Today we are introducing the Legal Agent in Microsoft Word. Whether you are generating redlines or reviewing counterparty changes, the agent handles tedious work, so legal professionals can focus on high-impact decisions.
The Legal Agent was built in close collaboration with legal engineers to reflect how contracts are reviewed and negotiated. Instead of relying on general AI models to interpret commands, the agent follows structured workflows shaped by real legal practice, managing clearly defined, repeatable tasks like reviewing contracts clause by clause against a playbook.
The agent applies edits in the document through a purpose-built insertion algorithm to drive consistency regardless of how each edit was introduced. The agent’s redlining engine understands the structure of a Word document, not just visible text. It understands and structures Microsoft 365 document format into a representation that preserves formatting, lists, tables, and tracked changes. From there, the agent applies a deterministic resolution layer over the edits, including author-specific changes, instead of relying on an LLM to generate every revision directly. This provides a more reliable foundation for handling complex contracts while helping reduce latency and cost.
Read more about the new Legal Agent for Word for Microsoft 365 Copilot subscribers at:
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Word: Legal Agent in Frontier
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/microsoft365copilotblog/word-legal-agent-in-frontier/4516218 - TRAINING: Get started with the Legal Agent
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-started-with-the-legal-agent-frontier-c72cc686-552b-45d4-9e46-d731f9d57052
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