Senior associates and fee-earners
The first draft, with the authorities already checked.
It works inside the matter so you are not re-uploading documents, returns a deliverable rather than a transcript, and checks the authorities before you read them.
Contract Agent Completed
Senior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Calder & Finch LLP · Employment · CF-2026-0184
Summary
Overall risk is HIGH. The UK/Ireland/EU non-compete is likely unenforceable, while the holiday carry-over cap and blanket data/monitoring consent require replacement; the remaining covenants, working-time opt-out and bonus clause should be narrowed and clarified.
- 1. Clause 9(c), non-compete: High: the 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU is wider than reasonably necessary.§ Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32
- 2. Clause 11, data and monitoring: High: blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing or unrestricted monitoring.§ UK GDPR
A run as a memo: summary, files read, action items, authorities and a Word download.
The day this changes
Before
You are the person the partner asks on a Thursday afternoon, and the person who has to say, on Friday morning, where the case came from.
You tried a general assistant. It was fluent and fast, and at some point it cited a case you could not find.
After that you stopped trusting it for anything that mattered, which meant you stopped using it for anything that mattered.
After
It works inside the matter, so you are not re-uploading documents to explain the background before you can ask the question.
It returns a deliverable, a memo with a summary, action items and a Word download, not a chat transcript you have to rewrite.
It checks the authorities before you read them, so the awkward Friday-morning conversation never happens.
Grounded on the matter
Open the matter once and the background is in place: the documents, the client, the conflict check that ran on open. When the partner asks on Thursday, you ask the question against the file rather than re-uploading it, and the agent quotes the clause or the fact from the document in the matter. Every run and chat attaches to the client, so your work has a home rather than scattering across tabs.
See how matters workClient
Calder & Finch LLP
Reference
CF-2026-0184
Practice area
Employment
Jurisdiction
England and Wales
Responsible partner
R. Okafor
Status
Open
Conflict check on open: clear across 214 matters searched.
Clear- Matter opened: conflict check run automatically.
- Documents added: employment contract, board minutes.
- Contract Agent run completed: 6 action items, 14 authorities.
The matter you work inside, with the conflict check on open.
A deliverable, not a chat
Run the Research, Contract or Drafting Agent and what comes back is a memo: a summary, the files it read, action items to confirm, an authorities tab and a Word download. Set Prepare for and shape the same run for the partner, the client or the court. You hand up a document to check and sign, not a chat thread the partner has to read to work out what you found.
See the agentsContract Agent Completed
Senior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Calder & Finch LLP · Employment · CF-2026-0184
Summary
Overall risk is HIGH. The UK/Ireland/EU non-compete is likely unenforceable, while the holiday carry-over cap and blanket data/monitoring consent require replacement; the remaining covenants, working-time opt-out and bonus clause should be narrowed and clarified.
- 1. Clause 9(c), non-compete: High: the 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU is wider than reasonably necessary.§ Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32
- 2. Clause 11, data and monitoring: High: blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing or unrestricted monitoring.§ UK GDPR
A memo with a summary, action items and a Word download.
Verified, then shareable
Every authority is fetched from a closed list of free primary sources and marked verified, needs a check, or not found, with a Where we looked panel. Your check starts from a marked list rather than a blank page, so the case that does not exist is caught before you rely on it. Share the memo up or out through a passcode link with every view logged on the matter.
See how verification works| Authority | Where | Source | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employment Rights Act 1996, s.1 | Statutory particulars | legislation.gov.uk | Verified |
| Working Time Regulations 1998, regs 13 and 13A | Clause 4 | legislation.gov.uk | Verified |
| Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 | Clause 9(c) | supremecourt.uk | Verified |
| Herbert Morris Ltd v Saxelby [1916] AC 688 | Clause 9(a) | N/A | Not found |
| ICO: monitoring workers guidance | Clause 11 | ico.org.uk | Needs a check |
| Equality Act 2010, s.39 | Clause 12 | legislation.gov.uk | Needs a check |
The authorities behind a run, each with its verdict.
A single agent run over one document costs about 118 credits, about £1.18. The figure is observed on the matter, not a saving claim.
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I will check every citation anyway.
So the product does it first. Each authority arrives verified, needs a check, or not found, so your check starts from a marked list, not a blank page.
See how verification worksWe already have Copilot.
A general assistant answers from the open web and will cite a case that does not exist. This works from a closed list of primary law and marks each authority verified, needs a check, or not found.
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