Function cockpit
Legal
Agents draft, extract and verify. Lawyers hold judgment and privilege.
Phase: Phase 2 — Bounded execution
Industrialize intake, drafting, obligation monitoring and regulatory sensing so legal attention concentrates on judgment, privilege, negotiation and representation.
Trust score
0
Touchless
0%
Human review
0%
Override rate
0%
Capacity released
30-50% released legal-operating capacity (not autonomous legal judgment)
Accountable human
General Counsel
CoS agent: Legal Chief of Staff
Eleven decomposed sub-functions, each with its own estate rating
Sub-functions
Legal, decomposed
Nobody automates a function. They automate the sub-functions inside it, at different speeds, with different ceilings. Each one carries its own orchestrator, its own human owner, and its own honest limit.
Autonomy ceiling range
56%→88%
The binding constraint here is Employment Legal — capped at 56%.
The lowest ceiling in the entire estate alongside Litigation. Employment law is jurisdiction-specific and personally consequential; agents prepare, qualified counsel always decides.
Contract Lifecycle Orchestrator · human owner Director, Commercial Contracts
estate rating
Owns contract work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 20 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 5 human gates.
In-policy paper is drafted, redlined and executed without a lawyer touching it. Anything off the fallback ladder routes to named counsel, because the exposure is contractual and permanent.
Units / wk
11,220
Agents
10
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$11
was $43
Commercial Advisory Orchestrator · human owner Associate General Counsel, Commercial
estate rating
Owns advisory matter work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Agents draft the advice and the reasoning. Legal advice is privileged and relied upon, so a qualified human signs every answer that leaves the function.
Units / wk
14,214
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$7.32
was $19
Corporate Secretariat Orchestrator · human owner Company Secretary
estate rating
Owns corporate action work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Assembly, calendaring and filing mechanics are automated. Minutes and authority changes are approved by named officers because they are the legal record of what the company decided.
Units / wk
7,927
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$6.03
was $15
Compliance Orchestrator · human owner Chief Compliance Officer
estate rating
Owns compliance case work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 18 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Screening and attestation run at scale without humans. Every sanctions hit and every ethics report is handled by a named person — an agent must never close a whistleblower case.
Units / wk
16,344
Agents
9
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$5.37
was $17
Regulatory Affairs Orchestrator · human owner VP Regulatory Affairs
estate rating
Owns regulatory item work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Horizon scanning and impact mapping are continuous and agentic. Anything filed with a regulator is signed by an officer, because it binds the company.
Units / wk
12,245
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$2.76
was $8.08
IP Orchestrator · human owner Chief IP Counsel
estate rating
Owns IP matter work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Search, docketing and renewals are automated. Whether to file, abandon or enforce a patent is a capital and strategy decision a committee makes.
Units / wk
10,374
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$2.30
was $8.10
Litigation Orchestrator · human owner VP Litigation
estate rating
Owns matter work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 20 stations, drains the repeatable share into no shared tower, and holds 6 human gates.
Deliberately the lowest ceiling in Legal. Agents review documents and build chronologies at scale, but privilege calls and settlement authority are personal to a qualified lawyer.
Units / wk
10,475
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$16
was $43
Employment Legal Orchestrator · human owner Associate General Counsel, Employment
estate rating
Owns employment matter work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 19 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 5 human gates.
The lowest ceiling in the entire estate alongside Litigation. Employment law is jurisdiction-specific and personally consequential; agents prepare, qualified counsel always decides.
Units / wk
10,567
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$22
was $43
Privacy Orchestrator · human owner Data Protection Officer
estate rating
Owns privacy case work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 21 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 6 human gates.
Subject requests are located and assembled autonomously against a statutory clock. Notifiability is a judgment with regulatory penalties attached, so a named privacy officer decides.
Units / wk
5,925
Agents
9
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$14
was $33
Outside Counsel Orchestrator · human owner Director, Legal Operations
estate rating
Owns engagement work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 16 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 4 human gates.
Guideline enforcement on legal invoices is exactly the kind of high-volume rules work agents do better than people. Engagement of a firm remains a human commitment.
Units / wk
8,028
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$8.34
was $29
Legal Ops Orchestrator · human owner Director, Legal Operations
estate rating
Owns ops item work end to end inside Legal. Runs 3 lines across 14 stations, drains the repeatable share into the LEGAL tower, and holds 3 human gates.
Pure operations work with no legal judgment in it. Categorization, anomaly detection and template extraction run without a human in the loop.
Units / wk
773
Agents
8
Lines
3
Cost / unit
$4.37
was $17
How to read an estate rating
The rating is not a maturity badge. It scores seven control dimensions — control coverage, evidence quality, override discipline, data integrity, recovery readiness, cost transparency, and judgment readiness. Judgment readiness runs deliberately against autonomy: a sub-function that has pushed automation hardest usually scores worst on whether a human could still take the decision back.