AI won’t replace you. But a lawyer using AI will.

Legal AI is everywhere right now. It feels a bit like everyone is suddenly talking about legal AI, and how it’s going to change your life. Of course, no one is quite sure how. And like all hype, it’s all a bit noisy.
So let’s take a step back from the hype, and focus on some facts.
Here’s the first fact.

AI won’t replace you. But a lawyer using AI will.

Legal AI isn’t here to replace lawyers. Rather, it presents a profound opportunity for lawyers to enhance their practice and achieve superior results. “Legal AI is changing our focus from preparing the first draft of correspondence and court documents to one of review,” explained Jenna Downy, a family lawyer who helped train LawY. “This means every lawyer, from junior lawyers, senior associates, to partners, can benefit from AI.” Legal AI won’t substitute the profoundly human skill of providing legal advice. Rather, it accelerates the process of research, first drafts and finding information in a way we’ve never seen before. In this article, we’ll explore how LEAP’s suite of legal AI empowers you with three key built-in AI features, all accessible within your existing subscription:

LawY: Your trusted AI legal assistant with lawyer verification.
MatterAI: Matter-specific AI, allowing you to create timelines and draft letters, turning the work of days into seconds.
Matter Activity Recording (MAR): Effortlessly record your time with AI in the background of your work, allowing you to focus more on your clients.

By embracing these intelligent tools, you can:

Streamline legal research and analysis.
Boost efficiency and productivity.
Ensure accurate timekeeping and billing.
Ultimately, deliver exceptional service to your clients, to more clients, and make more money.

Our legal AI shifts the focus from preparing a first draft of correspondence and court documents, empowering every lawyer – even more junior lawyers – to become reviewers rather than first drafters. As many lawyers know, preparing the first draft is often the hardest part. And finding time that you forgot to record can lead to leakage in your billables, meaning the work you’ve done isn’t accurately reflected in your timesheets. Our legal AI changes all of this. Because it was developed within LEAP, we’re better positioned to train AI to adopt the safeguards you require to protect confidentiality and minimise the issues AI experiences as it learns and grows.

LawY – Your trusted AI legal assistant

LawY is the only AI legal assistant that generates answers to your legal questions from an expanding legal knowledge base, where answers are then verified by real, qualified lawyers. This blend of cutting-edge AI technology and human expertise empowers you with accurate answers you can trust.

Expert human verification

LawY understands the paramount importance of accuracy in the legal profession. Responses to legal questions asked with LawY undergo meticulous verification by real, qualified lawyers. Our unique two-step process seamlessly combines the efficiency of technology with the precision of human expertise, ensuring that verified answers meet the highest standards in legal accuracy.

Boost your firm’s productivity

LawY serves as a dynamic efficiency booster for your law firm, designed to alleviate administrative and research burdens. Experience a significant reduction in time-consuming tasks such as reviewing case law or legislation, drafting affidavits, document drafting, proofreading, grammar checking, summarising information or crafting marketing pieces. This multifaceted assistance streamlines your workload, allowing you to focus on what you do best: delivering exceptional legal services to your clients.

Effortless document drafting

LawY simplifies and expediates your workflow by assisting you in drafting letters, creating precedent orders, and preparing court documents. Simply instruct LawY on the document you require, and you will receive a verified response that can be tailored by you for use in your document. This not only saves you valuable time but also ensures precision in every document.

LawY is designed to answer legal questions

LawY is designed to specifically answer legal questions from its continuously expanding, proprietary knowledge base. Users can input their legal questions, and the AI quickly generates a preliminary answer. However, what truly sets LawY apart is the verification process. Any AI-generated answer to a legal question is reviewed and verified by an expert local lawyer to ensure accuracy. LawY is the only verified legal AI product of its kind.

Find out more at leap.com.au/lawy

MatterAI: Unearthing Answers Within Your LEAP Matters

Matter AI allows you to generate answers to questions about your specific matters in LEAP.

This innovative AI feature allows you to ask any questions regarding your matters in LEAP. MatterAI then intelligently scans the associated documents and correspondence and delivers concise summaries tailored to your specific inquiry.

You can also choose from suggested questions. Questions are based on the matter type and the correspondence within your matter.

Consider a Property Law matter. You might ask: “What is the property the client is intending to purchase?”

MatterAI will promptly analyse the relevant documents within your LEAP matter and provide a clear explanation of the event, along with references to the specific documents referenced. For example, Matter AI referenced the File Cover Sheet – Purchase of Real Property, and the Settlement Adjustment Sheet, to respond to the questions above.

As solicitors, you often work with barristers who love a good timeline. This task could often take hours, as it involves reviewing all the correspondence to compile a chronological timeline. Matter AI can do this in seconds.

Whether you have 10 docs or 10,000 docs, Matter AI can produce a response within seconds. This significantly reduces research time and allows you to focus on providing exceptional legal counsel to your clients.

Matter AI will soon be available across all of your matter types in LEAP.

Matter Activity Recording: AI to effortlessly record time and increase revenue

Stop wasting valuable time manually recording your billable hours. Matter Activity Recording (MAR) acts as your invisible assistant, automatically capturing your activity in the background as you work within LEAP. This includes:

Emailing: Drafting, sending, and reviewing emails.
Document Drafting & Management: Creating, editing, and working with legal documents.
Research: Utilising LEAP’s built-in research tools.
Mobile App Activity: Making calls, sending texts, and scanning documents using the LEAP mobile app.
Fixed Fee Costs Comparison: Ensure you accurately charge for fixed fee work by recording your billable activities against fixed fee matters. This eliminates the guesswork from fixed fee quotes. With MAR, you can cost your fixed fee matters and charge your clients appropriately for the amount of work involved.

By leveraging the power of AI to record your time, you can ensure that all your billable hours are meticulously documented, eliminating the risk of missed entries and maximising your revenue potential.

Unleash the potential of LEAP’s Legal AI

LEAP’s legal AI was built with lawyers in mind. Here’s how you can benefit:

Enhanced Efficiency: Devote more time to providing strategic legal advice and client service by allowing AI to handle research and timekeeping tasks.
Improved Accuracy: LawY’s verified responses guarantee the reliability and credibility of the legal information you provide.
Increased Productivity: Find crucial details and complete tasks faster with MatterAI’s intelligent document analysis.
Make More Money: Capture all your billable hours automatically with Matter Activity Recording, so you can ensure accurate billing and ultimately, make more money.

AI is not a replacement for the expertise and judgment of a qualified lawyer. Instead, it’s a powerful tool that can augment your capabilities and transform the way you practice law. Embrace AI as your intelligent partner and unlock the full potential of LEAP. Start exploring these ground-breaking features today and witness the positive impact they can have on your practice and your clients’ success.