technologies and to identify the most suitable solution as well as training that ensures successful implementation.
If you would like to discuss your organisation’s AI initiatives or hear more about how C&S AI Portal could boost the work of your legal team, please get in touch:
- Paula Aura
- Mia Ihamuotila
- Lotta Pettersson.
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