LLMs for Lawyers

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Use Cases by Legal Task

Task-level workflows with prompts and failure modes: research, contract review and drafting, due diligence, depositions, chronologies, summarisation, translation, e-discovery and client communication.

Start hereHow Lawyers Use AI in 2026: 12 Workflows With Evidence, Not HypeHow lawyers use AI in 2026: 12 documented workflows run with ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM and Copilot, what each saves, where it breaks, and the prompts.14 min read →
  1. AI Case Chronology: From 800 Emails to a Timeline in an AfternoonBuild an AI case chronology from email dumps, medical records and bank statements: review tables, source-linked cells and a small-firm NotebookLM version.8 min read
  2. AI Client Communication for Lawyers: Better Emails, Plainer Advice, and What to Do When Clients Use ChatGPT TooAI client communication for lawyers: draft plain-English emails, explain a discovery timeline in 200 words, and handle clients who reply with AI memos.9 min read
  3. AI Contract Drafting: Ask for Building Blocks, Not a Whole AgreementAI contract drafting is reaching litigators: unworkable warranties, US law in English SPAs. The failure patterns, safe prompts, a clause-by-clause method.10 min read
  4. AI Contract Review Against Your Playbook: The Complete WorkflowAI contract review only works against a playbook. Encode preferred, fallback and walk-away positions, get GREEN/YELLOW/RED flags, and catch what AI misses.11 min read
  5. AI Deposition Summary and Prep: Prompts, Tools and GuardrailsAn AI deposition summary with page-line cites, contradictions and cross outlines. Prompts, tools (Gemini Notebook, Everlaw, Claude) and privacy rules.9 min read
  6. AI Document Summarization for Lawyers: When a Summary Is Safe and When It Is a TrapAI document summarisation for lawyers: when a summary is safe, when it is a trap, how to demand source-linked output, and what Vals and Ashurst found.8 min read
  7. AI Due Diligence: The Five-Day Data-Room Workflow (and the Small-Firm Version)How BigLaw runs AI due diligence through Harvey and Legora in five days, and how a small deal team gets close with Claude Projects or Gemini Notebook.11 min read
  8. AI Legal Research Without Getting Sanctioned: The Research-Verify-Cite WorkflowAI legal research without filing a fake case: the research-verify-cite loop, prompts, and ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and legal tools ranked by error rate.11 min read
  9. AI Legal Translation: What Works, What Needs a Human, and How to Prompt ItAI legal translation is the quiet entry point to AI in European firms: how to use DeepL and LLMs on contracts, control terminology and where a human stays.8 min read
  10. AI Oral Argument Prep: Moot Your Case Without Being Fooled by a Confident Wrong AnswerAI oral argument prep with ChatGPT voice, Claude agents or a judge-GPT: your panel's likely questions, interruptions in their voice, and where it fails.8 min read
  11. Generative AI Document Review After Schulte v. LinkedIn: The Defensible WorkflowGenerative AI document review won court approval in Schulte v. LinkedIn, and Relativity aiR is free. What the ruling requires: culling, sampling, records.9 min read

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