🤖 3 AI prompting tips for in-house legal work you NEED to know

If you’re struggling with AI prompts for your in-house legal work, and you want to master the art of prompting like a pro, READ ON for my top 3 AI prompting tips 👇

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NOW, for my top 3 AI prompting tips:

1️⃣ Treat the AI like a super eager legal intern (a smart, fast one)
AI works for you, and it’s trained on the entire internet. When I started prompting, I kept thinking that I needed to impress it, or get its approval to get the right answer (or the approval of the AI overlords…), but actually, it’s the other way round.

Now every time I sit down to prompt, I imagine I’m instructing a new colleague or someone junior.

You get a better output if you:

• Give it clear, detailed instructions.

• Make sure it constantly seeks your approval (a little brevity here - only bad managers treat interns and junior associates that way!)

• Are specific: the more specific you are, the better its output.

2️⃣ Use a dedicated legal AI tool
General AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude are great while you're getting started and building up your confidence with AI, but they often fall short for legal-specific tasks because they are not designed with in-house legal use cases in mind.

They refuse to give legal advice, and struggle with web research and complex document analysis.

✨ PRO TIP: For precise, detailed work, skip to a higher level and use tools actually designed for in-house legal use cases (Check out Wordsmith AI)!

3️⃣ Always give context
AI is great at impersonating, and performs best when it understands the bigger picture. Provide as much detail as possible:

• Who you are

• Your company’s goals

• Why the task matters

The content needs to be clear, actionable, and easy to understand. As with tip 1, this is what you would do with a new colleague or intern/junior associate, and AI should be treated with the same point in mind.

REMEMBER: Like most things in life, you get out what you put in. The better your prompts, the better the AI’s output. 

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