RESEARCH STUDY · ASSOCIATE ATTORNEYS
Law school taught you to think like a lawyer. Practicing law shouldn’t mean spending most of your day on logistics that have nothing to do with legal reasoning. Pick the workflow that hurts most — redlining, filings, evidence, reports — and tell us where it actually breaks. We want to hear the reality of legal paperwork from your seat.
WHY WE’RE DOING THIS
Nutrient builds the document infrastructure that legal software runs on, which means we see what breaks but not what it feels like to live inside.
Associates are the missing voice in most research on legal workflows — the partner’s view is well-documented; the person actually doing the redlining is not.
We’re collecting that perspective directly, in associates’ own words, and publishing it as a research report.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Nineteen questions across one workflow you pick — mostly multiple choice, with a few short free text fields if you want to add context.
We ask for your name and work email so we can send you the report. Everything published is aggregated and de-identified.
Every participant gets the complete findings — including data we don’t publish externally — before the report goes public.
WHAT WE’RE ASKING ABOUT
Pick the one legal workflow you’d most want to improve — contracts, filings, reports, evidence — and walk us through where it breaks: the consistency, the volume, the workarounds.
Where billable hours quietly disappear.
Where you’d trust AI in your workflow today, and where you wouldn’t.
What you’d change if anyone asked.
Nutrient (formerly PSPDFKit) — the document SDK and API platform behind document workflows at thousands of companies. We build the document infrastructure legal software runs on, which is exactly why we want a clearer picture of what actually slows associates down. The findings will be published as a research report, not as marketing collateral for a specific product.
Anonymous in reporting, yes. The survey asks for your name and work email so we can send you the report. If you opt in to the follow-up call at the end, you’ll also share your LinkedIn URL. None of these are attributed to you in the published report. Results are aggregated and de-identified, and any quoted free text responses are stripped of identifying details and only used when the pattern shows up across multiple respondents. We don’t share your name, email, LinkedIn, or individual answers with anyone outside the research team.
Less than 10 minutes. There are 19 questions total — mostly multiple choice with a few short free text fields where you can add context if you want to.
Two things. First, early access to the complete research findings — including data points we don’t publish externally — before the report goes public. Second, the option to do a 30-minute follow-up interview at the end of the survey if you want to go deeper than the questions allow.
Only about the research. The final question of the survey asks if you’re open to a 30-minute follow-up call — if you say yes, we’ll reach out to schedule it. You won’t be added to a sales sequence or get a demo request off the back of this survey.
Yes, please. The more associates we hear from, the more honest the picture. Forward the link to anyone whose perspective should be in the report.
Less than 10 minutes. Anonymous in reporting. Full report shared with every participant.
