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Deal handoff tool for an international law firm

Dentons innovation challenge · Mar 2026

Team project

A prototype for Dentons that helps lawyers in different countries hand cross-border deals to each other without losing context. My part was building out the system.

My part:
Team member, building out the system
Built with:
Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, TypeScript

Dentons is a law firm with offices all over the world. A big cross-border deal moves between countries and time zones, and each handover is a chance for context to get lost.

We built a working prototype in a few days, with a FastAPI backend and a web front end. It scores contract risk, checks compliance against rules for each jurisdiction, suggests which experts in which offices should look at a matter, and writes handoff notes so the next office can pick up where the last one stopped. Every recommendation is logged.

It’s rule-based, with no language model in the loop.

We got no result. The code sits in a teammate’s private repository.

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