Free AI Resources for Lawyers

I run 10 law firms on AI systems instead of my own hours. This is the working catalog: the tools, prompts, MCPs, and builds my firms use daily. One new resource publishes every day.

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40 published 0 scheduled Updated August 22, 2026

Getting started

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§ 01 AI for Lawyers: The Roadmap I Wish Existed When I Started Where to start with AI as a lawyer or law firm owner. The exact order to adopt tools, from first chatbot to full AI systems, from someone running 10 firms on them. 8 min § 31 Can Lawyers Use AI? The Ethics Rules, Plainly Explained AI ethics for lawyers, explained plainly: ABA Formal Opinion 512, the five duties that apply, the sanctions cases, and how to write a firm AI policy. 9 min § 32 AI for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers: The $100/Month Stack AI for solo lawyers costs about $100 a month for a stack that replaces a receptionist, a typist, and most drafting time. Here is exactly what to buy first. 8 min

AI assistants

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§ 02 Claude for Lawyers: The Complete Guide to My Daily Driver Claude for lawyers: why it's my daily driver across 10 law firms. Projects, Artifacts, model choices, pricing, and confidentiality, from real firm use. 8 min § 03 ChatGPT for Lawyers: What It's Actually Good At ChatGPT for lawyers, honestly assessed. What it does well, what to avoid, and how to set it up for legal work, from a lawyer who runs 10 law firms on AI. 7 min § 09 NotebookLM for Lawyers: Your Case File, Now Conversational NotebookLM for lawyers: upload a case file and ask it questions with citations. What Google's free research tool does, its limits, and how to start today. 7 min § 25 Perplexity for Lawyers: Research With Receipts How lawyers use Perplexity: an answer engine that cites every claim. Real uses, the one rule that never bends, and how it compares to Claude and ChatGPT. 6 min

Prompts

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§ 04 AI Prompts for Lawyers: The Library My Firms Run On AI prompts for lawyers you can copy today: intake summaries, demand letters, client emails, deposition prep, and more, from the library running 10 law firms. 9 min

Automation

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§ 05 Claude Code for Lawyers: Build Your Own Legal Software Claude Code for lawyers, explained by a firm owner who built his own dashboards, document review, and demand letter tools without writing a line of code. 8 min § 06 MCPs for Lawyers: Connect AI to Every System Your Firm Runs MCP for lawyers, explained: the free connectors that plug Claude into Gmail, Drive, Slack, your CRM, and Clio, with setup steps that take under 15 minutes. 8 min § 07 Clio MCP: Connect Claude to Clio in 20 Minutes Clio MCP lets Claude read your matters, contacts, tasks, and billing. Step-by-step setup with the free open-source clio-mcp server, done in about 20 minutes. 6 min § 15 The 5 AI Agents Every Law Firm Should Build First AI agents for law firms: the 5 agents to build first, in order, from a lawyer running 10 firms on them. Intake, drafting, marketing, ops, and strategy. 9 min § 22 Custom GPTs for Lawyers: Build Your Firm's Assistant in 30 Minutes How to build a custom GPT for your law firm in 30 minutes: a copyable instructions template, the five GPTs to build first, and the confidentiality rule. 7 min § 24 Zapier for Law Firms: 10 Automations to Build This Month The 10 Zapier automations every law firm should build first, from missed-call text-backs to review requests, by a lawyer running 10 automation-first firms. 8 min § 40 Build vs Buy: When to Stop Renting Legal Software Build legal software with AI or keep buying it? Build when the workflow is yours and repeats. Buy when it touches client money or compliance. Full framework. 8 min

Learning

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§ 08 Best AI YouTube Channels for Lawyers (Ranked) AI YouTube channels for lawyers, ranked. The 10 channels I actually watch to run 10 law firms, what each is best for, and how to watch without wasting time. 7 min

Legal AI tools

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§ 10 Best AI Legal Research Tools: An Honest Tiering AI legal research tools, tiered honestly: CoCounsel, Lexis+ AI, Westlaw Precision, Lex Machina, plus the budget path small firms should actually take first. 8 min § 12 AI Demand Letter Tools: Buy One or Build Your Own AI demand letter tools compared: EvenUp, Clearbrief, Filevine, and the build-your-own path I took at my lemon law firm. What they cost and who each fits. 8 min § 13 AI Contract Review & Drafting Tools Compared AI contract review tools compared: Spellbook, Luminance, Kira, Robin AI, and the Claude prompt that does the same job for $20. Who actually needs which tool. 8 min § 27 Legal Document Automation: Templates That Fill Themselves The document automation tools compared (Gavel, Clio Draft, Woodpecker, Autocrat, HotDocs), plus how to build your own generator with Claude Code instead. 7 min § 28 CoCounsel Review: Is Thomson Reuters' AI Worth It? CoCounsel review from a lawyer who owns 10 firms: what Thomson Reuters' AI assistant actually does, roughly what it costs, and which firms should skip it. 7 min § 33 AI Deposition Prep: Outlines, Impeachment, and Summaries AI deposition prep done right: build the question outline from the record, hunt contradictions across the file, summarize transcripts, prep your witness. 8 min § 34 AI Document Review: From Case Files to Medical Records AI document review: upload a case file and get a chronology, key facts, and a list of what's missing. The three tiers, the tools, and how I built my own. 8 min § 35 Harvey AI Review: What It Is and Who It's Actually For Harvey AI is enterprise legal AI sold by annual contract to large firms. An honest review of what it does, what it costs, and why most solos should skip it. 7 min

Intake

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§ 11 AI Intake for Law Firms: Never Miss Another Lead AI intake for law firms, explained by the owner of a national firm built around intake: 24/7 AI answering, lead scoring, follow-up automation, and costs. 8 min § 16 Voice AI for Law Firms: Phone Calls Without Phone Staff Voice AI for law firms now answers calls that sound fully human. What it handles, what it costs, which platforms work, and exactly how to start without risk. 8 min

Productivity

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§ 14 Best AI Notetakers for Lawyers: Fathom vs Fireflies vs Otter vs Plaud AI notetaker for lawyers compared: Fathom, Fireflies, Otter, and Plaud, with consent laws, privilege risks, and pricing, from someone running 10 firms. 7 min § 23 AI Email for Lawyers: Get Out of Your Inbox Lawyers lose 2 to 3 hours a day to email, most of it triage. How I cleared mine with Claude plus Gmail MCP, and how Shortwave, Superhuman, and Gemini compare. 7 min § 26 AI Transcription for Lawyers: Fast, Cheap, and Confidential AI transcription went from $1.50 a minute to nearly free. Which tools keep privileged audio on your own computer, what each costs, and when to pay a human. 7 min § 29 Best Chrome Extensions for Lawyers (AI and Otherwise) The 10 Chrome extensions installed in my actual browser, ranked. AI writing tools, SOP builders, and the security rules for machines that touch client data. 6 min § 30 AI Dictation for Lawyers: Talk 3x Faster Than You Type Lawyers speak 150 words a minute and type 40. The AI dictation tools worth paying for, the Claude workflow that formats your rambling, and a 10-minute setup. 6 min

Marketing

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§ 17 HeyGen for Lawyers: Record Once, Make Video Forever HeyGen for lawyers: record a few minutes of footage once and generate client videos, FAQs, and ads from typed scripts. Pricing, ethics, and disclosure rules. 7 min § 18 ElevenLabs for Lawyers: Your Voice, Cloned and Working ElevenLabs for lawyers: how to clone your voice for law firm ad voiceovers, IVR audio, and client explainers, from a firm owner who skips the studio entirely. 7 min § 19 AI Images for Law Firms: Ad Creative Without a Designer AI images for law firm ad creative: how my firms use GPT Image, Nano Banana, and Midjourney to test 10 ad variants in the time a designer used to make 2. 7 min § 20 AI Video Ads for Lawyers: Veo, Sora & the New Ad Stack AI video ads for lawyers: how my firms use Veo, Sora, Kling, and Higgsfield to test 20 video variants a month without a crew, a studio, or a $5K budget. 8 min § 21 Descript for Lawyers: Edit Video by Editing Text Descript for lawyers: edit video by deleting text from the transcript. How law firms turn one webinar into 10 clips, fix bad audio, and what it costs. 6 min § 38 AI SEO for Law Firms: Rank on Google and Get Cited by ChatGPT AI SEO for law firms is two games now: ranking in Google and getting quoted by ChatGPT. The exact playbook I use to win both, from a firm ranking nationally. 9 min § 39 AI Facebook Ads for Law Firms: The Creative Volume Game Facebook ads for law firms are won on creative volume, not targeting. How AI lets a firm test 20 creatives a month, plus the compliance and measurement rules. 9 min

Practice management

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§ 36 AI Time Tracking and Billing: Stop Losing Billable Hours AI time tracking for lawyers, explained: passive capture tools that log your work automatically, prompts that write defensible entries, and the Rule 1.5 limits. 7 min § 37 AI in Practice Management Software: Clio Duo, MyCase IQ & More AI practice management software compared: Clio Duo, MyCase IQ, Filevine, Smokeball, Lawmatics, and why connecting Claude to your current system usually wins. 7 min