Suhas Baliga is a corporate lawyer and partner at Managed Counsel. He writes about how AI changes legal work, including the risks of answering questions from isolated contract fragments.[1]
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Managed Counsel lists Baliga as a partner with a focus on law-firm leadership, corporate finance and transactions, and high-growth companies. Its team page also links Axara AI, the Future of the Law newsletter and Baliga’s book The Last Pyramid.[2]
Ideas
Baliga argues that retrieving isolated contract fragments can miss exceptions and cross-references. His proposed alternative reads each document in full, builds a structured index of its clauses and obligations, then uses that index to choose relevant documents. Separate passes extract evidence from each chosen document before a final synthesis compares the findings and identifies contradictions. The aim is to preserve document relationships that similarity-based fragment selection can lose. The essay presents his proposed workflow, rather than a controlled comparison of retrieval systems.[3]
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Legal AI Analysisx.comAn explanation of how fragment-based retrieval can omit contract dependencies and exceptions.
Follow the example of a contract clause whose meaning depends on an exception elsewhere. No machine-learning background is required; familiarity with a multi-document agreement helps assess the problem the essay describes.
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