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DLA Piper

Document Processing · Enterprise Knowledge Search

As one of the world’s largest and leading law firms, DLA Piper has consistently demonstrated a commitment to embracing technology to strengthen legal services and streamline operations with a goal of providing the best service to its clients.

From an administrative and operational perspective, “some of our early experiments showed Copilot could save up to 36 hours per week in content generation and data analysis,” says Gastwirth.
Microsoft 365 Copilot boosted productivity for operational and administrative teams, saving up to 36 hours weekly on content generation and data analysis.
Some of our early experiments showed Copilot could save up to 36 hours per week in content generation and data analysis.
Up to 90% efficiency boost in content generation

Reported impact

Business outcome

Up to 90% efficiency boost in content generation

  • Compliance
  • Cost Reduction
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement

Solution

DLA Piper built this solution on Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Teams. As one of the world’s largest and leading law firms, DLA Piper has consistently demonstrated a commitment to embracing technology to strengthen legal services and streamline operations with a goal of providing the best service to its clients. Microsoft 365 Copilot assists employees with drafting, summarization, and information retrieval inside daily work tools. Microsoft Teams presents collaboration workflows and shared communication experiences to end users. DLA Piper chose Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI-powered tool that works with Microsoft 365 applications, to streamline document creation, optimize workflows, enhance productivity, and automate routine tasks, all while maint Microsoft 365 Copilot boosted productivity for operational and administrative teams, saving up to 36 hours weekly on content generation and data analysis.

Data flow

Documents, meetings, and collaboration context remain in Microsoft 365 while Copilot generates grounded drafts, summaries, and answers directly inside daily employee workflows.

Solution architecture

2 components · 1 layer
  1. Serving
    • Microsoft 365 Copilot Assists employees with drafting, summarization, and information retrieval inside daily work tools.
    • Microsoft Teams Presents collaboration workflows and shared communication experiences to end users.

Architecture clues

  • The implementation relies on Microsoft 365 Copilot as a core technical building block.

Evidence from the source

As one of the world’s largest and leading law firms, DLA Piper has consistently demonstrated a commitment to embracing technology to strengthen legal services and streamline operations with a goal of providing the best s
DLA Piper chose Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI-powered tool that works with Microsoft 365 applications, to streamline document creation, optimize workflows, enhance productivity, and automate routine tasks, all while maint
From an administrative and operational perspective, “some of our early experiments showed Copilot could save up to 36 hours per week in content generation and data analysis,” says Gastwirth.
Microsoft 365 Copilot boosted productivity for operational and administrative teams, saving up to 36 hours weekly on content generation and data analysis.
Up to 90% efficiency boost in content generation
Transparency Evidence & methodology 82/100 reference value · 87% confidence · 1 source

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value82/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity12/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact25/25
    4 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale5/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence87%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • Claim traceability21/25
    10 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency8/10
    1 source reference document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    DLA Piper customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/19584-dla-piper-microsoft-365-copilot
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Nov 11, 2024
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Nov 11, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region, Company size. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.