An AI Legal Writing Generator expedites your ability to draft clear, professional legal documents while alleviating some of the monotony of your drafting work, allowing you to focus more on the strategic and caring aspects of the practice. The AI Legal Writing Generator transforms plain-language prompts into structured drafts for pleading, motions, contracts, and client letters and provides editing opportunities to improve tone, clarity, and formatting for legal audiences. This tool can only support image attachments in its chat, so images of clauses, and/or exhibits are easily referenced, and files and PDFs are unsupported.
What is an AI Legal Writing Generator?
An AI Legal Writing Generator is a computer program that utilizes natural language generation to create and refine legal text based on your prompts, templates, and examples as well as first drafts and plain-English summaries, perform consistency checks, and it will assist lawyers and legal teams in speedily creating drafts without replacing discretionary professional judgment. Think of this as a tireless paralegal laying out arguments, cleaning up your citations, and suggesting clearer phrasing, while you ultimately remain the final editor.
Key Features
Prompt-to-draft: Provide a matter outline, issues, and facts, and the software will return a structured draft brief, motion, or memo that you can then immediately edit.
Style and tone controls: Change between persuasive, neutral, or friendly language and make suggestions to simplify lengthy and complex sentences without losing the meaning.
Clause assembly: Build contracts by starting from approved clause libraries and merge forms with variable fields and consistent language, like naming the parties, dates, and jurisdictions.
Summarization: Create bullet-point high notes or executive summaries using long meeting notes or summary notes from discovery for internal updates or to provide to clients.
Image-only submissions: Use screenshots of clauses, pages with annotations, or images of your whiteboard to inform and guide the draft. You cannot upload files or PDFs, so you will need to convert to images first if some pages have critical or important information.
What this helps you accomplish
Saves time on initial drafts by taking your bullet points and screenshots and converting them to a well-structured document that can take draft time down from hours to minutes for filings that are routine.
Clarity and readability with plainly written text, that is still legally precise, can provide your clients with more understandable communications and cover letters.
Consistency is improved by keeping the same voice, headings and patterns of clauses as your team creates work product. This can help keep revision cycles shorter.
Promotes risk awareness by keeping you, as the final reviewer, informed and allowing you to make sure the authorities and facts are vetted before filing or sending to clients.
Some realistic applications
Litigation: Copy and paste your list of issues and a brief summary of the facts, then extra in a section on persuasive arguments using headings, and a neutral statement of the facts. Attach an image of an important exhibit to reference in your draft.
Transactions: Select “NDA” or “Services Agreement,” select governing law and term, and select your approved fallback clauses to generate a well thought out draft. Attach images of your negotiated redlines because you can not pdf.
Client updates: Change multi-page call notes into a two-paragraph status letter to a client with next steps and deadlines written as bullets. Attach a screen shot of the timeline to anchor the perspective of your two paragraphs.
Compliance: Create a brief policy summary for non-lawyers by condensing long passages into short sections with definitions or in do/don’t bullet point format for posting on the intranet.
Tips for effective prompts
Your prompt should provide the role and goal (e.g., “Act as outside counsel writing a motion to compel, using brief and professional tone”) to set clear expectations for both the content and style.
Your prompt should specify key facts, as well as a desired structure (e.g., “use headings: Introduction, Facts, Argument and Relief Requested”) plus a screenshot of a relevant clause or exhibit, among other things.
Your prompt should include any jurisdictional nuances, as appropriate, such as court venue, governing law, or whichever citations you expect, so it’s aligned with your norms; just remember to see and verify the authorities yourself before using.
Your prompt should specify limits on things like word count, bullet lists, plain-English summary, or other constraints to keep AI generated content tight and outside ready for your client review.
Ethical and quality issues
While using the AI Legal Writing Generator, you should make sure to use anonymized terms or placeholders, when appropriate, as you strip off any data that may be considered sensitive when providing or sharing prompts (especially when using a screenshot).
While you may generate that next great citation or quote or statement of fact, you will want to fact check each citation and quote and statement of fact yourself, and thus consider the output a draft product yet to be completed and delivered, subject to local court rules and the ethics and standards of professional responsibility in your jurisdiction.
You probably will want to document in your review the process, including further steps of human review, to adhere to any new bar guidance on responsible, ethical use of generative AI as a tool for lawyers.
Getting Started
Things to do in advance of getting started: outline the structure of the matter and provide some sample paragraphs or two exhibiting your norms and voice; the AI will likely follow you in the further writing and outline your own structures and precedents (in your own voice).
When using any supporting materials, then convert those materials to images before attaching them, nothing ironic about that as Excel documents are not to be attached (tag your images, e.g., “Clause-2-Termination.png”).
Draft for now, revise after, and but like in drafting, since all could be called drafting with the AI tooling, revise after you get it! Ask to revise your writing to align on tone and structure; add in your authorities; and, after your review do a final legal and factual review and ready to deliver to your client!
Closing Thoughts
The AI Legal Writing Generator enables legal and compliance professionals to more efficiently write and produce text that is clearer and consistent with the generative capabilities an AI tool can provide, and without disregarding judgment and professionalism. With its images as the only file attachment and prompt and drill down all way to final draft or writing, the AI Legal Writing Generator simply makes repetitive and ordinary writing easier and faster onto to play with your practice strategies to increase delivery of value; their experience and outcomes on the clients engaged don’t wait too long to try it out on your next memo or client update or more course material see how it changes your day.