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title: "Conflict checks at Morrison & Associates"
description: "A composite 8-attorney litigation firm with a 2.5-hour manual conflict check. The math an automated check would have to hit: 25 minutes, $500,000 in recovered engagements."
doc_version: "2026-05-20"
last_updated: "2025-01-15T13:00:00.000Z"
canonical_url: https://www.lightforgeworks.com/blog/morrison-associates-case-study/
---

# Conflict checks at Morrison & Associates

# Conflict checks at Morrison & Associates

Morrison & Associates is a composite company: an 8-attorney business litigation firm at $4.2M revenue. The workflow and the failure points are real patterns; the company and the numbers are illustrative.

## The problem

A conflict check takes 2.5 hours. An associate searches the email archive, the document repository, and the client database by hand, then writes up what they found. Prospects wait days for clearance, and some hire another firm instead. A missed conflict is a malpractice exposure, not just an embarrassment.

## The build

An automated conflict check. It reads the same sources: email, documents, the client database, billing. It matches names and entities, maps the relationships between parties, and hands the attorney a report in about 30 seconds. The attorney reads the flagged relationships and makes the call. Ten weeks to build. The firm's staff spends about ten hours on it.

## The numbers it would have to hit

- Check time: 2.5 hours down to 25 minutes, with the machine pass done in 30 seconds
- Same-day answers to prospects, instead of days
- Engagements the firm stops losing: about $500,000 a year, 12 percent of revenue
- Attorney hours returned to billable work: about 450 a year

**[Read the full case study →](/blog/morrison-associates-case-study-full)**

## Interactive Demo

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  <iframe src="/static/demos/morrison-associates/morrison-associates-demo.html" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0" style="border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);"></iframe>
  <p style="text-align: center; margin-top: 10px; font-style: italic; color: #666;">Interactive demonstration of a conflict check system approach</p>
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