I just got an insane bill from a lawyer for drafting an agreement.
I was wondering if some of you have a great workflow for drafting legal agreements with AI that are good enough to have a lawyer just review it?
My background is CS, so it's hard judge myself and I feel ChatGPT doesn't give enough details.
Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
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Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#2Got to the public library and check out some books from Nolo Press.
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#3What type of agreement? You can sometimes find an example agreement online, modify it to your needs, then have a lawyer give it a final review.
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#4I have handled a few personal legal matters myself by drafting with Lex.page (a very useful tool for any writing but you can also accomplish about the same thing with Google Docs and Gemini.)
It’s also important to perfectly prompt the “AI” promptly to perfection. You have to tell it who it is, what it is doing and make sure to be specific about the scope and legal matters involved.
Break it down into smaller chunks and once you have a draft you like, send the draft to another “AI” and ask it to play as a lawyer on the other side of your equation and “rip apart” the draft letter you wrote like any good lawyer would.
Make your two “AI” models adversarial to each other until the final result is a rock solid document.
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#5Got to the public library and check out some books from Nolo Press.
What's the workflow for going to the library though, and how goes ChatGPT integrate with it? Is there an MCP for Nolo Press?
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#6I just got an insane bill from a lawyer
The bigger the bill, the more dollars are in your 30% markup when you pass your costs to the client.
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#7Got to the public library and check out some books from Nolo Press.
What's the workflow for going to the library though, and how goes ChatGPT integrate with it? Is there an MCP for Nolo Press?
(1) Get in my car, drive to the library, pay $1 an hour to park, find a contract in the book, type it in, edit, done
(2) Ask Nolo Press
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#8I have handled a few personal legal matters myself by drafting with Lex.page (a very useful tool for any writing but you can also accomplish about the same thing with Google Docs and Gemini.) It’s also important to perfectly prompt the “AI” promptly to perfection. You have to tell it who it is, what it is doing and make sure to be specific about the scope and legal matters involved. Break it down into smaller chunks…
thanks for the tip with two AI models. I've done that in writing coding specs. I already gave it a lot of detail about who it is. will give this a try.
Do you have an exit criteria that you can define for when the models stop picking on the other models solutions?
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#9What type of agreement? You can sometimes find an example agreement online, modify it to your needs, then have a lawyer give it a final review.
this case was a little bit of a one off. Created a convertible note for a piece of land that doesn't exist yet.
Re: Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?
#10I just got an insane bill from a lawyer The bigger the bill, the more dollars are in your 30% markup when you pass your costs to the client.
It was for something personal... so I'm just having my bill for breakfast