Legal Automation Platform of the Year for Tees-based AI firm
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Diamond delight – Automate Legal cofounders Alli and Rob Boville. The firm’ s sister company, BearTech, won the Best New Business crown at the recent Tees Businesswomen Awards.
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Legal Automation Platform of the Year for Tees-based AI firm
Automate Legal, the Teessideheadquartered innovator behind the AI-powered Jurana platform, has been named winner of the Diamond Distinction Award 2025 for Legal Automation Platform of the Year.
The legal profession has long grappled with a fundamental tension: the need to deliver thorough, precise work within increasingly compressed timeframes while managing escalating caseloads and client expectations.
Automate Legal addresses this challenge through Jurana, its flagship AI platform that streamlines cost drafting and case preparation – not through shortcuts, but through intelligent automation that enhances accuracy, transparency and professional control.
Law firms today face a familiar paradox as case complexity continues to increase, regulatory requirements multiply and clients demand faster turnaround times, yet the fundamental processes for cost drafting, case analysis and compliance management remain largely manual.
Before automation, case-processing often took anywhere from days to months – creating capacity constraints that restricted growth, inflated costs and left firms at a competitive disadvantage.
Traditional case-management systems provide organisational infrastructure but lack decision-making intelligence, leaving the cognitive and administrative burden squarely with fee-earners and cost professionals.
Jurana represents a departure from conventional legal technology. Rather than adapting general-purpose AI tools for legal applications, the platform was designed specifically for the demands of legal practice.
Jurana integrates bespoke AI workloads and secure, jurisdictionally controlled
infrastructure, combining automation, compliance validation and contextual understanding of legal documentation – engineered specifically for legal professionals.
The platform understands procedural rules, court formatting requirements and client-specific policies. It identifies compliance considerations and generates work products that have been checked against procedural requirements before submission.
Jurana doesn’ t replace legal judgment; it augments it, handling the mechanical aspects of cost drafting and case preparation while preserving practitioner oversight on substantive matters.
With more than eight years of AI experience in legal contexts, the team ensures Jurana meets the profession’ s precision and compliance demands. This is automation that enhances professional expertise rather than replacing it.
At Jurana’ s core is CostDraft – the flagship module purpose-built for cost professionals and litigation teams. CostDraft automates the generation and review of bills of costs, points of dispute and supporting documentation across multiple case types including Legal Aid, Court of Protection and inter partes matters.
The module has been designed to support Solicitors Regulation Authority compliance while improving efficiency, allowing cost professionals to focus on strategy and substantive assessment rather than manual data entry.
Each output is checked against procedural requirements before submission, maintaining high professional standards while accelerating delivery timelines.
Security and compliance form the foundation of Jurana’ s design. The platform is hosted exclusively in Microsoft Azure’ s UK data centres, ensuring that client data never leaves UK jurisdiction.
Automate Legal does not use public or consumer AI systems, and the platform is fully compliant with UK GDPR, ISO 27001 and emerging AI governance standards.
The firm operates within a broader technology ecosystem supported by BearTech( BearTech Dev), an awardwinning AI and software consultancy with a track record of delivering complex automation projects across multiple regulated sectors.
This relationship provides the underlying AI engineering and infrastructure that enable Jurana’ s continued development.
The platform has secured early-stage contracts and licensing agreements with leading law firms, reflecting growing industry interest in AI-driven legal automation that delivers measurable value while maintaining professional standards.
Automate Legal earned this recognition through its focus on practical, verifiable innovation. Jurana enables solicitors and costs professionals to streamline cost drafting and case preparation and maintain oversight and compliance.
Its design reflects a deep understanding of procedural requirements, secure data management and the realities of modern legal practice.
The Diamond Distinction Award 2025 recognises this balance between efficiency, accountability and regulatory assurance – proving that automation can enhance professional expertise, maintain compliance and deliver commercial value.
Automate Legal represents an evolution in how technology supports legal professionals – combining security, compliance and intelligent automation to meet the sector’ s operational needs.
Find out more at: automate. legal
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