ILUNION’s José Luis Barceló credits creative legal team —and Copilot 365—with a ‘deep transformation’

The innovation group has the goal of building 15 more agents in the next six months. But they already have created several agents that are saving time and breaking barriers. He cited "Litigator" as one of the key ones.

He said that typically just taking the first steps in a case-getting a general idea of the issues involved, looking at the history of the case and pertinent references, could take 40 minutes to an hour.

"With the Litigator agent, in 40 seconds, you can be informed with the main concepts of the case," he said. "So it's fantastic. For blind people, it's a tool to eliminate barriers. It's a tool of inclusion."

But Litigator is just one of the agents the company's lawyers use.

"We use Copilot agents to automate document classification, for the extraction of information, analysis, traceability and the legal accuracy of our operations," he said.

"There is an increase in regulations on the internet, so we use Copilot to summarize these criteria and to clarify the criteria. We also use Copilot to identify and analyze risk in our commercial operations and contracts."

Other legal departments in Spain have taken notice, he said.

"We are leading here in Spain," he said. "Many, many other legal departments are coming to Ilunion to see how we are using Copilot agents to create assistants that sit beside our lawyers and help them work."

The agents are not a substitute for the lawyers themselves, but they are freeing their team to focus on more critical tasks.

"We can dedicate lawyers to an extra-value job now," he said. "They can be more creative, have more ideas, be more strategic. This increases the importance of each lawyer because they can dedicate time to more important tasks."