It can organize a production, compare a contract against a playbook, build a research trail, and produce a first structured draft from the materials you provide. It cannot establish privilege, decide the law, assess a witness, or accept legal risk in your client’s name.
01
Matter intake should create an issue list before it creates a folder.
New instructions arrive as emails, calls, attachments, and incomplete accounts of what happened. An agent can turn that intake into a dated factual chronology, people and entities list, document request list, and open-issues memo without pretending to resolve the merits.
02
Contract review gets stronger when deviations are explicit.
The first useful question is often not whether a clause is good in the abstract.
It is how the language differs from the approved fallback, which deal point it affects, and what the other side has actually changed.
03
Research needs authorities, not a confident paragraph.
Use AI to construct a research path: issue, jurisdiction, date range, authority type, competing propositions, and gaps. Then verify every proposition against the operative primary authority and the facts of the specific matter.
04
A first draft should show its assumptions.
A draft letter, memo, or contract mark-up is useful when its sources, unresolved brackets, and factual assumptions remain visible. That gives the attorney a clear review surface instead of a polished document with invisible errors.