On Lawyers and Their Tools
A reflection on how lawyers relate to technology, from traditional legal tools to AI-enabled workflows.
Mayne Wetherell rationalises its legal tech stack with legal engineering
Tilt Legal helped a leading New Zealand law firm assess its legal technology landscape and shape a consolidation roadmap. We ran workflow and stakeholder discovery, mapped capabilities, and produced architecture diagrams and decision-ready documentation. The firm gained a clearer view of overlaps, gaps, and priorities for future investment.
How Seeing Machines cuts agreement turnaround from months to days
A listed transport safety technology company needed faster installer and partner agreements across legal, procurement, and external parties. Tilt Legal built an automated workflow using Power Automate, DocuSign, and Oracle NetSuite, with a simple path for standard agreements and escalation for variations. Turnaround fell from months to hours or days.
Embedding legal engineering to scale a large in‑house legal function
Tilt Legal embedded with a multinational ASX-listed company’s legal operations team to add delivery capacity and improve reporting and automation. We built Power BI dashboards, Power Automate workflows, Nintex forms, and a Power Apps matter management system. A quarterly reporting cycle fell from weeks to a few days.
The Gap Nobody's Talking About: AI's Promise vs. the Work to Get There
A practical look at the gap between AI’s hype and the real work required to deploy it in legal teams—data readiness, workflow design, governance, and change management.
How we use Effect.ts to review thousands of agreements
A practical look at building a concurrent, rate-limited AI pipeline in TypeScript with Effect — covering dependency injection, typed errors, semaphores, and observability at scale.
Balance Legal Capital automates legal bill review with Mobius
From spreadsheets to system — building a rule-based verification workflow for litigation finance.
HSF Kramer redefines ESG reporting with HERO
How Tilt Legal partnered with Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer to build HERO, a secure web platform that simplifies ESG reporting across AASB S2, ESRS and related frameworks — from MVP in 3 months to enterprise adoption.