You would have come across the term artificial intelligence (AI) a lot in recent times. It’s because AI is transforming most industries, and the legal sector is no exception. With the increasing prevalence of AI in the legal space, lawyers are operating like never before – turning to AI to automate traditionally time-consuming and repetitive tasks.
As demand for legal services rises, AI has become a game-changer, enhancing speed, accuracy, scalability, and efficiency while reducing costs and providing law firms with a competitive edge. By automating time-consuming tasks, AI enables lawyers to focus on higher-value work, which gives firms more time to expand their client base and ultimately boosts profitability.
LEAP Legal Software equips law firms with the tools needed to stay competitive. With more than 30 years of innovation, law firms using LEAP enjoy all the benefits of a state-of-the-art practice management system, as well as legal accounting, document automation, and legal AI – all in one integrated, intelligent solution.
By developing a fully integrated suite of premium legal AI tools, LEAP is determined to empower lawyers to achieve greater productivity and precision in their work by complimenting human expertise with advanced AI technology.
AI-powered prompt templates for affidavit drafting
One area undergoing significant transformation is affidavit drafting, a typically time-consuming task for those in the profession. It is now streamlined with the power of AI.
The latest addition to the LEAP AI suite, the development of a library of AI Prompt Templates, will enable users to quickly generate high-quality, matter-specific first drafts in a fraction of the time.
So, how does it work?
LEAP’s AI Prompt Templates revolutionise affidavit drafting, making it faster and more efficient than before. Users can currently access a library of more than 35 prompts, each tailored to produce the first draft of an affidavit to support an application for a particular order or suite of orders. After selecting the appropriate prompt, a new document is produced by Matter AI for Word technology, where the AI Prompt Template instructs Matter AI on the specific information needed from the client’s matter to populate the document.
Lawyers can then chat and interact with the document they’re working on to refine and tailor it to meet the unique needs of their client. Additionally, Matter AI for Word can automatically reference annexures in the affidavit, create an index of annexures and annexure notes.
Built on structured best-practice templates, the AI ensures consistent formatting and includes LEAP Fields for essential details, significantly reducing the risk of relevant omissions.
This dynamic combination of AI Prompts and lawyer expertise delivers precise, customised first drafts of Affidavits in a fraction of the time the process would usually take by manual extraction of information from the client’s file.
Created by experienced lawyers
Former Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia Justice, the Honourable Garry Watts AM, is playing a pivotal role in creating LEAP’s AI Prompt templates. He assists the LEAP Family Law team, which includes family lawyers, in writing the AI Prompts.
“We are developing prompt templates, so that the lawyer does not start with a blank page. Knowing what orders are being sought, the thinking has already been done to identify the issues and the headings necessary to ensure all the evidence relevant to the orders sought is in the affidavit,” the former Justice said.
Drawing on his extensive judicial experience and decades as a practising family lawyer, His Honour brings deep legal expertise to the ongoing project of developing AI Prompts.
“An AI prompt template offers the promise to dramatically shorten the time needed to produce the first draft of an affidavit by drawing from the information captured on the client’s file and by creating placeholders for evidence that still needs to be gathered,” he said.
Leading AI innovation in law
LEAP offers a fully integrated suite of premium legal AI tools, carefully curated to meet the unique needs of law firms. Included in the LEAP subscription at no extra cost, these AI solutions are built with lawyers in mind, knowing which parts of legal work can be made more efficient, from research to matter analysis and drafting, to allow you more time to focus on high-value work that requires your expertise and judgment.
All AI tools are built to the same high-security standards upheld by LEAP, and you can rely on LEAP to provide secure, efficient, and reliable, purpose-built legal AI that supports your firm’s success.
“The lawyer’s hands-on role remains critical in rigorously reviewing the draft, which AI has constructed. The focus is on fact-checking, admissibility and ensuring that the parts of the affidavit, that require the deponent’s voice to shine through, are in an appropriate tone,” His Honour said.
As AI becomes an essential part of the legal landscape, legal professionals must navigate the complexities of AI and use it as a tool to support their work while still relying on their own expertise and judgment. By adopting AI thoughtfully and responsibly, both lawyers and their clients confidently reap its benefits.
LEAP is fully compliant with mandated FCFCOA guidelines and awaits the FCFCOA’s final decision on the use of AI in producing specific family law documents.
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