# AI for Lawyers by Sam Mollaei (ai.tovlaw.com)

> Free AI resources for lawyers and law firm owners, published one per day by
> Sam Mollaei, Esq., who owns and operates 10 law firms run on AI systems.
> Every resource documents a tool, prompt library, MCP, or system his firms
> use in production. All content is free to read and cite with attribution.

## Resources

- [AI for Lawyers: The Roadmap I Wish Existed When I Started](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-for-lawyers-roadmap): 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.
- [Claude for Lawyers: The Complete Guide to My Daily Driver](https://ai.tovlaw.com/claude-for-lawyers): Claude for lawyers: why it's my daily driver across 10 law firms. Projects, Artifacts, model choices, pricing, and confidentiality, from real firm use.
- [ChatGPT for Lawyers: What It's Actually Good At](https://ai.tovlaw.com/chatgpt-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI Prompts for Lawyers: The Library My Firms Run On](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-prompts-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Claude Code for Lawyers: Build Your Own Legal Software](https://ai.tovlaw.com/claude-code-for-lawyers): 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.
- [MCPs for Lawyers: Connect AI to Every System Your Firm Runs](https://ai.tovlaw.com/mcp-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Clio MCP: Connect Claude to Clio in 20 Minutes](https://ai.tovlaw.com/clio-mcp): 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.
- [Best AI YouTube Channels for Lawyers (Ranked)](https://ai.tovlaw.com/best-ai-youtube-channels-for-lawyers): 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.
- [NotebookLM for Lawyers: Your Case File, Now Conversational](https://ai.tovlaw.com/notebooklm-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Best AI Legal Research Tools: An Honest Tiering](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-legal-research-tools): AI legal research tools, tiered honestly: CoCounsel, Lexis+ AI, Westlaw Precision, Lex Machina, plus the budget path small firms should actually take first.
- [AI Intake for Law Firms: Never Miss Another Lead](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-intake-for-law-firms): 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.
- [AI Demand Letter Tools: Buy One or Build Your Own](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-demand-letter-tools): 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.
- [AI Contract Review & Drafting Tools Compared](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-contract-drafting-tools): 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.
- [Best AI Notetakers for Lawyers: Fathom vs Fireflies vs Otter vs Plaud](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-notetakers-for-lawyers): AI notetaker for lawyers compared: Fathom, Fireflies, Otter, and Plaud, with consent laws, privilege risks, and pricing, from someone running 10 firms.
- [The 5 AI Agents Every Law Firm Should Build First](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-agents-for-law-firms): 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.
- [Voice AI for Law Firms: Phone Calls Without Phone Staff](https://ai.tovlaw.com/voice-ai-for-law-firms): 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.
- [HeyGen for Lawyers: Record Once, Make Video Forever](https://ai.tovlaw.com/heygen-for-lawyers): 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.
- [ElevenLabs for Lawyers: Your Voice, Cloned and Working](https://ai.tovlaw.com/elevenlabs-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI Images for Law Firms: Ad Creative Without a Designer](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-images-for-law-firms): 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.
- [AI Video Ads for Lawyers: Veo, Sora & the New Ad Stack](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-video-ads-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Descript for Lawyers: Edit Video by Editing Text](https://ai.tovlaw.com/descript-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Custom GPTs for Lawyers: Build Your Firm's Assistant in 30 Minutes](https://ai.tovlaw.com/custom-gpts-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI Email for Lawyers: Get Out of Your Inbox](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-email-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Zapier for Law Firms: 10 Automations to Build This Month](https://ai.tovlaw.com/zapier-for-law-firms): 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.
- [Perplexity for Lawyers: Research With Receipts](https://ai.tovlaw.com/perplexity-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI Transcription for Lawyers: Fast, Cheap, and Confidential](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-transcription-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Legal Document Automation: Templates That Fill Themselves](https://ai.tovlaw.com/legal-document-automation): The document automation tools compared (Gavel, Clio Draft, Woodpecker, Autocrat, HotDocs), plus how to build your own generator with Claude Code instead.
- [CoCounsel Review: Is Thomson Reuters' AI Worth It?](https://ai.tovlaw.com/cocounsel-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Best Chrome Extensions for Lawyers (AI and Otherwise)](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-chrome-extensions-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI Dictation for Lawyers: Talk 3x Faster Than You Type](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-dictation-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Can Lawyers Use AI? The Ethics Rules, Plainly Explained](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-ethics-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI for Solo and Small Firm Lawyers: The $100/Month Stack](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-for-solo-lawyers): 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.
- [AI Deposition Prep: Outlines, Impeachment, and Summaries](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-deposition-prep): AI deposition prep done right: build the question outline from the record, hunt contradictions across the file, summarize transcripts, prep your witness.
- [AI Document Review: From Case Files to Medical Records](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-document-review): 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.
- [Harvey AI Review: What It Is and Who It's Actually For](https://ai.tovlaw.com/harvey-ai-review): 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.
- [AI Time Tracking and Billing: Stop Losing Billable Hours](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-billing-for-lawyers): 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.
- [AI in Practice Management Software: Clio Duo, MyCase IQ & More](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-practice-management): AI practice management software compared: Clio Duo, MyCase IQ, Filevine, Smokeball, Lawmatics, and why connecting Claude to your current system usually wins.
- [AI SEO for Law Firms: Rank on Google and Get Cited by ChatGPT](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-seo-for-law-firms): 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.
- [AI Facebook Ads for Law Firms: The Creative Volume Game](https://ai.tovlaw.com/ai-facebook-ads-for-lawyers): 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.
- [Build vs Buy: When to Stop Renting Legal Software](https://ai.tovlaw.com/build-vs-buy-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.

## Pages

- [All resources](https://ai.tovlaw.com/): full catalog, updated daily
- [About](https://ai.tovlaw.com/about): who Sam Mollaei is and why this is free