A HUMAN PERSPECTIVE ON AI
Understand AI.
Put your judgment
to work.
AI can draft a contract, review a file, and answer a client’s question. What should you trust it to do? Start with how the technology works and what it means for your practice.
Before you rely on AI,
understand it.
INFINITE COUNSEL
When the work changes,
what happens to the profession?
If a first draft takes minutes instead of hours, what should a client pay? How should a firm train its associates? What is the lawyer’s contribution worth?
Infinite Counsel starts with the technology, then follows those questions through billing, staffing, client service, and the prospect of legal expertise available at scale.
IDEAS YOU’LL EXPLORE
01Understand how AI works
Learn how large language models generate answers, why they make mistakes, and what their memory limits mean when you give them a file to review.
02Use it in legal work
Work through prompting, research, drafting, discovery, and document review. Consider what information you can share with a tool and how to check what it produces.
03Rethink the economics of work
Consider what AI means for the billable hour, alternative fees, staffing, client expectations, and the value of professional judgment.
04Consider a world of abundant counsel
What happens if competent legal work can be replicated at scale? Examine AI agents, competition, regulation, and the role of the lawyer in that world.
For anyone thinking about the future of professional work.
A QUESTION FROM INFINITE COUNSEL
What will clients
need from us?
“What unique value will human lawyers add in a world of AI-augmented or AI-driven legal services?”
That question runs through the book. To answer it, we first need to understand the work these systems can perform and the limits of the answers they give.
Start with the fundamentalsTHE JUDGMENT EXERCISE
Would you trust
this answer?
An answer can sound convincing and still leave out the fact that matters. Would you catch it?
Try three fictional scenarios in about two minutes.A BUSINESS DECISION
The numbers sound convincing.
THE REQUEST
Our current software costs $2,400 a month. A replacement costs $900 a month, plus a $6,000 setup fee. What would we save in the first 12 months?
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Current subscription: $2,400/month. Replacement: $900/month. One-time setup: $6,000, paid during the first year. Compare 12 months of each option; assume no other costs.
Switching reduces your monthly cost by $1,500. That means you’ll save $18,000 in your first year. The replacement offers a clear financial advantage.
These examples were written for the exercise. You do not need an account or your own documents.
THE MODEL FIELD GUIDE
Which model fits
your work?
Compare six model families through the work you might give them: research, drafting, document review, and analysis.
Explore the models
Start with the basics.
How AI works, how to instruct it,
and where it can go wrong.
What do we mean by artificial intelligence?
What AI is, how it is used, and why different kinds of intelligence matter.
Read the guideHow to give AI clear instructions.
A prompt gives the model its task. Learn what to include and how to refine the answer.
Read the guideThe limits of an AI’s working memory.
What context windows mean for the documents and conversations you work with.
Read the guide
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