By LEAP | AAML New Jersey Silver Sponsor
For family law firms, legal drafting can make up a significant portion of the daily workload. Whether you’re preparing discovery requests, drafting divorce complaints, or assembling financial disclosures, these tasks may consume more of your time than you’d prefer—time that could otherwise be spent advising clients, preparing for hearings, or focusing on long-term firm development.
Thankfully, advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) are making it easier for family law firms to reclaim time. AI drafting tools can help you produce documents more efficiently while maintaining full control over the finished product. When these drafting tools also integrate with your practice management system, they can further enhance speed and accuracy by drawing from details stored in your matters.
As with any use of AI, the quality of your instructions influences the quality of the output. A detailed, thoughtfully structured prompt can help guide the AI toward producing drafts that are more aligned with the desired result and tailored to the specifics of your case.
Why Use AI Prompts in My Drafting Process?
Legal AI prompts are carefully written instructions developed to help AI produce well structured, matter-specific content. By providing key details, such as formatting expectations, tone, jurisdiction, and practice area, you can help the AI produce output that is more precise, structured, and easier to refine into your desired final draft.
Even when AI delivers a strong starting point, careful review is essential. As an attorney, you are fully responsible for the accuracy, quality, and compliance of every document you create.
Writing and Using AI Prompts for Drafting
Here are some best practices for creating and using AI prompts:
- Provide clear direction: Define the purpose of the prompt, key sections, tone, and jurisdictional rules. More detail will generally lead to more complete and reliable output.
- Fine-tune as needed: Think of AI-assisted drafting as a collaborative conversation. Chat with the AI tool to ask for adjustments, more context, or alternative versions until the draft aligns with your expectations.
- Create a template library: If you develop a prompt that produces strong results, save it as a template. Over time, you’ll build a reliable library of AI prompts tailored to your firm’s needs.
Pre-Built AI Prompt Templates and Libraries
While developing your own AI prompts is valuable, you can save even more time by using pre-built prompt templates. Templates that have been designed by family law experts can provide an extra level of reliability.
Prompt templates can support drafting for documents such as:
- Certification of insurance coverage
- Notice of motion or proposed form of order
- Schedule of assets and liabilities
- Summaries of mediation, case history, child care expenses, and more
- Divorce finalization letters
Strengthen Your Firm’s Drafting with AI Prompts
LEAP’s legal practice management platform brings case management, document automation, billing, accounting, and award-winning AI together in one system. Pre-built family law matter types, automated NJ forms and templates, and a curated library of AI prompts tailored to family law practice can support efficiency at your firm.
LEAP also offers a customizable Case Information Statement (CIS) with built-in calculators, split billing capabilities, secure document sharing, and more. Visit LEAP for New Jersey Family Law to learn more about our intelligent tools that can transform your day-to-day practice and help drive long-term success.
By: Aislinn Koch
Aislinn Koch is a family lawyer on the Content Development Team for LEAP Legal Software US. She began her legal career as a clerk for a Judge in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Part. She then went on to practice law at prestigious family law firms throughout the state of New Jersey. Aislinn is passionate about helping lawyers leverage technology to streamline their practices, boost efficiency, and stay organized.
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