AI-assisted drafting generates initial versions of discovery responses, correspondence, motions, summaries, and reports, typically working from case materials, templates, and prior work product.
The lawyer remains the author for professional purposes regardless of how the first draft was produced.
Alternative Names:
AI Drafting, Automated Drafting
Why it Matters?
Drafting is where efficiency gains are largest and where the billing question is sharpest, since Opinion 512 requires billing time actually spent rather than the pre-AI equivalent. The quality risk is different from research: fabricated citations are the obvious failure, but the subtler one is a draft that reads competently while omitting a jurisdiction-specific requirement the model had no reason to know applied.
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