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AI prompts – ALL states

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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.

Family provision claims VIC

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New precedents have been added to the By Lawyers Family Provision Claims VIC publication.

Following an author review of the guides, there is new content on the matter plans for both Acting for the Estate and Acting for the Plaintiff.

The new content to assist practitioners acting for clients in relation to claims on a deceased estate under Part IV of the Administration and Probate Act 1958 includes:

Acting for the Estate – new family provision precedents

  • Letter to beneficiary affected by settlement of claim
  • Letter to client after first directions hearing
  • Letter to client enclosing affidavits for signing
  • Letter to client enclosing draft affidavits
  • Letter to witness enclosing affidavit for signing

Acting for the Plaintiff – new family provision precedents

  • Letter to potential claimant
  • Authority to settle and receive
  • Direction to pay and authority to receive
  • Letter to client enclosing settlement deed
  • Letter to client after filing claim
  • Letter to client enclosing draft affidavit
  • Letter to client enclosing affidavit for signing
  • Letter to client after first directions hearing
  • Letter to client enclosing estate affidavits
  • Letter to witness enclosing affidavit for signing
  • Letter to client finalising the matter – Payment
  • Letter to client finalising the matter – No payment

This review of the Family Provision Claims VIC publication and the addition of these new family provision precedents is part of By Lawyers continuing commitment to enhancing our content and helping our subscribers enjoy practice more.

New criminal precedents- All states

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By Lawyers have added over 50 new criminal precedents to the matter plans in our Criminal guides for all jurisdictions. These practical and helpful new precedents will save practitioners time and make matter management easier.

The new criminal precedents cover many of the tasks required when acting for a defendant in criminal proceedings, from arrest, attendance at the police station and bail, to court attendance, sentencing and appeals.

As part of this significant enhancement to our Criminal guides, we have introduced a new type of precedent which is particularly useful for criminal practitioners – Attendance notes.  Attendance note precedents are pre-drafted, detailed file notes which both record work usually performed on a matter and act as a reminder of the necessary components of various common tasks.

An extensive selection of new precedent letters have also been added to the appropriate folders in the Criminal matter plans. These letters are designed to assist practitioners:

  • arrange bail for their clients;
  • seek disclosure from the prosecution;
  • gather evidence from the client and their witnesses;
  • arrange for witnesses to attend court;
  • advise clients on their plea; and
  • inform clients of sentencing outcomes.

By Lawyers are always working to improve and expand our content. These new precedents increase the value of our criminal guides for practitioners who advise and represent clients in criminal matters in all states of Australia.

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