BakerHostetler pointed ROSS Intelligence at 27 terabytes of bankruptcy filings and told it to surface citations, retrieve documents, and identify precedent. Attorneys kept one job: deciding what the research meant.
The 60% reduction in research hours didn't come from removing humans. It came from concentrating them at the interpretation layer, where professional judgment is both legally required and genuinely load-bearing. Pattern-matching got automated. The moment where context meets liability stayed human.
That's a checkpoint designed around consequence, not comfort.