How Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Cuts Litigation Prep Time 10x with UiPath

Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney is one of the larger full-service U.S. law firms, operating 18 offices with roughly 480 attorneys and government relations professionals. In single-plaintiff litigation—a high-volume, fee-sensitive practice area—cases routinely involve up to 100 distinct micro-tasks, many of them document-centric and heavily manual. With cases priced on fixed fees, the margin between efficiency and profitability is thin, and inconsistency at any stage translates directly to write-downs.

Before automation, junior attorneys reviewed complaints and produced initial response documents by hand, a process prone to inconsistent outputs and formatting errors across jurisdictions. Senior attorneys spent considerable time reviewing and reworking those drafts before they could advance. The volume of repetitive, process-driven steps—intake, allegation extraction, jurisdictional formatting, document assembly—compounded the time burden and made scaling throughput without adding headcount nearly impossible.

Buchanan built a coordinated automation workflow on the UiPath Platform, assembling several product capabilities into a single pipeline. UiPath Autopilot orchestrates the end-to-end process from intake through document generation, while UiPath Robots execute step-by-step tasks across underlying systems. Embedded AI capabilities within the platform interpret complaint text, extract key allegations, and apply established legal logic. UiPath Apps surface review interfaces at critical decision points so attorneys can validate and refine outputs without leaving the workflow. UiPath Data Fabric maintains state continuity across each stage and integrates with the firm’s existing systems.

The workflow now produces a formatted, jurisdiction-ready first draft—structured around standardized content and populated with extracted allegations—with minimal manual intervention. “The first draft is more accurate, and our attorneys can now focus on strategy instead of rework,” said Judy Arrigo, Director of Administrative Solutions at Buchanan. Senior attorneys who previously spent hours on remediation now engage earlier on substance, while the speed improvement has allowed the firm to take on 25% more cases with the same resources.

Buchanan’s approach reflects a broader shift in how law firms treat process-driven legal work: not as inherently manual, but as an automation opportunity where human judgment is reserved for decisions that genuinely require it. By embedding AI and orchestration into the litigation workflow rather than layering tools on top, the firm has built a repeatable, governable system. For a fixed-fee practice area, that translates directly into competitive differentiation—and 2025 recognition as a UiPath AI25 Award winner signals the approach is setting a benchmark.