How AI Is Helping Lawyers Prepare Better For Courtroom Trials

As the artificial intelligence boom takes over the world, lawyers are among the top professionals who are using AI to prepare better for courtroom trials. Not only for research but also lawyers are using AI tools for drafting contracts, finding legal references and doing compliance-related tasks. The AI is now part of the corporate world, including the courtroom decisions, serving as an assistant in the legal industry. However, it also raises a broader question about how much AI can be trusted, especially when it comes to legal matters.Anthropic has recently launched a new set of legal-driven plugins for its Claude chatbot. This tool can be used by lawyers, legal teams and even students for research and contract-related tasks. After the banking

and software industry, this announcement expands Anthropic’s entry into the legal technology sector after it introduced ‘Claude for Legal’ previously this year.

How Claude’s New Legal Plugins Work?

As per the Dario Amodei-led company, these plugins can automate several legal tasks that usually take hours of manual work. In simple words, they can help the cumbersome legal tasks to be done easily using AI. These plugins can help lawyers with contract reviews, compliance tasks, NDA checks, legal briefings and templated legal responses. Moreover, you can customise these features based on your organisation's own legal policies. One of the key tools is /review-contract. It reviews your tedious contracts clause by clause. This plugin can reportedly flag risks using colour indicators like yellow, green and red while it can also suggest edits. Another plugin known as /triage-nda can review your non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). It categorises documents into standard approval, legal review and full review cases. There are other such plugins that you can configure internally as per your legal playbooks through the settings. These legal tools are currently available to paid Claude users. Anthropic said these plugins can also be integrated into law firm’s internal systems.

Is It Safe To Use AI For Legal Work?

The legal industry is going through a rapid AI adoption globally. Lawyers, legal consultants and researchers are constantly using AI tools for drafting contracts, finding legal references, summarising case files and speeding up research work. At the same time, a debate is still ongoing whether AI tools can still make factual mistakes and even hallucinate information. Due to this, several legal firms and regulators have advised that AI must work as an assistant rather than doing the entire work of lawyers directly.

Several Indian firms have already started to integrate AI tools like Harvey, Legora into their workflows to save time and reduce repetitive tasks. Firms like Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, and Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas have already announced AI partnerships for their legal tasks reflecting how India and the world are adopting AI.