u/Mysterious_Chef7417

Hey,

I've been helping a lawyer friend look at different AI note takers and there are way more options than I expected. The problem isn't getting a transcript anymore. It's finding something that actually makes it easy to go back and find what a client said a month later. Tried Bluedot on my side and liked that it records without a bot joining the meeting, creates transcripts, summaries, action items, and keeps everything searchable afterward.

What are you all using? Are AI meeting notes good enough for legal work? Do you still end up writing everything yourself afterward? Any feedback is highly appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’m a PRC lawyer and the founder of China Legal Hub: www.chinalegalhub.com
It’s an AI-powered fixed-fee legal workflow for China-related matters. The current focus is helping overseas SMEs, ecommerce brands, designers, importers, and founders deal with supplier risks in China — especially NNN agreements, supplier background checks, contract review, and IP protection.
I’m not looking for someone to build a vague idea from zero. The website, legal workflow, and AI-assisted process are already live.
What I’m looking for is a business / GTM partner who understands one or more of these areas:
overseas SMEs, ecommerce brands, or DTC businesses
China sourcing, manufacturing, or supplier risks
B2B SaaS / legaltech sales
founder-led sales, partnerships, or community growth
I can handle the China law, legal product design, and delivery side. I’m looking for someone who can help with market feedback, customer interviews, outreach, partnerships, and early sales.
Ideally, we start with a small trial collaboration first. If there is real traction and good working chemistry, we can then discuss a longer-term partner or co-founder arrangement.
If this sounds relevant to your background, feel free to comment or DM me. I’d also be happy to hear feedback from people who have sold legaltech, B2B services, or China-related services to overseas businesses.

The talk here gets overwhelmed with the big expensive players like Harvey and Legora. I'm wondering about those of you who took the plunge into developing your own agents. What exactly are you using? n8n, copilot studio, or are you actually coding in Python and something like langgraph?

And how are you dealing with the fact that these things seem to screw up formatting in Word documents?

I'm thinking mostly redlining here, but any other use cases welcome. Mostly trying to get a feel for which agentic frameworks people like (or hate) now.

https://www.legaltech.com/post/regulatory-changes-enabling-law-firm-2

A few things that caught my attention:

- Kirkland just committed $500M to train own Ai models

- Harvey is running POCs with firms to post-train open source models on firm knowledge (again 👀 ) and partners with 5 AI labs for research

- Post trained open source models reach Opus level on fraction of the costs

- Data from specific practice areas are very underrepresented in publicly available training data

What do you think?

Hey everyone, I'm building my first SaaS as a solo founder and I'm getting stuck on the legal side of things.

The idea is already validated. I've spoken with around 5-10 potential users and several said they would pay once the product is live. The app is about 99% finished.

Now I'm overthinking the launch. Maybe it's lack of legal knowledge, but I'm not sure what legal steps I should take before putting it online.

My SaaS will target a specific group of users, but the product will be available globally.

What would you do in my situation?

Register the business first, then launch?

Launch first, get some paying customers and maybe reach something like $500 MRR, then register the business?

What legal documents are actually necessary before launch (Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, etc.)?

I've done quite a bit of research, but every article and forum seems to say something different. Some people say "just launch," while others make it sound like you need everything set up legally before a single user signs up.

Law school -> judicial clerkship -> bit of law firmin’ -> 30+ years of solo plaintiff’s employment practice. Handled my last case today. Settled at mediation. I’ve some follow up to take care of, and some admin tasks to close up shop, but I am done with cases and clients. It’s been a good ride. I feel v fortunate to have had this career for my work life, and also v happy to be done with working. Adventures await. That is all. Bye y’all.

> An AI-powered law firm has won a court case without a single lawyer handling the pre-trial work, in what is thought to be the first victory of its kind in the UK, and possibly the world.

> Garfield AI, the UK’s first regulated AI law firm, helped a freelancer recover £7,000 in unpaid fees after a three-hour trial at Wandsworth County Court last month.

Our office currently uses the following tools in day to day legal work:

Clio

Everlaw for E-discovery

Outlook and Teams for Communication

LexisNexis for research

Pacer

I am discussing within the firm that we should sign up for a team plan on Claude but want to present a fully built pitch to show the areas where we can use it. Just want to get use cases from the rest of this sub on what big areas they are utilizing the tools

Wanted to be a lawyer. Now, less than 3 years into it, lawyering (at least in my transactional practice) is pretty quickly evolving into a job where I’m expected to spend a material amount of time engineering AI prompts and cleaning up AI output vs pre-AI lawyering tasks.

I think it’s probably true that the lawyers who will succeed moving forward are those that incorporate AI into their practices, and I’m doing so myself, but am also just feeling less sure than ever that this is actually how I want to spend my time.

For some shitty tasks, I guess trying to get AI to do the job instead of doing it myself could be seen as making my life easier or better. but overall it feels like this is just a very different job than I set out to do back when I applied for law school and Im not that into it.

Are most people excited about AI, or frustrated like me?

Was discussing this with a buddy of mine over a beer the other day. It turned into a pretty interesting conversation, so I figured I’d ask here and see what r/Ask_Lawyers thinks.

For lawyers already using AI in some capacity:

How has AI actually entered your workflow so far?

Maybe research, drafting, discovery, contracts or something else?

And the part I find most interesting is where do you realistically think this goes over the next 5–10 years?

Not “AI lawyers,” but things like AI arbitration, AI-generated legal strategy, automated case preparation, etc..

Something else I was wondering is if anyone has actually attempted to use AI as a major part of their legal representation in a serious court case yet?

If so, how did that turn out?

And if not, how long before you think someone seriously tries to rely on AI representation?

Curious what people inside the profession think the real trajectory is versus what the tech world assumes.