Are you looking for ideas on how to apply AI to legal use cases? Here are 30 AI use cases for legal, courtesy of Niki Black!

Earlier this year at ABA TECHSHOW, Niki and Greg Siskind presented “60 AI Use Cases in 60 Minutes.” They covered how lawyers can use generative AI, 🤖 both legal-specific and consumer tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, across different parts of their practice—from client intake to drafting to internal operations. These weren’t future predictions—they were real, specific use cases that firms can test now.

Then, over several LinkedIn posts (including here, here, here, here, here and here, Niki shared those use cases. And she has allowed me to share them with you all here! So, here are the first 30 AI use cases for legal, courtesy of Niki Black!

🔷 Assist with GenAI prompts
Use case: Generate prompts that will provide the best response possible.
📥 Prompt: “Provide a prompt that will provide the necessary output that will assist me in accomplishing X.”

🔷 Voir dire questions
Use case: Generate targeted questions to assess potential jurors’ suitability for a trial.
📥 Prompt: “Create voir dire questions for a civil case involving personal injury to evaluate jurors’ biases and potential conflicts of interest related to X issue.”

🔷 Cross-examination questions
Use case: Develop strategic questions to challenge a witness during cross-examination.
📥 Prompt: “Generate a list of cross-examination questions for a witness testifying about defense of a third-party self-defense claim in a murder case.”

🔷 Drafting deposition questions
Use case: Generate specific, targeted questions for depositions, most likely with a legal-specific tool.
📥 Prompt: “Generate a list of deposition questions for a defendant in a medical malpractice case focusing on their handling of patient care.”

🔷 Deposition summary
Use case: Condense a deposition transcript into key points, facts, and relevant testimony, most likely with a legal-specific tool.
📥 Prompt: “Summarize the main points from this deposition transcript of witness X, highlighting key testimony, admissions, and contradictions.”
information for a personal injury case intake.”

🔷 Case chronologies
Use case: Create a chronological timeline of events for a case, likely using a legal-specific tool.
📥 Prompt: “Using the documents provided, create a detailed case chronology for a criminal defense matter involving a robbery charge, listing key events in chronological order.”

🔷 Trial docs Q & A
Use case: Query a database of trial-related documents (such as motions, briefs, and evidence) by asking questions to retrieve relevant information for trial preparation, likely using a legal-specific tool.
📥 Prompt: “Ask questions about the trial notebook database to identify key pieces of evidence, important arguments, or contradictions in the motions and briefs.”

🔷 Opening and closing argument assistance
Use case: Help draft and refine opening and closing statements for a case.
📥 Prompt: “Draft an opening statement for a personal injury case that highlights the plaintiff’s injuries and the defendant’s negligence based on the documents provided.”

🔷 Medical record summaries
Use case: Streamline the process of reviewing and summarizing complex medical records for cases, likely using a legal-specific tool.
📥 Prompt: “Summarize the key medical information from this set of medical records, highlighting diagnoses, treatments, and any relevant medical history.”

🔷 Case summaries
Use case: Provide a concise summary of case law facts and legal issues for internal or external use.
📥 Prompt: “Summarize the key facts, legal issues, and ruling of this case for internal review.”

🔷 Draft memo outlines so you’re not starting with a blinking cursor and a deadline.
Use case: Draft outlines to organize legal research and writing.
📥 Prompt: “Create an outline for a memorandum of law addressing the enforceability of non-compete agreements in New York.

🔷 Make your briefs more persuasive—judges shouldn’t need a decoder ring.
Use case: Enhance the effectiveness and persuasiveness of legal briefs.
📥 Prompt: “Revise this draft legal brief to make the arguments for summary judgment more compelling and persuasive.”

🔷 Ask legal-ish questions and get usable answers faster than you can dig through your bookmarks.
Use case: Use AI to quickly find answers to general questions.
📥 Prompt: “Provide a brief explanation of the process in NYS that is required for traffic sign quality inspections.”

🔷 Rewrite stiff client emails so they don’t sound like they were ghostwritten by a liability waiver.
Use case: Adjust the tone of legal communications to suit different recipients or purposes.
📥 Prompt: “Rewrite this email to a client, making the tone more empathetic while maintaining clarity.”

🔷 Translate consultations on the fly—because “we’ll get back to you” doesn’t build trust when you’re mid-conversation.
Use case: Facilitate communication with clients who speak different languages.
📥 Prompt: “Translate the following conversation from English to Mandarin during a client consultation on a property dispute.”

🔷 “Wait, what did we decide on that Zoom call?”
Use case: Provide concise summaries of meetings held over video conferencing platforms.
📥 Prompt: “Summarize the key takeaways from the Zoom meeting about the upcoming mediation in the business dispute case.”

🔷 Mapping the chaos you’ve been calling ‘process’
Use case: Determine, evaluate, and enhance internal workflows or processes in the firm.
📥 Prompt: “Ask about how we accomplish a process within our firm, provide a list of steps taken, review our firm’s current process for handling case intake, and suggest improvements or streamlining opportunities.”

🔷 Your intake form shouldn’t be 47 emails and a phone call
Use case: Draft custom intake forms for gathering information from new clients.
📥 Prompt: “Create an intake form that asks for all necessary legal and personal.”

🔷 Not every lead is a case, and not every case is your problem
Use case: Assess potential new clients based on their case details.
📥 Prompt: “Evaluate the following details for a potential client to determine if their case qualifies for a personal injury lawsuit.”

🔷 Make performance reviews suck less
Use case: Design structured performance review criteria tailored to different roles within the firm.
📥 Prompt: “Draft performance evaluation criteria for associates focusing on billable hours productivity, legal research quality, client interaction, and case management efficiency.”

🔷 “We should probably write that down” – the policy edition
Use case: Generate drafts of firm policies and procedures for review and implementation.
📥 Prompt: “Create a draft section of the firm’s policies and procedures manual for handling client confidential information.”

🔷 Training new hires without making it up on the spot
Use case: Generate tasks or exercises for training staff or interns.
📥 Prompt: “Create a training task for a new paralegal to practice drafting a complaint in a civil litigation case.”

🔷 Your ‘About Us’ page shouldn’t be an identity crisis
Use case: Develop engaging and relevant content for a law firm’s website.
📥 Prompt: “Generate a compelling ‘About Us’ page for a family law practice, emphasizing experience, compassion, and client-centered service.”

🔷 Actual translation > guessing what the page says
Use case: Translate legal content on the firm’s website for a wider audience.
📥 Prompt: “Translate this page of legal resources about divorce law into Spanish, ensuring accuracy and clarity for a Spanish-speaking audience.”

🔷 For when repeating “trusted and experienced” in ten different ways isn’t cutting it anymore
Use case: Write scripts for promotional videos or client testimonials.
📥 Prompt: “Write a script for a 90-second promotional video for a law firm specializing in estate planning.”

🔷 For when your firm’s Instagram is just…silent
Use case: Generate creative and engaging social media post ideas.
📥 Prompt: “Suggest five engaging social media post ideas for a law firm specializing in family law.”

🔷 Writing marketing emails that don’t read like hostage notes
Use case: Create persuasive marketing materials to attract clients.
📥 Prompt: “Write a short marketing email introducing the firm’s new services for personal injury clients.”

🔷 Drafting newsletters that aren’t immediately trashed
Use case: Draft a newsletter to keep clients informed about legal trends, firm updates, and relevant legal developments.
📥 Prompt: “Write a newsletter for a law firm specializing in employment law, including updates on recent case law, new regulations, and firm news.”

🔷 Because your blog strategy can’t just be ‘we should have a blog’
Use case: Generate blog topics and structured outlines for blog posts.
📥 Prompt: “Suggest blog post ideas for a law firm focusing on immigration law, including outlines for each post.”

🔷 Bonus tip: Need help prepping for arbitration?
Use case: See the American Arbitration Association’s AAAi Chatbook here for arbitration case prep and presentation.
📥 This tool allows you to ask questions and get quick, tailored answers at every stage—from drafting clauses to post-award steps. (It’s free. It’s fast. And it beats reinventing the wheel.)

There you have it – 30 AI use cases for legal! Next week, I’ll cover the other 30 use cases that Niki shared on behalf of her colleague Greg Siskind!

So, what do you think? What do you think of these 30 AI use cases for legal? Which ones are most useful to you? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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