As AI tools become more accessible, in‑house legal teams are starting to build their own answers to everyday problems – often faster than vendors or law firms can respond. But the teams making real progress are not simply adopting new technology; they are changing how they lead, creating space for experimentation, and rethinking how legal work should be done in the first place. Tom Saunders brings us more on this important in-house topic in the Orange Rag Insights column.
Andrew Cooke, general counsel at travel and spend management company Perk recently took part in a hackathon organised by lawyer-coder group LegalQuants. Out of it, he created an AI-enabled bill review tool called Eden, which he has made freely available to other in-house teams. Eden assists in-house lawyers with creating external counsel guidelines, reviewing and improving existing guidelines and has a bill review co-pilot. Saunders spoke with Cooke about the process; how he identified this area as ripe for something new; and the strategy now behind buillding internal capability.
Read more in the April Orange Rag HERE
