AI tools for lawyers search case law, statutes and a firm's own documents, summarize and compare documents, and draft or mark up contracts, briefs and other papers for a lawyer to review. Their answers cite sources, and those citations still need checking.
Will AI replace lawyers? A little. They score 72 out of 100 on our Still needs a humanOur headline score for each job, from 0 to 100. Higher is safer: AI can do less of the work, or does it less well.It combines how much of the job AI can do with how well AI does it compared with a qualified person, and it is always shown beside those answers.How the score works · More in the glossary scale, where higher is safer (Evidence gradeHow strong the proof is, from A to D. A is a blind, expert-marked test of AI against people; D means none yet.B is a test on closely related work; C is a benchmark with no human comparison.The four grades · More in the glossary D; could be ReplacedOur strict test: AI doing at least 90% of a job’s working time, as well as a person, with at least half of employers using it.Pages also say “largely automated” for the same test. It is not a prediction that the job ends.More in the glossary 2036–2049). See which tasks AI can do in this job.
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Researches legal, regulatory and tax questions with cited answers and drafts and reviews documents.
Runs legal research grounded in Westlaw and Practical Law, builds litigation briefs and drafts work product with linked citations.
Runs legal research on LexisNexis content, checks citations with Shepard's and drafts motions, briefs and contracts.
Answers research questions with a cited memo, runs 50-state surveys and reviews contracts for risks.
Drafts clauses and agreements and redlines contracts inside Microsoft Word, using the team's own playbooks.
Manages contracts from drafting to signature and storage, with an AI assistant that drafts and reviews them.
Runs matters, billing and calendars with AI that drafts invoices and pulls deadlines from court documents; Clio Work adds legal research.