AI for Legal Professionals

Important: AI assists lawyers, it does not replace legal judgment. Always verify AI outputs.

Contract Review Workflows

Contract Summary Prompt

Review this contract and provide:

Parties involved and roles

Key obligations of each party

Payment terms and schedule

Termination conditions

Liability limitations

Jurisdiction and governing law

Three most significant risk areas

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Risk Identification Prompt

Review as lawyer representing [buyer/seller]. Identify:

Clauses unusually unfavorable to my client

Missing standard protections for this agreement type

Ambiguous language that could be interpreted against my client

For each: location, the problem, suggested revision language.

Clause Comparison

Compare these two limitation of liability clauses: [Version 1] vs [Version 2]. Which is more favorable to the buyer? Explain practical differences.

Legal Research

Issue spotting prompt: Client situation: [facts]. What legal issues should I research? Include: primary claims and defenses, jurisdiction-specific considerations, recent case law trends. Note: I will verify all information independently.

Data Privacy - Critical

Never input confidential client data into public AI tools.

Safe options:

Enterprise APIs with DPA: OpenAI Enterprise, Anthropic API

Self-hosted: Ollama with Llama 3 70B locally

Legal-specific: Harvey, Casetext CoCounsel, Lexis+ AI

Time Savings

Contract review standard agreements: 40-60% faster

Legal research initial pass: 50-70% faster

First draft documents: 60-80% faster

Due diligence checklist: 70-80% faster

Ethical Rules

Competency: understand AI output well enough to verify it

Confidentiality: check your jurisdiction rules

Supervision: you are responsible for AI-generated work product

Accuracy: AI hallucinates citations. Verify everything.