AI prompts are transforming legal document drafting. Technical precision in prompting artificial intelligence can significantly improve the utility and credibility of its output, especially when the AI draws exclusively from data contained in client matters and not from outside sources.
A well-drafted AI prompt acts like a clear direction from a senior lawyer to a junior about how to prepare a document. It sets precise parameters for the task, identifies the required information and where it must be drawn from, specifies the document’s form and any legal or procedural rules with which it must comply, and forbids the use of external or unauthorised sources, including invention – or in AI’s case, hallucination.
The outcome of using an AI prompt in a matter that contains sufficient reliable data should be a competent first draft of a document that the lawyer can then refine and perfect, either with or without further input from AI.
Even if sufficient data is not available in the matter to satisfy the prompt’s requirements for the document, the AI will identify the missing data the lawyer needs to obtain via instructions or other means.
By Lawyers is pleased to introduce AI prompts to our publications, helping our subscribers harness the power of LEAP’s Matter AI.
Initially, prompts for letters, affidavits, statutory declarations, and briefs to counsel are being added to the following guides:
- Sale and Purchase of Real Estate – All states;
- Mortgages – NSW;
- Family Provision Claims – QLD;
- Family Provision Claims – VIC;
- Probate and Letters of Administration – VIC;
- Family Law – Divorce, Children, and Property Settlement – FED;
- Personal Injury – VIC; and
- Transport Accident Commission Claims – VIC.
By Lawyers will continue adding AI prompts to our publications as part of our regular and ongoing commitment to enhancing our content and helping our subscribers enjoy practice more.
Like all By Lawyers precedents, AI prompts will be updated as required for any changes in the law and practice.
We welcome feedback and suggestions from our subscribers about AI prompts.