Is Legal AI Increasing Your Work?

It might, but its for your own good

Let me share with you the top grouse we are hearing (especially from young lawyers) with our legal notice generator.

It is that it looks like this:

This is just so much work! If I have to type so much, I might has well draft the legal notice myself, right?

Surely, you can.

But for the app, everything is optional. You don’t need to type anything if you want? It will still generate a notice.

But then, will the notice work? How will it work?

Well, it might if you know how to use it.

The camera doesn’t make for a photographer?

That’s when I go back to eat my words.

See, here’s the thing. The hard truth.

Lawyers make AI work, and not the other way round

AI can make your work easy, in fact, reduce the amount you spend on tasks my insane multiples. But mostly, if you have your basics in place as a lawyer.

This being an instruction based technology, the more experienced you are, the more likely, there is more brevity and quality in your instructions.

That being said, we aren’t here only to serve experienced lawyers.

We are here to serve anyone who wishes to draft a legal notice.

If it were only experienced lawyers that used our app, we would have gone for a simple look. Something like this:

To be fair, say, you are a skilled lawyer who has spent years showing the way on facts versus opinion, narrative versus evidence, the points that matter and don’t.

Not only that, you have a basic awareness of what language models cant and can’t do, and tonne of time to experiment, this approach would work too.

AI has to make all lawyers effective, not just the best

But here’s the thing. You aren’t the one most often drafting legal notices.

It is someone who has never drafted one before, or has drafted a few, or who is still trying to understand what legal work means. That’s where first drafts land up for creation most often.

When you are inexperienced, having more fields to fill, and things to check off the list, means that they are thinking and putting together what’s required for a legal notice in a more structured way.

Having said that, do we want to reduce effort all round? Yes.

At the same time, do we need to care about the context in which our product operates?

The best interests of those who use it, and who are affected by it? Also, yes.

An illustration

Here’s some fun we had with looking at how the prompts would look like for a legal notice we are all familiar with. The one sent by Mr. Elon Musk’s lawyers at X Corp to Mr. Mark Zuckerberg at Meta.

We used the following inputs to mirror the facts that were available to X Corp’s lawyers.

Seems like a lot of work? Well, you can decide for yourself.

You can access the resulting drafts of the legal notices too. Here are the drafts generated when these inputs were put into our free (basic) version and also when we put them into the more powerful paid version.

You decide!