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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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60 published 0 scheduled Updated October 7, 2026

Getting started

5 entries
§ 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 § 50 The AI Vendor Security Checklist for Law Firms Before client data touches an AI tool: the nine questions to ask every vendor, what the answers should be, and why the consumer tier is usually the wrong tier. 7 min § 60 The Autonomous Law Firm: What 60 Days of This Adds Up To The through-line across every resource here: build systems that run without you, keep judgment human, and measure what happens. How the pieces fit together. 8 min

AI assistants

7 entries
§ 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 § 42 Claude Projects for Lawyers: Your Firm's Knowledge, Reused Claude Projects let you load your templates, past filings, and firm voice once and reuse them on every task. Setup, the six Projects worth building, and limits. 7 min § 48 Google Gemini for Lawyers: Where It Beats Claude and ChatGPT Gemini for lawyers, assessed honestly: the Workspace integration and long-document handling are real advantages, the legal drafting is not its strength. 7 min § 59 Claude vs ChatGPT for Lawyers: Which One, For What A practical comparison for law firms: drafting quality, long documents, building firm tools, and why many firms end up paying for both. 7 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

10 entries
§ 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 § 45 Using AI to Write SOPs Your Staff Will Actually Follow Turn how your firm works into written SOPs using AI: record the person doing the task, transcribe, draft, and have them correct it. A weekend for a whole department. 7 min § 49 MCP Servers Worth Running at a Law Firm Beyond Clio: the MCP servers that actually earn their place in a law firm, what each one unlocks, and the security rules to set before you connect anything. 8 min § 54 Referral Tracking for Law Firms: Stop Losing Cases You Sent Out If your firm refers cases out, the referral is an asset you rarely track. How to build a referral pipeline with AI so fees do not quietly disappear. 7 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

11 entries
§ 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 Software: Platforms Compared, Plus Build Your Own AI demand letter software compared: EvenUp, Clearbrief, Filevine, ProPlaintiff. Real turnaround times, what each costs, and the build-your-own path I took. 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 § 41 AI Medical Record Review: What It Catches and What It Misses AI medical record review for plaintiff firms: how chronology building actually works, where it invents things, and the verification step that protects the file. 8 min § 43 Westlaw Precision AI vs Lexis+ AI: An Honest Comparison Westlaw Precision AI and Lexis+ AI compared on answer quality, citation reliability, pricing shape, and which one fits a small firm versus a litigation shop. 8 min § 52 AI Translation for Law Firms: Where It Works and Where It Cannot AI translation for client intake, documents, and letters in a bilingual practice: what is reliable, what needs a certified human, and how to run a bilingual firm. 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 § 46 Speed to Lead: The Cheapest Fix in Law Firm Marketing Most firms lose signed cases to slow follow-up, not bad ads. How to measure your real contact rate, what response time to target, and how to automate the first touch. 7 min

Productivity

6 entries
§ 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 § 57 AI Legal Writing: Editing Is Where the Value Is Most lawyers use AI to generate legal writing and get mediocre results. Using it to edit your own drafts is where the quality gain actually shows up. 7 min

Marketing

9 entries
§ 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 § 56 Getting More Google Reviews Without Breaking the Rules Reviews drive local legal search more than almost anything. How to systematize asking, respond to reviews without waiving confidentiality, and what never to automate. 7 min § 58 One Video, Twenty Posts: Content Repurposing for Lawyers Lawyers do not have time to create content daily. Record once a month and use AI to turn each session into weeks of posts, emails, and articles in your voice. 7 min

Practice management

7 entries
§ 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 § 44 Build a Law Firm KPI Dashboard With AI in a Weekend The seven numbers a law firm owner should see daily, why practice management reports fail at it, and how to build a real dashboard with AI and no developer. 8 min § 47 AI Client Updates: Fixing the Complaint Every Firm Gets Clients rarely complain about outcomes, they complain about silence. How to automate proactive case status updates without sounding like a robot wrote them. 7 min § 51 AI in Law Firm Hiring: Screening, Not Deciding How to use AI to cut hiring time at a law firm: job posts, resume screening against your real criteria, structured interview questions, and the legal limits to respect. 7 min § 53 Why I Do Not Let AI Calculate Court Deadlines AI is wrong often enough on deadline computation to be dangerous. What to use instead, and where AI does help with docketing without touching the calculation. 6 min § 55 Forecasting Cash at a Contingency Firm Without a CFO Contingency firms have lumpy, unpredictable revenue. How to build a settlement-based cash forecast with AI so payroll is never a surprise. 7 min