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What Is Clause Extraction?

Using AI to find specific clauses and data points in contracts, such as governing law, renewal dates and liability caps, and turn them into structured fields.

Legal Tech GlossaryBy The Circle Desk

Why It Matters

Clause extraction is how legal teams turn a pile of signed PDFs into a searchable contract database. Accuracy varies by clause type and document quality, so most teams spot-check extracted data before relying on it for renewals or audits.

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Related Terms

Contract analytics
Analysis of a body of contracts to answer questions such as which agreements allow assignment, where liability is uncapped or how terms vary by region.
NLP (natural language processing)
The field of computing that deals with understanding and producing human language, from finding names and dates in a contract to answering questions.
Contract repository
A central, searchable store of an organization's signed contracts and their key data, such as parties, dates, values and renewal terms.

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