Automating UCC Document Extraction and Classification
Mid-size Florida Law Firm
Paralegals spent 20+ hours per week manually extracting, reviewing, and classifying hundreds of UCC filings from a state database. Error rates were climbing as volume increased, and substantive legal work was being displaced by data entry.
The Solution
Built an end-to-end automated pipeline using Python for data extraction, Claude AI (Sonnet for initial classification, Opus for complex edge cases), and a custom web interface for paralegal review -- all deployed within the firm's existing Azure infrastructure.
Key Results
classification accuracy on standard filings
per-filing processing time, down from 12 minutes
compliance incidents in first 3 months
6 weeks
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