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"That's where the magic is. That's where I can save a good 10 hours. There's a day saved easily."
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Martin Algie is a solo practitioner with 30 years of legal experience, specializing in contract law for the pharmaceutical industry. For the last 20 years, his practice MIA Contract Lawyers has focused on reviewing and negotiating supply contracts, license agreements, and NDAs for pharmaceutical distributors in Australia who source from manufacturers and brokers worldwide.
Working with contracts from multiple countries and often dealing with poorly drafted templates, Martin found himself working seven days a week just to keep up. Each first-cut contract review was taking 15 hours, an unsustainable pace that needed to change.
Martin evaluated several AI contract review platforms, looking for a legal tech system that could minimize redrafting while maintaining the accuracy his clients required.
What attracted him to Gavel Exec was its promise to address both efficiency and precision. After trialing the platform, Martin was impressed:
"Gavel Exec delivered in spades on that promise, but also addressed the accuracy. It all comes down to how good your rule is, how good the prompt is. Gavel Exec delivered on both of those and did so pretty quickly."
Martin's implementation focused on a two-step workflow that transformed his 15-hour review process. His approach combined Gavel Exec's chat functionality with custom playbooks tailored to his in-licensing contracts.
First, he uses the chat functionality to redraft contracts into proper form. Martin directs Gavel Exec to restructure obligations so it's clear who is obliged to do what, and by when. This initial pass transforms poorly drafted templates into workable documents.
Then he runs his playbooks. Martin built a comprehensive playbook for his in-licensing contracts that now contains close to 80 rules, codifying his legal expertise into automated workflows. Once set up correctly, his paralegal can run these rules and deliver a draft that Martin can then settle.
Gavel Exec has been transformative for Martin's practice. The time savings are dramatic:
"That's where the magic is. That's where I can save a good 10 hours. There's a day saved easily."
His review time has dropped from 15 hours per contract to approximately 5 hours, a 67% reduction that has fundamentally changed his workload and eliminated those seven-day work weeks.
The ability to delegate work to his paralegal has been equally important. With the playbooks properly configured, Martin's support staff can execute the rules and produce settlement-ready drafts, allowing Martin to focus on the substantive legal review and client relationships rather than manual redrafting.
After trying multiple systems over the years, Martin is clear in his assessment:
"It's the best system I've tried, and I've tried many. I've found Gavel Exec really good to work with and responsive to how I negotiate, how I redline."
The efficiency gains from Gavel Exec have done more than just reduce Martin's workload. By saving 10 hours per contract, Martin has opened up real capacity to take on additional clients and grow his practice. What was once a maxed-out schedule working seven days a week has become a sustainable practice with room to breathe.
The time savings translate directly to increased revenue potential. With an extra 10 billable hours recovered per contract review, Martin can either take on more matters or spend that time on higher-value legal work and client development. And because his paralegal can now handle the routine redrafting, the practice can scale without Martin having to work longer hours.
But perhaps what excites Martin most is the time he's reclaimed for his personal passion: literature. After years of seven-day work weeks buried in contract review, he finally has space for the studying and reading that had been pushed aside. His objective was to save one day a week, and Gavel Exec delivered.
The efficiency Martin achieved through Gavel Exec has opened up an entirely new business opportunity. MIA Contract Lawyers is now offering a subscription service specifically to pharmaceutical companies whose business development managers spend all their time reviewing these contracts.
"I can save them that day a week. Simply by offering this service out to them," Martin explains.
This new service leverages the playbooks and workflows Martin has built in Gavel Exec, allowing him to provide consistent, high-quality contract review at scale. It's transformed his practice in two ways: he's saved his own day a week, and he's created a new revenue stream on top of making his practice more efficient.
Martin continues to refine his playbooks and expand his rule sets as he encounters new contract variations and legal issues. The flexibility of Gavel Exec allows him to continuously improve his workflows, making each subsequent contract review even more efficient.
Implementing Gavel Exec has meant reclaiming his time while maintaining the high standards his pharmaceutical clients expect. Working seven days a week "is not good," and Gavel Exec provided the solution MIA Contract Lawyers needed to build a sustainable practice.
Martin's experience demonstrates how the right legal technology can transform even the most demanding contract review practices, delivering both efficiency gains and maintained accuracy while opening up new business opportunities.
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