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Time Savings by Legal Task
Median hours saved per task when a lawyer works with AI versus alone.
MeasuredUpdated 2026-07-08
Time Savings: Human Only vs. Human + AI
Median task completion time in minutes - comparing human-only work with AI-assisted work.
Measured data - pre-processed from HAQQ's real Legal AI Index usage dataset (134,000+ data points across 30 countries) or HAQQ's own /50 cross-model legal benchmark.
Across the 12 measured legal tasks, HAQQ's usage data shows AI-assisted work cutting median completion time by 57-66% versus working alone. The largest gain is in reading and rewriting legal documents, where median time drops from 0.50 to 0.17 hours, a 66% reduction and the steepest of any task tracked. Most other tasks, from compliance monitoring to reviewing regulations, cluster tightly around a 60% reduction, showing the gains are broad-based rather than concentrated in one workflow.
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