
The 10 Types of Legal Work and Why AI Treats Each One Differently
Ten types of legal work, each with different risk and AI fit, from drafting to advocacy strategy. The map to read before buying any legal AI tool.
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Issam writes legal content for the HAQQ blog, on how AI handles real legal work and where it falls short.
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Ten types of legal work, each with different risk and AI fit, from drafting to advocacy strategy. The map to read before buying any legal AI tool.
How large language models work, why they hallucinate, and how to prompt them safely, a plain-English 2026 guide for practicing lawyers. No CS degree needed.
Why multi-agent architectures beat single-LLM tools at legal work: task routing, jurisdiction-aware retrieval, citation verification, structured output.
Our May 2026 run: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4o and Gemini 2.5 Flash on 100 real r/legaladvice questions. Pass rates 78 to 88%, caveats the weak spot. Newer runs linked.
A partner cross-references six years of depositions in 90 seconds with NotebookLM. What AI memory tools do well for lawyers, and where they stop.
Nippon Life v. OpenAI: a $10M suit alleging ChatGPT practised law without a licence, cited a fake case and told a claimant to fire her attorney.
Specialist legal AI beat lawyer baselines 94.8% vs 70.1% on document Q&A. Generic chatbots hallucinate and leak data. The gap, and who it hurts most.