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AI by Practice Area

What works and what breaks for in-house, employment, IP, real estate, tax, family, criminal, estate and personal-injury lawyers.

Start hereAI by Practice Area: Tasks, Traps and a Starter Prompt for Each Type of LawyerAI by practice area, one card each: tasks that work, traps, a verified sanction story and a starter prompt for in-house, employment, IP, tax and family.14 min read →
  1. AI for Criminal Defense Lawyers: Body-Cam Timelines, Suppression Matrices and the Privilege SeizureAI for criminal defense lawyers: NACDL's duty argument, body-cam timelines, suppression matrices, sentencing memos, Padilla and the Heppner seizure.9 min read
  2. AI for Employment Lawyers: Handbooks, Severance, 409A and the Handbook That Forgot Anti-HarassmentAI for employment lawyers: handbook audits, severance and 409A prompts, wage-hour surveys, the ChatGPT handbook that forgot anti-harassment, the NLRA trap.8 min read
  3. AI for Estate Planning Lawyers: Safe Automation and the AI Will Signed at the Kitchen TableAI for estate planning lawyers: what to automate safely (clause libraries, probate calendars, plain-language letters) and why client-drafted AI wills fail.8 min read
  4. AI for Family Lawyers: Standard Petitions, Financial Discovery and the Client Who Uses ChatGPTAI for family lawyers: petitions, financial tracing and chronologies for you; ChatGPT custody plans and waived privilege for clients. Workflows inside.9 min read
  5. AI for immigration lawyers: the high-volume workflows that help, and the shortcuts that drew 2026's sanctionsAI for immigration lawyers: safe intake, evidence chronologies and country-conditions research, and why immigration drew some of 2026's harshest sanctions.10 min read
  6. AI for In-House Counsel: From Shallow Lake to Working WorkflowsAI for in-house counsel: 87% of GCs use GenAI, 7% have scaled it. Four workflows that work (NDAs, DPAs, intake, invoices) and the Heppner privilege test.12 min read
  7. AI for IP Lawyers: The USPTO Rules, the Export-Control Trap and Trademark Clearance LimitsAI for IP lawyers: the USPTO's six practitioner rules, the foreign-filing-licence trap for AI on non-US servers, Class ACT, and where AI clearance fails.9 min read
  8. AI for litigation lawyers: the workflows that work, the ones that get you sanctioned, and how to tell them apartAI for litigation lawyers: using ChatGPT, Claude, CoCounsel and Relativity aiR for chronologies, discovery, briefs and moots without getting sanctioned.12 min read
  9. AI for Personal Injury Lawyers: Medical Chronologies, Demand Letters and the HIPAA LineAI for personal injury lawyers: medical chronologies, demand-letter prompts, which ChatGPT tiers carry a HIPAA BAA, adjuster backlash and Morgan & Morgan.9 min read
  10. AI for Real Estate Lawyers: Lease Abstraction, Title Review and the Length CeilingAI for real estate lawyers: can ChatGPT abstract a lease? Yes, with a field / value / clause-reference table and chunking; the fix for invented renewals.8 min read
  11. AI for Tax Lawyers: Useful for Parsing Statutes, Dangerous for StructuringAI for tax lawyers: where LLMs help (statutes, preliminary memos, indirect-tax Q&A) and where they fail: economic substance, arithmetic, fabricated cases.9 min read

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