There was a time when gathering information to make an informed argument, speech, or plea could take days, weeks, or even years. Imagine scanning through tomes, web pages, encyclopedias, and more to find the information you need. 

Now imagine this information being available with the click of a button, and even sorted by the most relevant or important point for easy use. That’s the power of artificial intelligence. 

AI can help people throughout the workforce procure more information, faster. In the legal field, it can save you time by helping you conduct research, organize your thoughts, and draft legal documents quickly and easily. 

Let’s explore some of the top AI tools for lawyers and how they can help your office optimize and automate its legal processes. 

1. Rev VoiceHub

As a lawyer, you most likely do a lot of meeting with and talking to people, from initial client interfaces to go over their needs, to interviews and more. Therefore, a good AI for lawyers will have the ability to take those important conversations, transcribe them, and pick out the most important parts. Rev’s VoiceHub can do just that.

Rev’s AI can transcribe your conversation, highlight important parts, and present you with easy-to-edit notes. This can help you keep track of your case, find important snippets for discussion, and organize your thoughts — all with the click of a button. 

• Cost: Tiered pricing starting at a limited free tier. 
• What Makes It Great: VoiceHub can help you easily sift through the many conversations you have per day and decide what is most important.

2. Clio Duo

Clio Duo is specifically a legal AI chatbot, so it’s a great choice for lawyers because it knows exactly what lawyers need. Clio provides many tools that will be useful for lawyers, like task management services, which help you pick out what you should prioritize from your daily tasks, reminders for payment and task deadlines, and simple summaries of legal documents. Having this information automatically provided can make your busy day a lot simpler. 

• Cost: Tiered pricing starting at $39 per user, per month. 
• What Makes It Great: Clio Duo knows exactly what lawyers need, so it can provide personalized recommendations and information that’s specific to the legal field.

3. Smith.ai 

Customer service is important for any business; while a lawyer’s office might not seem like a cut-and-dry customer service position, you still need to have great personal skills to make sure the people you’re representing or providing legal advice feel heard and taken care of. Smith.ai fields calls with artificial intelligence and connects them to a human agent, so you can keep focusing on everything else on your plate. 

• Cost: Tiered pricing starting at $97.50 per month.
• What Makes It Great: AI scans calls and customer needs, so they can be directed to the right place every time — a win for your productivity and for the customer’s happiness.

4. Claude AI

Claude functions similarly to ChatGPT or other AI-powered chatbots, but has an intentional focus on privacy, which makes it a great AI for legal purposes. As lawyers often deal with sensitive information, Claude’s AI won’t use any inputted information for training or other uses unless it gets permission from the user. 

• Cost: Tiered pricing starting at a limited free tier. 
• What Makes It Great: Claude’s multilingual processing can create or process content in different languages instantly. 

5. Gemini

Many of us go to Google at least once per day to look up anything from a recipe to a movie star’s film credits. So why not go to Google for your AI needs? 

Gemini is Google’s response to the AI fad. It’s an AI-powered bot that can respond to text queries with helpful information, using publicly-available information and search engine results. Therefore, it can be useful for legal research on local laws, regulations, history, etc., as it uses real-time information that is available online. 

• Cost: Tiered pricing starting at a limited free tier. 
• What Makes It Great: You can connect Gemini to your Google Workspace, and then you can ask it questions about things in your Drive, Gmail, etc.

6. ChatGPT

Even if you’re a casual user of AI, you’ve most likely heard of ChatGPT. ChatGPT is a chatbot that can generate text, code, and analyze text. As a lawyer, you can use ChatGPT as a free legal artificial intelligence tool to help generate clauses, contracts, or research quickly and efficiently. 

It is important to be cognizant of what information you feed the bot and to check its work, as it may be incorrect on some points. ChatGPT and other AI-powered bots learn from previously inputted data, so the data you input may be used to help it learn. It may also come to incorrect deductions from inputted data; therefore, it’s best practice to always double-check what it says. 

• Cost: Tiered pricing starting at a limited free tier. 
• What Makes It Great: ChatGPT is well-known, easy to access, and easy to use. There’s a reason why it’s one of the most widespread AI tools. 

7. Everlaw 

Everlaw is another AI program that was created for legal purposes. It is an e-discovery tool, which means it helps answer the who, what, where, and why of your case as you start to begin the research process. It also has a predictive feature that can help you easily locate the most crucial document by using your search history to predict what you’ll need next. 

• Cost: Flexible depending on need. 
• What Makes It Great: Everlaw’s trial preparation tools like sticky notes for internal commenting and predictive narrative creators to bolster your argument can help you get ready for your trial. 

8. Kira Systems

Kira Systems is a legal AI tailor-made for a smaller law firm. Its goal is to help firms that may not have as many hands on deck to streamline legal processes and make their workflow more efficient. Kira can analyze legal documents, highlight important insights, and help draft contracts and other legal documents. 

• Cost: $159 per user, per month. 
• What Makes It Great: Kira operates within a high-security environment so sensitive documents remain just that — sensitive. 

Why It Pays to Integrate AI

As a lawyer, you might feel like you’re trying to stir 6 pans on the stove at once with all of the tasks you’re being asked to do. Don’t want to get burned? Integrate AI into your workflow. 

AI can help take care of tedious tasks like copy editing, customer service, transcribing, research, and more, so you can focus on the tasks that only a human can complete. That way you can produce quality work in a fraction of the time. 

AI Risks + Mitigation

At the end of the day, artificial intelligence is a computer program. So while it is fast, helpful, and efficient, it may not always be the most accurate or the most safe (and security, both physical and cyber, should be of the utmost priority for law firms.) 

Some AI risks of note include: 

• Privacy concerns
• Biased output 
• Lack of transparency

Many AI-powered engines (including Rev) are working to mitigate these concerns and make following AI regulation laws a priority. Here at Rev, for example, we employ an ironclad security system to keep your information private. 

In your office, you can mitigate AI concerns by reviewing AI output for accuracy, checking your AI provider’s safety features to make sure they’re up to par, and conducting adequate research about why exactly you want to use AI before jumping in. 

The Verdict Is In: AI Is King

Next time you find yourself needing to meet with a client, draft up a long document, or find out more about a specific topic, consider letting AI take the reins. Rev’s AI can provide you with lightning-fast meeting transcripts which not only provide a written transcript of important client meetings or interviews, but also point out the most crucial parts of it. 

‍Learn more about Rev’s VoiceHub.