LegalForce (リーガルフォース) AI Contract Review Platform

Auto review is the core of the product. Upload a contract and the AI highlights clauses that carry risk, marks missing provisions, and attaches a recommended response with sample wording. It works as a contract redlining tool as well as a checker: every flag comes with replacement wording you can drop into the draft. Coverage spans more than 70 contract types when you count Japanese and English documents, and the checkpoints are updated when laws change. Each flagged item carries a severity level, and administrators can adjust those levels so the output matches your own risk policy.

Standard playbooks cover common risks. Custom auto review lets a team register its own review points, preferred positions, and fallback language, then apply them during every review. The feature is in open beta, and it depends on someone doing the upfront work of writing down your standards. Once that's done, junior staff get the same guidance a senior lawyer would give.

The comparison view takes a signed or previously reviewed contract as the baseline and shows what changed in the new draft. It works clause by clause or across the whole document, which is useful when a counterparty returns a marked-up version with edits buried in the middle. Results can be exported to Excel as a before-and-after table, a format many Japanese legal teams still use for internal approvals.

Every uploaded contract is indexed at clause level. Type a keyword and the search returns the specific clause, not a whole document you then have to read. The same search reaches your company templates and the built-in library of more than 2,000 attorney-reviewed forms, including shareholder minutes and internal rules. English contracts can be searched from Japanese keywords, which saves a translation step during research.

Most legal teams live in Word, so the add-in puts review and clause search inside the document. Edits sync back to LegalForce automatically. Separate checkers catch the errors that plague Japanese contracts: article numbering that shifts after an edit, defined terms used before they're defined, inconsistent use of kanji and hiragana, and mixed party labels. These sound small until you ship a contract with a broken cross-reference.

A dedicated email address pulls review requests and legal questions into a single queue. Each matter gets an owner, a status, a due date, and labels for requesting department, counterparty, and contract type. Teams can reply to email inside the platform, and comment notifications reach Microsoft Teams. Managers see workload across the team, and the data exports to CSV for reporting.

English review is sold as an option and covers 12 contract types, mostly under New York law. The translation module displays a Japanese version next to the English text and exports a clause-level bilingual table. Both features are aimed at Japanese teams receiving English drafts, not at US buyers who want a US-first tool.