How Meridian Legal Reduced NDA Turnaround from 4 Days to 6 Hours
A 22-person commercial law firm was taking 4 days to turn around every NDA. Praxa brought that down to 6 hours. Here is exactly how it happened.
The Situation
Meridian Legal is a 22-person commercial law firm with a high-volume NDA practice. At peak periods, the team was processing upwards of 40 NDAs per week across a mix of inbound and outbound agreements. Each required a first-pass review, a round of markup, and a partner sign-off before it could go back to the client.
Average turnaround from receipt to redlined draft: 4 working days. Clients were pushing for faster. The team had no obvious way to compress the timeline without adding resource.
The Approach
Meridian deployed Praxa and uploaded their standard NDA positions: confidentiality scope, term length, exclusions, remedies, and governing law. The system was calibrated against 60 executed NDAs from their existing library to learn the firm's preferred language and fallback positions.
From week two, every incoming NDA was processed through Praxa before it reached an associate. The associate received a flagged document with deviations marked, risk levels assigned, and suggested redlines pre-populated based on the firm's playbook.
The Outcome
Average NDA turnaround dropped from 4 days to 6 hours within the first month. Associates reported that the time spent on each agreement fell from roughly 90 minutes to under 20. The quality of first-draft redlines improved, with fewer partner revision cycles required before client delivery.
Meridian also identified a secondary benefit: consistency. Before Praxa, associate redlines varied depending on who handled the matter. After deployment, the firm's standard positions were applied uniformly across every agreement regardless of who processed it.
What Made It Work
The speed of the outcome was directly tied to the quality of the playbook upload. Meridian's managing partner spent two days before deployment defining their exact positions on the 12 most common NDA issues. That upfront investment shaped every subsequent review.
The lesson: the system is only as good as the standards you give it. Firms that take the calibration phase seriously see results faster.
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