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For anti-money laundering (AML) teams, pressure rarely comes from a single direction. Alert volumes continue to climb, sanctions regimes evolve constantly, and regulators expect faster, better-documented decisions — even as compliance teams are asked to do more with the same resources.

On a Monday morning, the shared inbox at a 12-person legal department holds 41 open requests. Nine of them ask whether a supplier’s standard terms are acceptable. Six ask for a nondisclosure agreement. Four ask about a clause the team answered last quarter, and twice the quarter before. The last two involve questions nobody on…

Palo Alto-based law firm Cooley built a platform that intends to help startups make legal decisions without a lawyer. Users can ask it to analyze nondisclosure and contractor agreements, locate proper business forms, and ask legal questions about company documents. Built with legal AI startup Legora…