With over 5000 lawyers signed up ahead of launch, VakilPlus is building an AI-powered platform for legal drafting, contract review and redlining, aimed at independent advocates and law firms across India.
New Delhi [India], October 17: Artificial intelligence is finding its way into some of India’s biggest law firms. Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas has adopted tools such as Harvey and Lucio, Trilegal has partnered with Lucio, and Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is among the firms working with Harvey.
The market is growing too. According to Grand View Research, India’s legal AI market was valued at approximately $29.5 million in 2024 and is expected to reach $106.3 million by 2030.
While large law firms are investing in specialised legal AI platforms, many independent lawyers and smaller firms still depend on general-purpose AI tools for drafting, research and document review. These tools are not always built for legal work. Incorrect formatting, unreliable citations and AI-generated errors can make their outputs difficult to trust without extensive checking.
That is the gap VakilPlus wants to address.
The new AI-powered legal platform with an India first outlook is being developed to make drafting, reviewing and redlining documents easier for lawyers, whether they work independently, in a small chamber or as part of a larger firm.
Taking the effort out of drafting and redlining
Anyone who has worked on a commercial agreement knows that writing the first draft is only the beginning.
A client asks for changes. The other party sends back a revised version. A clause needs to be rewritten, another needs to be negotiated, and the document goes through yet another round of review.
Lawyers can spend hours working through these changes, particularly when dealing with multiple agreements at the same time.
VakilPlus is being built by HouseofTech to help with this part of legal work.
The platform aims to assist lawyers in preparing drafts, reviewing contracts, identifying clauses that need attention and suggesting alternative wording. It also supports legal research, allowing lawyers to look up relevant laws and judgments when needed.
The emphasis is on drafting and redlining, where a considerable amount of work goes into preparing documents, checking changes and refining language.
The lawyer still makes the decisions. VakilPlus is intended to make the process of getting to those decisions less time-consuming.
5000 lawyers have already signed up
Even before its official launch, VakilPlus has received more than 5000 sign-ups from lawyers.
The early response is encouraging for a product entering a market where legal AI is still finding its place in everyday practice.
“A lot of our time goes into drafting agreements, reviewing clauses and making changes to documents. We have started experimenting with AI tools, but the problem is that most of them are not built for Indian legal practice. You still have to spend considerable time checking the format, verifying references and correcting errors. A tool designed specifically for lawyers could make a real difference to how we work,” said Advocate Hemant Jain.
For a solo practitioner, reviewing a lengthy agreement may mean working through every clause personally. A small firm might have only a handful of associates handling multiple matters. Corporate legal teams have their own challenges, with contracts arriving regularly from vendors, customers and business partners.
All of them could benefit from tools that reduce the time spent preparing and reviewing documents.
VakilPlus is looking to make those tools accessible to a much wider group of legal professionals, rather than limiting them to firms with large technology budgets.
A different kind of support for lawyers
There is also a practical limit to what AI should do in legal work.
A contract is not simply a collection of clauses. The wording can affect a client’s rights, liabilities and commercial interests. A suggested change may look reasonable but still be unsuitable for a particular transaction.
Lawyers need to make those calls themselves.
VakilPlus is being developed with that in mind. AI can assist with drafts, suggest edits and help review documents, but the final responsibility remains with the legal professional.
As more Indian law firms begin using AI, the question is no longer whether the technology has a place in legal practice. It is how widely that technology can be made available, and whether it solves problems lawyers face every day.
For VakilPlus, the starting point is a familiar one: the hours spent between receiving a document and getting it ready for signature.
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