AI doesn’t tell us how to decide a case, but it helps us reach the information faster.

Until fairly recently, our firm worked in a way that is common in legal practice. All of our attorneys – from junior colleagues to partners – used established legal databases and competing tools that have long been regarded as the market standard.

That way of working was functional. The information was available. But the problem wasn’t the data – it was the time, the clarity and the certainty of the result. We had the information at hand, yet finding and assessing it often took more time than would have been ideal – especially in more complex cases.

This was particularly evident in employment law, which we handle most often. Employment disputes are frequently complex on the facts, the case law keeps evolving and a small detail can have a decisive impact on the outcome.

At a certain point, attorneys started talking more about CODEXIS AI than about commonly available AI models. This wasn’t about official presentations or marketing. It was more an informal exchange of experience between colleagues who compared the results of their research and discussed how the various AI tools work in practice.

CODEXIS AI came up repeatedly in these conversations – particularly in connection with working with case law, which can have a fundamental impact on the quality of the output.

One of the first major tests was preparing the materials for an employment dispute she was handling. It was a case where she needed to combine case law, employment-law specifics and the specific circumstances of the employee.

In this case, CODEXIS AI allowed her to find the relevant decisions faster, place them better in context and save the time she would otherwise have spent in the databases.

When, after several weeks of use, our colleague presented concrete results, the decision was clear. An individual experiment became the standard, which we rolled out across the entire firm – from trainee lawyers to partners.

Thanks to CODEXIS AI, our trainee lawyers and attorneys now have access to very high-quality and incredibly fast case-law research. As a result, they can focus better on argumentation, case strategy and client communication.

Looking back, CODEXIS AI was not a technology experiment for us, nor a marketing novelty. It was a practical tool that, from a partner’s perspective, I see on three levels: time savings, higher-quality output and the satisfaction of a team that gains more room for strategic thinking and for clients.