White Summers Partners with August to Accelerate Corporate Legal Work
We're excited to announce that White Summers Caffee & James LLP, a boutique corporate law firm with offices in Silicon Valley and the Pacific Northwest, has selected August as their AI platform for legal work.
White Summers empowers visionaries and innovators to turn bold ideas into meaningful impact with responsive and tailored counsel. The firm needed a solution that could handle the full spectrum of their practice.
From evaluation to adoption
The decision to partner with August followed evaluation of multiple AI platforms over several weeks. The firm tested August's capabilities across document analysis, contract review, and drafting workflows before moving forward.
White Summers is deploying August across their firm, enabling all of their attorneys and staff to accelerate M&A diligence, streamline contract review, and analyze governance documents. The firm handles routine corporate law work, M&A transactions, venture financings, and day-to-day corporate matters for a variety of large and small businesses—often with international scope.
The team was particularly drawn to August's ability to:
Control exactly what documents and sources the AI reviews
Get cited, verifiable answers rather than generic responses
Use the platform across different practice areas without switching tools
Delivering immediate value
Within the first week, the team was using August on active client matters.
White Summers created custom playbooks for NDA review, enabling rapid analysis of dozens of agreements for a client hiring in-house counsel. Partners used Tabular Review to extract assignment provisions, corporate consents, and governing law across investment agreements, work that would typically require hours of manual document review. The team also adopted August for refining client communications and generating cover summaries for draft agreements.
Why August works for law firms
White Summers' experience highlights what makes August different:
Purpose-built for legal work: Unlike general AI tools that search the entire internet by default, August keeps web search off unless you turn it on. This means the AI focuses on your documents and precedents—not random internet content.
Document control: The team uploads specific agreements, governance documents, and precedents, then asks August to analyze only those sources. This prevents hallucinations and ensures answers come from validated materials.
Verification built in: Every answer includes citations back to specific passages in the source documents, making it easy to verify the AI's work.
White Summers is exploring August's Microsoft Word integration, which will let them modify precedents and apply changes directly in their working documents. The firm's approach: starting with specific pain points like NDA review and document comparison, then expanding to broader use cases, reflects how firms successfully adopt AI. By focusing on concrete workflows rather than abstract capabilities, they're already seeing value.
If your firm handles M&A, corporate governance, or venture work and wants to see how August could fit your practice, we'd be happy to show you what we’re building.