LOD and Wordsmith team up to tackle increasing in‑house legal work volumes

Lawyers On Demand (LOD), a Consilio Company, announced a new partnership with Wordsmith to deliver AI-enabled managed services to in-house legal teams.

By combining LOD’s expert professionals, governance, and day-to-day management of legal work with Wordsmith’s AI-native workflow platform, in-house teams using the service will be able to better-handle ever-increasing work volumes without adding to headcount or losing control.

While AI can automate meaningful portions of legal work, many teams struggle to implement and manage technology in a way that fits their existing workflows and risk tolerance. LOD’s partnership with Wordsmith is designed to make AI usable in practice by embedding it at scale within a managed delivery model, so it works inside how teams already operate rather than sitting apart from it.

As part of the offering, Consilio provides technology advisory, implementation support, and ongoing refinement, helping clients configure Wordsmith effectively and evolve usage over time based on real‑world experience. Feedback from live deployments will also inform how Wordsmith continues to improve its platform for enterprise use.

Following a three-month pilot across multiple teams and legal workflows, the service demonstrated measurable improvements in efficiency, turnaround times and overall contract-handling capacity. The pilot reinforced the value of combining experienced legal professionals with AI-enabled delivery to help in-house teams scale support more effectively while maintaining oversight, consistency and quality.

“Our clients want results, not ‘AI for AI’s sake,’” said Patty Wise, US managing director of Lawyers On Demand. “By delivering legal managed services enhanced by Wordsmith, we help legal departments use AI in a way that is practical, governed, and reliable,” added Nigel Rea (in photograph), managing director of global clients at Lawyers On Demand.

“Legal AI needs to work inside real operating models,” said Ross McNairn, CEO of Wordsmith. “Partnering with Lawyers On Demand and Consilio allows Wordsmith to be deployed as part of a managed service, while benefiting from deep delivery and technology expertise.”

LOD and Wordsmith’s combined managed services offering is available to in-house legal teams globally.