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What Is an AI Agent in Legal Work?

An AI system that carries out a multi-step task on its own, such as gathering documents, reviewing them against a checklist and drafting a summary, rather than answering a single prompt.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Agents are the main direction legal AI vendors moved in 2025 and 2026. They can save more time than single prompts, but they also make more decisions without a person watching each step, so review points, audit trails and clear limits on what the agent can do matter more.

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Related Terms

Generative AI
AI that produces new text, images or code from a prompt. In legal work it drafts, summarizes, translates and answers questions over documents.
Workflow automation
Automating the steps of a process, such as routing a request, collecting approvals or sending reminders, so they happen without manual chasing.
Human in the loop
A process where a person reviews and approves AI output at defined points before it is relied on or sent anywhere.

General information, not legal advice. Part of the Legal Tech Glossary, 173 terms in plain English.