Confirm a standard point of practice
Scenario: You're an associate drafting a senior employment contract and need to confirm a standard point of practice without reading every relevant precedent contract.
What you can do: Ask a question limited to maintained England and Wales knowhow and receive a synthesized answer with citations to the source documents.
Why it's useful: You get a prompt answer grounded in maintained internal knowhow and can keep the draft moving without relying on a web search.
Example request: What is a typical notice period for a senior information technology director under an English-law employment contract, according to our maintained knowhow?
Tools used:
get_jurisdictions,ask_knowledge_question,get_practice_areas
Compare legal duties across jurisdictions
Scenario: You're a practice support lawyer (PSL) answering a cross-border query about director duties in England, Singapore, and Australia. You need a separate answer for each jurisdiction so that content from one jurisdiction doesn't affect another.
What you can do: Confirm the available jurisdictions, then ask three independently filtered questions using maintained knowhow for one jurisdiction at a time.
Why it's useful: You produce clearly separated, jurisdiction-specific answers for a cross-border client query.
Example request: Summarize director duties concerning conflicts of interest in England, Singapore, and Australia, using only our maintained knowhow and answering separately for each jurisdiction.
Tools used:
get_jurisdictions,ask_knowledge_question,get_practice_areas,get_offices
Find current guidance for a client briefing
Scenario: You're a junior lawyer preparing a client briefing on UK data-breach notification obligations. You need current guidance that the organization actively maintains.
What you can do: Search for maintained guidance notes limited to the UK and review a focused list before drafting the briefing.
Why it's useful: You avoid relying on superseded guidance that a partner would need to correct at the last minute.
Example request: Find current, maintained guidance notes on UK data-breach notification obligations.
Tools used:
get_knowledge_types,search_knowledge_documents,get_jurisdictions
Align a client alert with previous organization positions
Scenario: You're an associate drafting your first client alert. You need to understand what the organization has already published on the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act so that your draft follows established positions.
What you can do: Search previous alerts and guidance, arrange the results chronologically, and synthesize the position taken across the maintained knowhow.
Why it's useful: You avoid contradicting an existing published position and can reuse established framing where appropriate.
Example request: Show me the previous positions published by our organization on the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act and summarize our house view from maintained knowhow.
Tools used:
search_knowledge_documents,ask_knowledge_question