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What a UK law firm wants to know before, during and after bringing an assistant into its work. Short, practical and written to be checked, like everything else here.
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The tasks worth giving to AI are the ones where the source material is already in front of you and the answer can be checked against it. Judgement, strategy and client relationships stay with the fee earner.
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AI can help you read and summarise the documents a client provides and find official guidance, but it cannot verify identity, run screening or decide a risk rating. Those remain the firm's job.
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Yes, for the mechanical part: reading every page, pulling out entries and dates, and showing where each one appears. Clinical opinion and the decision on what matters stay with the expert and the fee earner.
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Yes, for the parts of preparation that are document work and arithmetic: the offer history, the figures, what each side has actually said. The negotiation itself, and the advice on whether to settle, stay with you.
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AI can gather the facts a budget rests on: what has happened, what the directions require and what the file already shows. The estimating, the assumptions and the signature remain human work.
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It can do the slow part: reading what the prospective client sends, pulling out dates and parties, and telling you what is missing. The decision to act, and the conflict check, stay with a person.
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You cannot take it on trust. Ask whether the tool reads legislation and guidance at the official source and names it, then open the source yourself and check the section is in force and unamended.
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Treat it as an assertion about the law, not a source of law. Check every citation and quotation at source before it touches your advice, then tell the client plainly what you found.
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AI can help you find the personal data across a file, build a working index and draft the covering correspondence. The judgement calls, exemptions, third party data and redaction, stay with a qualified person.
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Yes, for the groundwork: gathering the facts from the papers, finding the source material and structuring the letter. The advice itself, and the judgement behind it, stays with the fee earner.
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Yes, for the mechanical layer of checking: figures, dates, cross-references, defined terms and internal consistency. It will not tell you whether the document is right, and it does not replace the fee earner who signs it.
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Yes, for the mechanical parts: the chronology, the document list, the background summary and a first draft. The questions you put to counsel, and what you choose to leave out, remain your judgement.
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