Partner Spotlight: Heidrick & Struggles

As a global leader in executive search and leadership consulting, Heidrick & Struggles helps top organizations build high-performing teams. But behind the scenes, their lean yet mighty legal team faced a growing challenge: navigating contract reviews on a global scale without sacrificing quality, so they turned to AI to work smarter.
By integrating AI solutions, they streamlined their contract review process, freeing legal talent for higher-value work, and strengthening their role as a true business partner. Now, their legal function operates with greater efficiency, consistency and strategic impact.
We spoke with Alexis Greasley, Assistant General Counsel, to learn how Robin AI impacted their legal function.
At Heidrick & Struggles, every team is built for excellence, and their legal team is no exception. But with just 7 lawyers supporting the commercial side of the business globally they needed to find ways to maximise efficiency.
Two Key Challenges:
They needed a smarter way to operate.
They took a forward-thinking approach with Robin AI’s Managed Services — a service that combined expert legal professionals with cutting-edge AI to streamline contract workflows. Robin AI handled:
The creation of custom playbooks for each type of agreement led to an aligned negotiation framework that enhanced consistency and efficiency.
Robin AI helped to streamline Heidrick & Struggles' contract review process — reducing workload, ensuring high accuracy and delivering value.
The median turnaround time for Robin managed services on Heidrick & Struggles documents is 5 hours and 12 minutes.
More Strategic Business Involvement: “The expectation on in-house lawyers is so much more than just being in the legal lane. It’s being a commercial, strategic business partner.”
Enhanced Talent Retention: “Contract reviews can be repetitive, and having a tool that redlines the fundamentals and enables our lawyers to focus more on higher risk and value work is better for everyone. We want to give our people the ability to have time to do more and learn more.”
For legal teams considering AI, Heidrick & Struggles’ Alexis Greasley offers these key takeaways:
By harnessing the power of artificial intelligence, the team delivers efficient and consistent contract reviews whilst freeing up valuable time to collaborate more closely with internal stakeholders on other strategic projects.