Fourteen state bars have now issued formal ethics opinions on AI tool use by lawyers — and if you read them side by side, a clear operational checklist falls out. The opinions span California, New York, Florida, Texas, the District of Columbia, Illinois, New Jersey,...
Seven prompts, tested against real demand letter workflows — here’s what each one does, where to adjust it, and the one rule that applies to every citation it produces. Demand letters are high-stakes but formulaic enough that AI models can carry a significant...
These ten Claude prompts cut the mechanical slog out of discovery review — first-pass sorting, privilege flagging, chronology building — so attorneys can spend their time on the calls only they can make. Discovery document review eats hours that small firms...
You probably already own everything you need to run a defensible deadline system — the gap is the workflow connecting them. This workflow is for solo lawyers and firms of two to five attorneys who are already paying for Google Calendar or Outlook, some flavor of...
Automated client updates save 15–30 minutes per matter per week on routine status emails — but the setup has more decision points than any of the three vendors advertise, and the human approval step is where most small firms either win or lose the time savings...
A conflict check should take 90 seconds, not 15 minutes of scrolling through a spreadsheet you haven’t updated since March. Here’s an AI-augmented intake workflow that runs the check in real time, shows you the prompt, and tells you exactly where it will...
Briefpoint does one thing — drafting discovery — and it does it well enough that a solo civil litigator handling ten active matters will notice the time difference within the first week. Briefpoint sits in a narrow lane: AI-assisted drafting of interrogatories,...
Three document management systems dominate the small-firm conversation — and only one of them is actually built for you. Most small firms shopping for a DMS start with the wrong question. They ask “which one is best?” when the real question is “do I...
Lexis+ AI is a real research accelerator for routine work — and a liability if you trust it on anything that requires doctrinal nuance. Here’s what a year of daily use at a five-attorney firm actually looks like. We run a mixed litigation and transactional...
The 2026 ABA TechReport shows AI adoption climbing fast — but the headline numbers are mostly BigLaw’s story. Here’s what the data actually says for a solo or small firm, and what to do about it this week. Every year the ABA TechReport lands and every year... 
