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AI for lawyers and legal teams who cannot afford a wrong citation

For Solicitors, paralegals and in house counsel.

Use AI to draft, summarise and organise faster, while every citation, clause and piece of advice still passes through your own trained judgement before it reaches a client or a court.

When to use this

You have a pile of documents to review, a first draft to produce under time pressure, and a client who needs a plain language answer, not a wall of clauses.

  • Summarises a long contract or bundle and flags clauses worth a closer look
  • Drafts a first pass of a letter, memo or clause from your instructions
  • Turns dense legal language into a plain summary a client can actually read

Workflow

  1. Give the tool the document or instructions and a clear, narrow question

  2. Ask for a summary or draft with any assumptions stated separately, not buried

  3. Treat every citation as unverified until you have checked it yourself

  4. Rewrite the draft in your own judgement and your firm's voice

  5. Keep client identifying details out of general purpose tools unless your firm has approved that use

Prompts to try

Use it, adapt it, and make it your own.

Summarise this document in plain language for a client with no legal background. List the key obligations, dates and risks separately. Do not invent any clause, case or statute that is not in the text I gave you, and mark anything unclear as [CHECK].
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Human lens

  • You are the one who owes the duty of care, not the tool
  • You verify every citation, case reference and statute against the primary source
  • You judge what the client's real situation calls for, which no draft can know

What to avoid

  • Generated case citations and quotes can be fabricated and must be checked against a primary source
  • Client confidentiality and privilege rules govern what you can paste into a general tool
  • A fluent draft is not the same as sound legal advice for this specific client

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Tools that fit: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini · Reviewed 2026-07-19