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AI for Legal Assistants

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The shift

How AI is changing the Legal Assistant role

AI now handles many routine legal support tasks like summarizing long depositions, drafting standard correspondence, and pulling key dates from contracts. It can review discovery documents for relevant terms and prepare first drafts of pleadings or memos. This frees Legal Assistants to focus on case strategy support, client communication, and accuracy checks.

What AI can take off your plate

  • Summarizing long depositions, transcripts, and email threads
  • Drafting routine correspondence and standard form documents
  • Extracting dates and deadlines from contracts and orders
  • Organizing and tagging discovery documents by keyword
  • Building tables of authorities and proofreading citations

What stays distinctly human

  • Verifying every fact, date, and citation against the source record
  • Maintaining client confidentiality and judgment on what to share
  • Communicating with clients, courts, and opposing counsel directly
  • Knowing local court rules, clerk preferences, and filing nuances
  • Flagging issues that need an attorney's legal judgment
Tools

Five AI tools for Legal Assistants

Microsoft Copilot
A Legal Assistant uses it inside Word and Outlook to draft client emails, format pleadings, and summarize long email threads about a case.
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ChatGPT
Use it to draft cover letters, summarize statutes in plain language, and create checklists for filing requirements in different courts.
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Spellbook
A Legal Assistant uses this Word add-in to review and redline contract clauses and flag missing or unusual terms before an attorney reviews them.
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Clearbrief
Use it to check that statements in a brief match the cited evidence and to build linked exhibits and tables of authorities.
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CoCounsel (by Thomson Reuters)
A Legal Assistant uses it to summarize deposition transcripts, organize document review, and prepare timelines from case files.
Prompts

Five prompts to try today

Paste these into Claude or ChatGPT and replace the bracketed parts with your own details.

1. Summarize a deposition
Summarize this deposition transcript for an attorney. List key admissions, dates, names, and any contradictions. Note page and line numbers for each point. Transcript: [paste transcript]
2. Draft a client status letter
Draft a professional status update letter to a client named [client name] about their [case type] matter. Include recent developments: [list developments] and next steps: [list next steps]. Keep the tone clear and reassuring.
3. Build a filing checklist
Create a step-by-step filing checklist for a [document type] in [court name and jurisdiction]. Include formatting rules, required copies, deadlines, and filing fees if known.
4. Extract key dates from a contract
Read this contract and list all dates, deadlines, renewal terms, and notice periods in a table with the relevant clause number. Contract: [paste contract text]
5. Plain-language explanation
Explain this statute or rule in plain language for a client who is not a lawyer. Keep it under 200 words and note any deadlines or actions they must take. Text: [paste statute or rule]
The playbook

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Legal PlaybookContract review
Ask a stack of contracts what actually differs, with citations

Compare your playbook against a redline without rereading every clause yourself. Free, and every answer points back to the source.

NotebookLM FREE  Google's free tool that answers only from sources you upload, with citations

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Go to notebooklm.google.com (free Google account), start a notebook, and add sources: your standard template, the counterparty's marked-up version, and your fallback position memo.

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Ask it, so every answer is grounded in your own documents:

Compare the counterparty draft against our standard template. List every clause where they deviate, quote the exact language from each version, and flag which deviations touch [indemnification, limitation of liability, termination].
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Then pull your negotiation notes:

For each flagged deviation, quote what our fallback memo says our acceptable position is.

You walk into the negotiation knowing exactly what changed and where your line is, sourced from your own materials rather than memory.

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