Bulk Contract Review

In eBrevia, a field is a specific data point or provision that the system can extract from a contract. Examples include assignment, change of control, renewal language, termination rights, governing law, limitation of liability, and indemnification.

A form is a collection of fields. Teams can create different forms for different review projects, such as M&A due diligence, lease review, employment agreement review, vendor contract review, or customer contract review.

This helps teams focus the review on the information that matters most. For example, a due diligence form may focus on deal-sensitive provisions, while a contract migration form may focus on metadata, dates, parties, renewal terms, and obligations.

eBrevia includes a large library of pre-trained fields, and teams can create custom fields when needed. In the training session, the product team noted that many customers prefer using eBrevia’s existing field library because it helps them avoid building everything from scratch.

Bulk contract review projects often include duplicates, near-duplicates, and documents based on the same template. Reviewing all of them one by one can waste time and make the project harder to manage.

eBrevia helps identify duplicate documents so teams do not review the same file more than once. It also includes Prep View, which groups similar documents together. This helps reviewers understand whether a contract set is mostly template-based or whether each document needs a closer individual review.

For due diligence projects, this can be especially useful. If many agreements are highly similar, a team may be able to review the template and focus more attention on the meaningful differences. If most documents are unique, the team can plan for a more detailed review.

The training session described Prep View as a way for law firms to understand a project before review begins, including whether the document set is simple and template-based or more complex and varied.

eBrevia’s analysis view shows the source contract and the extracted summary together, making it easier for reviewers to validate the AI output.

For example, if eBrevia extracts a change of control clause, the reviewer can click into the relevant contract language and confirm the result. If something should be added, edited, or removed, the reviewer can update the summary.

This creates a practical quality-control workflow. AI helps with the first pass, while legal professionals remain in control of the final review. This aligns with ABA guidance that lawyers using AI should understand its limitations and review AI-generated output for accuracy.

Bulk contract review is not only about finding clauses. It is also about managing the review process.

eBrevia allows teams to track document status across a project, including whether documents are unreviewed, in process, ready for quality control, or complete. This helps project leads understand what has been reviewed, what still needs attention, and who is responsible for each document.

For large projects, this structure is important. It helps teams avoid duplicate work, reduce confusion, and keep the review moving.

eBrevia dashboards help teams see what is happening across a project. Reviewers and project leads can view information such as document status, reviewer progress, document types, tags, applied forms, expiring contracts, and fields found across the document set.

Filters make it easier to narrow a large contract set to the documents that matter. For example, a team could filter for contracts assigned to a specific reviewer, contracts with a certain governing law, documents with auto-renewal language, or contracts that contain a particular clause.

This is useful for due diligence, regulatory reviews, contract audits, renewal analysis, and contract portfolio management.

When teams need to understand how language differs across contracts, eBrevia’s provision comparison can help.

For example, a legal team may want to compare termination language across a group of agreements or check whether provisions differ from a standard template. eBrevia can show differences and help summarize what changed.

This is useful when a reviewer needs to quickly identify whether changes are minor, such as party names and addresses, or more meaningful, such as different notice periods, termination rights, or obligations.

A key goal of bulk contract review is producing a clear final output. eBrevia supports structured exports that help teams turn contract review into usable reports.

In the training session, the final work product was described as an Excel report showing the documents reviewed and the extracted information across those documents. This could include items such as limitation of liability, change of control, assignment, and other key provisions.

These exports can support due diligence reports, internal summaries, contract migration files, compliance reviews, and business-facing analysis.