Founding Partner of Thelema Coaching for Lawyers. Lawyer, Coach and Legal Mentor. Professor at USP and Lecturer.
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The revolution is really coming to the legal industry.
For a long time, this market has been constrained by the need for intense manual work, leading to slow processes and high expenses.
However, in recent times, we are seeing initiatives that are appearing to change it.
The arrival of generative artificial intelligence, now accessible to everyone with ChatGPT, is bringing about an unprecedented transformation that is just beginning.
As a curiosity, Bill Gates said that this evolution of technology, like ChatGPT, is the most important innovation today.
And Jensen Huang, who founded NVIDIA in 1993, the company that set new standards in visual computing with interactive graphics on tablets, portable media players and workstations, said that we are living in the “Iphone of Artificial Intelligence Moment”.
This tool is just the beginning of many others that are being developed by Microsoft and Google, with immense sophistication and capacity to make the daily work of legal professionals easier and more efficient, helping them to carry out more tasks with less effort, increasing your productivity significantly.
Those who do not adopt these technologies risk being left behind, missing the opportunity to increase their efficiency and offer a better quality of service to their customers.
Therefore, it is imperative that lawyers begin to familiarize themselves with using them in their work to stay relevant and competitive.
And in this text, I want to talk a little about it, how ChatGPT can help you in your day-to-day advocacy.
First, it is important to keep in mind that the implementation of artificial intelligence in your daily life can be done in different ways, starting with trying it out in small tasks to assess its potential.
Some uses for ChatGPT are:
1. Facilitating legal language in complicated court decisions
Court decisions can be difficult to understand, even for people with a legal background.
ChatGPT can help simplify the text and make it easier to understand, especially for people who are not legal experts.
In addition, it can produce a summary of the court decision in accessible language, which can be useful for clients or partners of the law firm, as well as writing in blogs, posts or press releases.
2. Summarize extensive legal references to an adequate length
Lawyers constantly need to cite laws and regulations in their work, which can result in lengthy and complicated legal references.
ChatGPT can help summarize these references to an appropriate length, making the text clearer and easier to read.
In addition, it can help produce summaries, which can be useful for lawyers in legal proceedings, as well as helping to prevent plagiarism and maintain the original meaning of what was written.
3. Write the basis of contractual drafts
Drafting contracts can be a complex and time-consuming task.
ChatGPT can help speed up this process by producing the basis of contract drafts or clauses, which can help save time and increase the productivity of the law firm.
Lawyers can use these drafts as a starting point for drafting final contracts, customizing and adapting the text according to the needs of each client and specific situation.
4. Respond to daily office emails
Lawyers often receive and send a large amount of e-mail every day.
ChatGPT can be used to create personalized and more humanized emails, allowing attorneys to communicate more effectively and sensitively with their clients.
It can, for example, help to produce thank you emails after a successful meeting or negotiation, increasing customer satisfaction and the quality of the relationship with them.
5. Help in the preparation of simpler documents
The production of legal documents is a critical task in the routine of a law firm. Lawyers need to write clear and precise documents that comply with applicable legal standards and that are able to adequately represent their clients' interests.
ChatGPT can help lawyers in this task, offering text suggestions for the preparation of petitions, defenses, appeals and other legal documents. Through machine learning, ChatGPT can analyze a large volume of legal documents and offer suggestions for words, phrases and arguments that may be relevant to the production of the documents.
This functionality can help save time and increase law firm productivity, as attorneys can use ChatGPT suggestions as a starting point for drafting final documents.
6. Produce content
ChatGPT can be an excellent tool to help lawyers produce content for social networks, especially with regard to legal marketing.
As an artificial language model, it is capable of providing ideas and insights that can help lawyers create engaging and relevant content for their target audience.
This can help them grow their online presence, establish their authority, and connect with their target audience in a meaningful way.
However, it is important to remember that ChatGPT should not be seen as a substitute for a lawyer's work.
Despite being a powerful tool, it is still necessary to have technical knowledge to verify the veracity of the generated responses.
It is important to be critical and carefully review the texts generated to ensure they are accurate and meet the needs of the case.
However, by using ChatGPT as an additional tool, lawyers can significantly increase their efficiency and productivity, which is a huge advantage in an increasingly competitive market.
Instead of spending hours writing and editing, lawyers can do it all faster, saving time for other important tasks, increasing their efficiency and productivity in their daily legal work.