Legal work depends on documents, but finding, understanding, and acting on the right information can be time-consuming. Contracts, case files, matter histories, correspondence, policies, and research distributed across folders and systems make it difficult to bring the full context of a matter together.
Today OpenAI is introducing new offerings for law firms and the legal technology ecosystem, and Box is proud to contribute as a plugin partner and provider of legal skills. Together, Box and OpenAI are combining OpenAI’s intelligence with Box’s governed content foundation and legal expertise to help legal professionals turn enterprise content into practical, secure workflows.
Putting legal expertise to work with Box skills
The Box plugin includes skills designed around some of the most time-intensive workflows in legal work. Each combines ChatGPT’s reasoning capabilities with Box’s governed content, permissions, and collaboration controls.
- Virtual data room creation and management: Legal teams can use ChatGPT to create a secure data-room structure in Box, populate it with relevant files, and assign roles and permissions. The workflow can also support collaboration with outside counsel through controlled access and upload-only links — helping reduce setup time and permissioning errors.
- Client intake and onboarding: ChatGPT can review incoming client materials in a Box intake folder, check submissions for completeness, and perform preliminary risk assessments. Once the intake is approved, it can trigger the generation of an engagement letter, store it in Box, and share it through a secure workspace.
- Contract review and compliance: ChatGPT can scan executed agreements, identify deviations from firm templates, and assess potential risks as High, Medium, or Low. Results can be written back to Box metadata, creating a searchable view of contract risk without manual spreadsheet tracking.
Together, these skills help legal teams move their AI usage beyond document Q&A to supporting multi-step workflows that continue in Box, where content remains organized, governed, and managed.
Expanding the Box plugin with new legal skills
Box is also exploring additional skills for corporate legal departments and law firms.
- Outside counsel guideline management: Legal teams can use Box as their governed source for client-specific guidelines covering billing, staffing, security, data handling, AI usage, matter management, and reporting. ChatGPT can locate the applicable guideline, summarize key obligations, compare requirements, and surface relevant guidance in the context of a matter.
These skills turn Box’s legal subject-matter expertise into reusable workflows, helping legal professionals get more value from the content that’s already at the center of their work.
The governed content foundation for legal AI
Legal teams need AI that can work with sensitive enterprise content without weakening the controls around that content. Box provides that secure foundation.
Organizations can continue organizing, managing, and governing content in Box while using AI to analyze documents, surface relevant information, and support legal workflows. Existing Box permissions remain central, so users can work only with content they’re authorized to access.
That’s the value of Box as the file system for AI: enterprise content can be connected to whatever applications, models, and agents that legal teams choose, while Box remains the place where that content is organized, governed, and managed.
What this means for customers
The value of these experiences isn’t simply answering questions about documents; it’s helping lawyers turn Box content into meaningful legal work.
A transaction team can use Box to organize relevant files, manage permissions, and collaborate securely with outside counsel. AI can then analyze that content to extract key information and prepare a structured summary for review. A legal department can compare agreements stored in Box against internal requirements, surface material deviations, and write risk assessments back to Box metadata for ongoing visibility.
Where OpenAI provides the intelligence to reason across complex legal work, Box provides the governed content foundation where that work begins, continues, and is managed.
Building the future of legal work
Together, Box and OpenAI are helping legal professionals do more with the information that’s already at the center of their work. You can get started connecting ChatGPT to Box here.
