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Over the past ten weeks, we’ve explored the applications of AI in the legal field and dove into the specifics of how one may leverage AI tools to expedite and streamline legal work.

AI will continue reshaping industries and open new doors in legal work, transforming how legal professionals handle their work. Staying updated and informed in this technological revolution is of utmost importance. To that end, here are 10 useful prompts one may use on generative AI tools for legal work.

Wonju Lee

Top 10 Prompts for Legal Professionals

In this article, we will review several legal professional-specific artificial intelligence tools. Artificial intelligence has single-handedly transformed legal professional work and continues to improve across multiple platforms.

With the development of the state-of-the-art language model ChatGPT by OpenAI, other AI tools have been designed with various machine learning architectures. The current GPT 4 model utilizes the transformer model, widely accepted as a robust natural language processing architecture from the paper “Attention is All You Need,” published in 2017. The transformer architecture utilizes the concept of self-attention, which has proven to excel in processing sequences, particularly natural languages, and is adopted in other architectures, such as long short-term memory (LSTM) networks. Further explaining such is beyond the scope of this article, though it is important to note that technical innovations in ML training and inference have and will continue to evolve.

How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, choose the right AI tools for legal practices?

Elevate Your Legal Practice: Picking the Right AI Legal Tool

In this article, we will be covering a subspace of legal practice: trials. A trial is a form of legal proceeding typically held in courtrooms presided over by a judge or jury, depending on the case, where the facts of a case are provided, and after deliberation, a decision is made whether the defendant is guilty of the charges. Trial stages include jury selection, opening statements, cross-examination of witnesses, presentation of evidence, and more. Legal professionals, including lawyers and prosecutors, must be well prepared for their cases ahead of time.

Artificial intelligence tools are revolutionizing this process. Generative AI tools like Chat GPT have emerged as powerful tools that can empower lawyers by providing suggestions for legal argument drafting, evidence, analysis, and trial strategies. We will dive into several applications of AI in aiding lawyers with trial practice, though the prompts and examples presented in this article are merely the tip of the iceberg.

How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for trial practice?

AI in the Courtroom: Enhancing Trial Strategies for Lawyers

We will cover the last article of the mini-series on legal document drafting. The focus of this article is estate planning documents.

Estate planning is a broad process that involves a strategic approach to organizing one’s assets in one's lifetime and beyond. Estate planning may have several purposes, including protecting assets against creditors, minimizing estate taxes, or smoothly transferring wealth to chosen entities. Estate planning documents include but are not limited to living trusts, wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, and so on.

How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for drafting real estate planning documents?

Smart Solutions for Estate Planning: Navigating the Future of Legal Drafting

This article is the second of the mini-series to introduce how AI can assist legal professionals with drafting legal documents. Specifically, we will be focusing on court filings and pleadings.

Court filings and pleadings refer to formal documents submitted to the court regarding the legal case parties are involved in.  Specifically, court pleadings are documents that serve to outline the details of the case, including each party’s position, allegations, evidence, and legal claims. Court filings are a broader set of legal documents that include briefs, affidavits, motions, and other related documents. Leveraging AI will enable legal professionals to keep track of drafting such documents.


In the fast-paced legal environment, it is of utmost importance to draft court filings and pleadings that are persuasive, accurate, and compliant with necessary legal requirements. Recently, the advent of generative AI models like ChatGPT with remarkable performances is simplifying the meticulous and daunting process of drafting such documents. These models have emerged to provide meaningful assistance and suggestions to legal professionals as they seek to leverage AI’s potential.

How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI to draft court filings and pleadings?

AI as Co-Counsel: Enhancing Legal Drafting in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Over the next three weeks, we will explore how AI tools can assist in drafting legal documents. This week, we will dive into how AI can assist legal professionals in drafting legal contracts and agreements.

Legal contract drafting refers to the composing of a legal agreement between multiple parties. In many cases, legally binding contracts strive to outline the terms of the agreement while protecting the rights of all parties involved and are crucial to resolving legal issues.


The nature of law requires precision and meticulous attention to detail, and drafting legal contracts and agreements can be a time-consuming task for legal professionals. The process is a cornerstone to many lawyers and paralegals, and they often are immersed in mass amounts of information, spending hours of mindful and precise crafting language and analysis. With the assistance of generative AI, lawyers and paralegals can now draft legal contacts and agreements with high accuracy at unprecedented speed and efficiency.


How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for legal contract drafting?

AI is Reshaping the Landscape of Legal Contract Drafting

In this article, we will dive into the writing and communication aspects of legal work and how AI can assist professionals. Effective communication skills are critical to hone across all disciplines, and legal professions are no exception. If anything, communication is essential to the daily work of legal professionals, whether it be contacting clients, drafting legal documents, or presenting in court.

Generative AI provides outputs based on multiple layers of machine learning training with human-spoken language, serving as a practical communication assistant for legal professionals. We will dive into a demonstration of how one may enhance their communication abilities in a professional legal work setting using Chat GPT.


How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for communication?

From Bytes to Briefs: The Synergy of AI and Legal Professionals in Communication

In this article, we will be exploring yet another application of generative AI for legal professions in research. The rapid development of artificial intelligence is transforming how we collect information. In an ever-interconnected world, generative AI will revolutionize conducting research for lawyers and paralegals.

This article will explore the potential of generative AI in empowering lawyers and paralegals through efficient research and uncover how AI can collect information online and analyze the legal landscape. AI continues to streamline the laborious research process as legal professionals harness its power striving for legal excellence. Again, demonstrations in this article will be performed on Chat GPT. The current GPT engine takes up to 3000 words, though various research prompts, as such will be presented in this article, require fewer words significantly under the limit.


How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for legal research?

Streamlining Legal Research: Harnessing the Potential of AI to Empower Lawyers and Paralegals

Previously, we looked into how generative AI can enable lawyers, paralegals, and other legal professionals to summarize mass amounts of text information. In this article, we will be exploring the applications of AI in text analysis, specifically concerning texts including but not limited to case laws, statutes and regulations, legal treatises and commentaries, academic or legal articles, discovery materials, and legal opinions.


With the mass amounts of texts lawyers and paralegals face, it is crucial to analyze the text and extract relevant concepts precisely. While the volume and specificity of the text may vary based on the specialization or area of law, there are generally mass amounts of legal texts that require summarization for lawyers and paralegals.


This article will demonstrate how lawyers and paralegals can benefit from drawing out important and relevant legal information by looking into several practical prompts. It is worth noting that prompts can be modified given the legal context or type of documents one seeks to analyze. As mentioned in the previous article on summarization, the current GPT engine takes up to 3000 words, though the typically recommended text length is between 1400 and 1600 words. Based on the size of the text, it may be helpful to provide a brief synopsis of the context and purpose of the text to better direct the generative AI toward an accurate analysis of the text.

How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for text analysis?

Transforming Text Analysis for Lawyers and Paralegals

The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology is fundamentally changing the way we interact with technology. With various AI models providing unprecedented tools for intelligent systems, it has become exponentially easier to perform complex tasks with minimal time and effort. Chat GPT, an AI language model, is at the forefront of this technological revolution. Based on the GPT-3.5 architecture, Chat GPT has been trained on over 45 terabytes of text data, and its performances have been astonishing. The AI language model currently surpasses human intelligence with an approximate IQ of 147, passing the LSAT and bar exams.

The applications of AI spread across a wide range of disciplines. Over the next ten weeks, we will explore how generative AI can empower lawyers, paralegals, and the legal system at large. While there are multiple generative AI tools, including GetGenie and Bard, this paper will focus primarily on ChatGPT, though similar structures and logic of the prompts can be applied to other platforms.


Legal professionals spend hours reading and summarizing important legal information from extensive research. Summarization is critical to understanding the legal conflict and effectively communicating with others involved in the legal case. Examples of legal texts lawyers and paralegals may encounter daily include but are not limited to legal documents, case laws, statutes and regulations, legal treatises and commentaries, academic or legal articles, discovery materials, and legal opinions. While the volume and specificity of the text may vary based on the specialization or area of law, there are generally mass amounts of legal texts that require summarization for lawyers and paralegals.

How can legal professions, including lawyers and paralegals, utilize generative AI for text summarization?

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