2024/12/15 by William Watson, Watson, William, Nicole Cho +17 · 3 citations
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Artificial Intelligence in Law #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #European and International Contract Law #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems #Software Engineering (cs.SE)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.11063
openalex publication_date 2024/12/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Legal contracts in the custody and fund services domain govern critical aspects such as key provider responsibilities, fee schedules, and indemnification rights. However, it is challenging for an off-the-shelf Large Language Model (LLM) to ingest these contracts due to the lengthy unstructured streams of text, limited LLM context windows, and complex legal jargon. To address these challenges, we introduce LAW (Legal Agentic Workflows for Custody and Fund Services Contracts). LAW features a modular design that responds to user queries by orchestrating a suite of domain-specific tools and text agents. Our experiments demonstrate that LAW, by integrating multiple specialized agents and tools, significantly outperforms the baseline. LAW excels particularly in complex tasks such as calculating a contract's termination date, surpassing the baseline by 92.9% points. Furthermore, LAW offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional fine-tuned legal LLMs by leveraging reusable, domain-specific tools.