AI Prompts for Lawyers

A good prompt is reusable infrastructure. Once you’ve written and tested a prompt that turns a 45-minute task into a 5-minute task, you keep using it. Law Firm Brief’s Prompts library is the curated set of AI prompts — for ChatGPT, Claude, and the practice-management AI tools — that actually save a solo or small-firm lawyer time on real matters.

What makes a Law Firm Brief prompt

• Tested. Every prompt we publish has been run against real fact patterns, real contracts, or real documents. We tell you what it produced.
• Verbatim. Copy and paste. No “here’s the gist of the prompt” — we publish the actual text.
• Annotated. Each prompt has notes on which model to use (Claude tends to do nuance better; GPT-5 is cheaper for parallel runs), where it tends to break, and what to customize for your jurisdiction.
• Bounded. We tell you what the prompt is for — and what it is not. AI prompts are not legal judgment. Privilege calls, strategy, and final review stay with the lawyer.

Categories we maintain

• Intake — turn a 30-minute intake call into a structured matter brief in five minutes of editing.
• Contract review — first-pass redline generation, clause extraction, risk-shifting flagging, and the chained-prompt sequences we use for MSAs.
• Discovery — responsiveness triage, privilege flagging (with the appropriate human-in-the-loop reminders), chronology extraction, and document-set summarization.
• Drafting — demand letters, engagement letters, settlement summaries, status updates — the recurring documents that eat your week.
• Research summarization — turn a 200-page document or a stack of opinions into a working brief faster, with explicit caveats about what the AI can and can’t be trusted to extract.
• Client communication — plain-language explanations of legal concepts for clients, drafted from your notes.

How to use these prompts

Paste into your AI tool of choice. Read what comes back. Edit. Don’t ship anything to a client without your eyes on it. The prompt is the head start; you are the judgment layer.

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