Your competitors are already using AI to work smarter, delivering better results for clients while saving time in repetitive legal tasks. Time literally equals money in litigation, making this technology more than a tech trend: it will become the dividing line between thriving and struggling law practices.
Generic AI agencies and solutions fail to see what makes this industry unique: confidentiality requirements, complex regulatory frameworks, and high-stakes precision where a single error can mean malpractice. This is where legal AI companies can help in implementation and growth, due to their deep understanding of your needs.
In this article, we’ll explore what a legal AI company is and how it can help your practice flourish. We’ll also explore why firms partner with Personal AI to improve their business and how it can help in reducing workload and increasing profit.
A legal AI company is a tech business that builds technology, tools, and solutions for the legal industry. It focuses on serving law practices, offering more relevant and powerful solutions due to deeper industry knowledge.
Their aim is to, as much as possible, automate, optimize and enhance all the tasks and workflows that lawyers, paralegals, legal departments do manually, slowly, and expensively.
When compared with a general AI automation agency, a legal AI company understands implementation constraints better. For example:
While legal AI companies may have proprietary software and systems of their own, they may act as solution builders or advisers that use existing platforms. They can handle setup, design, development, implementation, and optimization of legal AI tooling, depending on their services. On top of that, they’ll have specific ROI calculation frameworks that help you gauge growth accurately.
With so much on the line, choosing a legal AI company over a general AI agency reduces business risk and increases the problem-solution fit of all the tools you build.
While we’re still far from creating an AI agent that completely automates entire job descriptions, AI can already take care of resource-consuming workflows, freeing your team to do more.
According to a study by Thomson Reuters, AI could save up to 4 hours per week, increasing billable time by $100,000 per lawyer. For non-billable or contingency lawyers, the efficiency gains are tremendous and directly result in higher profitability. Here’s an overview of how this technology can help you achieve and go beyond these results.
Creating documents is a vital part of a legal practice, where your team either drafts them from scratch or adapts existing templates based on the work requirements. While these tasks demand significant expertise and attention, they can consume a lot of time due to the required attention to detail.
AI document automation can generate high-quality drafts of various document types including:
This eliminates the initial drafting stage of the workflow, allowing your attorneys to focus on higher-value work: reviewing for legal soundness, strategic positioning, and case-specific nuances that require human judgment.
Every case requires thorough research to explore every possible angle and mitigate as many risks as possible. This involves searching through case law, regulations, among many other types of data.
When connecting external data sources to an AI model (a method named retrieval augmented generation, RAG for short), you can ask questions and get answers based on facts, not on training data. Based on the question, the RAG system extracts relevant snippets of text by running a semantic search, and adds them as context to your question.
Since AI performs best when you provide more information, it will have the most up-to-date and accurate information to generate the best response. As long as you keep the data sources current with the all cases, it will always surface the best-matching precedents. And if you’re in doubt, you can always ask more questions or add more instructions to search from a different angle, helping you exhaust all the possibilities quicker.
This helps surface relevant insights in minutes or hours instead of days. It addresses the ethical duty of thoroughness, as AI can process much more information than a human can, increasing research quality without higher time investment. It also democratizes expertise in your firm, as juniors can do higher quality work without requiring as much awareness and skill as seniors.
Due to AI’s reasoning skills, you can use this research stage to ask questions about possible interpretations and relevance, which could help steer the stage to build solutions and increase the likelihood of winning.
When reviewing contracts, it’s essential to analyze the language to understand how a specific wording could open risks. Unusual terms or missing clauses could expose clients to harmful situations, so it’s vital to catch these elements before signing.
AI can have access to detailed contract analysis instructions and examples, offering ways to explore whether a contract is solid or could use adjustments. The most common implementation of this tool involves:
This user experience offers both speed and depth, depending on the complexity of the document.
On top of this, AI can also help in running benchmarks on language or compare contracts with competing firms, in case you want to model an approach or guard your clients against it. This can be done on the same tool, either incorporated as the initial assessment or a follow-up request via chat.
Seasoned litigators develop an intuitive sense for case assessment, evaluating potential outcomes, identifying obstacles, and estimating required resources. This experience is fundamental for matter scoping, structuring fees, and providing candid counsel about litigation risks.
But even seasoned professionals may face new jurisdictions, unfamiliar judges, or evolving areas of law. AI can address these challenges by analyzing factors such as:
Drawing from public court records and your firm’s data, these tools can generate assessments that explore likely outcomes, potential roadblocks, and estimate timelines.
These insights are useful to make decisions on which cases to take, fee arrangements, litigation strategy, settlement negotiations, and providing transparent client counseling. Regarding business outcomes, predictive analytics increases budgeting accuracy and client satisfaction through realistic expectations.
Service businesses have to deal with customer and client care, which can impact the amount of admin your team needs to do. These tasks relate to intake information for new clients, status updates, and answering general questions.
Legal support staff and attorneys often spend substantial time routing client interactions. These include initial intake, status inquiries, and general procedural questions.
AI-powered client communication tools can reduce overhead while maintaining high service standards. These systems can:
This creates a more responsive client experience, freeing your staff to focus on higher-value legal work.
Beyond these legal-specific use cases, AI augments traditional automation with higher intelligence and capacity to work with any kind of data. This means you can begin saving time in repetitive internal tasks, freeing up the cognitive load for higher-value work.
Successful implementations in legal settings include:
These automations integrate with most major legal practice management platforms, with implementation typically requiring minimal IT resources when working with a specialized legal AI provider.
Personal AI helps legal practices grow with proprietary technology (the MODEL-3 AI model) and a communication platform to integrate AI Personas with your human workforce.
The MODEL-3 AI model can be trained with all your firm’s data, answering questions and generating documents accurately based on your files. More than that, with timeline awareness, it can answer questions based on the sequence of events, making it useful to navigate casework, running audits, and getting a fuller picture of all activities faster.
To interact with your data, you can create AI Personas, which act as specialists in key tasks and topics. For example, you can create a Persona to gather all the knowledge about a practice area, helping attorneys quickly access memoranda, strategies or work product. They can do so by chatting with the AI Persona individually or in team channels, where they can collaborate with others and get AI-powered answers at the same time.
These personas are customizable with instructions and directives, making it easy to switch between different modes of knowledge exploration. It’s as easy to generate a contract according to your preset instructions, as is reverting back to Q&A mode. The entire setup process requires zero coding knowledge or technical skill to implement.
Here’s a shortlist of examples of what current legal practice clients are achieving with Personal AI:
Personal AI has SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA certifications, highlighting its commitment to data privacy and security. Your data is safe, it’s yours and will never be used to train any public model.
Legal AI companies are valuable growth partners, helping apply this new technology to your operations, saving time, and increasing the overall quality of the services you provide.
While legal professionals remain hesitant, embracing AI is reducing non-billable time, improving outcomes and client satisfaction. These benefits materialize within months of implementation, not years, providing good medium-term ROI.
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