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014 of 025 · Licensed Professions

AI for

Paralegals

You know the brief with the cases that did not exist. Nothing here goes out under its name — it drafts, and you are still the one who checks.

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ten and a half hours
every week.

That’s ten and a half hours in a normal week. Your first week will be slower — you’re learning a tool. By week three, the numbers above are realistic. Chapter 12 gives you the 30-day plan to get there.

Line illustration: an hourglass filled with folded sheets of paper instead of sand

Where the hours come from

  • Chapter 4First drafts of routine documents, the proofread pass~3 hours
  • Chapter 5Client updates, records requests, the memos nobody reads~2 hours
  • Chapter 6Deposition summaries, indexes, logs, chronologies~2 hours
  • Chapter 7The career file: resume, certification study, the raise case~1 hour
  • Chapter 8Reading, translating, and cheat-sheeting the law around your cases~1.5 hours
  • Chapter 9The getting-ahead work you keep postponing~1 hour
Contents

Twelve chapters.

Twelve chapters, 150 prompts ready to paste, a glossary in plain words, and a thirty-day plan you can actually keep.

  1. Line illustration: a fat closed ring binder so thickly fringed with index tabs along every edge that they fan out past the covers like feathers, every tab and both covers completely blank with no lettering or numbers, the tabs the accent colour 01 Your Head Start
  2. Line illustration: an hourglass whose sand has been replaced by paper hole-punch chads, a small drift of them already gathered in the lower bulb, everything blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers anywhere, the chads in the lower bulb the accent colour 02 The 30-Minute Setup
  3. Line illustration: a plain manila file folder lying flat with one adhesive tab flag the size of a canoe paddle standing out from its edge, folder and flag alike completely blank with no lettering or numerals, the tab flag the accent colour 03 How to Talk to It
  4. Line illustration: a hand-cranked pasta machine clamped to the edge of a desk with one crumpled sheet of paper feeding in at the top and a neat stack of flat pressed sheets emerging below, every sheet blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers on it, the crank handle the accent colour 04 First Drafts in Ten Minutes
  5. Line illustration: a desk telephone with a full teacup and saucer sitting in the cradle where the handset belongs and the coiled cord running from the phone to the cup's handle, the dial and buttons blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers, the teacup the accent colour 05 The Client Whisperer
  6. Line illustration: a three-ring binder standing open on its end with several dozen index tab dividers fanned out behind it in a wide semicircle like an open hand fan, every tab blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers of any kind, the two tallest tabs the accent colour 06 The Docket, the Boxes, and the Binder
  7. Line illustration: a red-rope expanding accordion file standing upright in a terracotta plant pot with one young shoot rising out of its top pocket, the file blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers on it, the shoot the accent colour 07 The Career File
  8. Line illustration: an enormous bound law reporter volume upended over a small funnel that drips into a single espresso cup below it, the volume's spine, covers and pages blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers anywhere, the espresso cup the accent colour 08 The Knowledge Work
  9. Line illustration: a plank balanced on a fulcrum with a towering stack of bound deposition transcripts on one end held clear of the ground by a single paperclip resting on the other, every cover blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers, the paperclip the accent colour 09 Getting Ahead
  10. Line illustration: an oversized felt redaction marker lying across a single sheet of paper blacked out edge to edge into one solid rectangle, nothing legible and no lettering or numbers anywhere on the sheet, the marker the accent colour 10 The Rules You Can’t Afford to Break
  11. Line illustration: an overstuffed legal ring binder whose steel rings have been forced apart by its contents, held shut by a single elastic band as thick as a fan belt stretched around the whole thing, the covers and spine blank with no lettering, labels or numbering, the elastic band the accent colour 11 Tools of the Trade
  12. Line illustration: about thirty manila file folders standing upright on their edges in a long gentle arc like a row of dominoes with the first folder leaning into the second, every folder and tab blank and unmarked with no lettering or numbers, the first folder the accent colour 12 Your First 30 Days

Then: The Prompt Library, Glossary, The AI on the Job Series and About This Edition.

Free, from this book, right now

Read the opening before you decide.

Not a sample that stops mid-sentence — the whole first section, as printed, the title of every prompt in the library, and the guide to the trade.

The opening · 2,193 words Nothing Goes Out Under Its Name About 10 minutes. What AI does and does not do in this trade, and why the difference is worth your Tuesday. Read it free → The library · 150 titles Every prompt in the book, by name All eight groups, every numbered title, and twelve of the prompts printed in full so you can use them today. See the list → The field guide · free What AI does for paralegals The whole answer on one page: the six blocks of writing worth handing over, what each is worth in hours, what the tool gets wrong here, and the words you will meet. Read the guide →
From the Prompt Library

Prompt #1.

Printed exactly as it appears in the book. The yellow parts are the blanks you fill in — there are thousands across the 150 prompts, and they are why this works on your trade rather than a generic one.

COPY THIS — Prompt #1 · Your permanent profile

Paste into the custom instructions / profile box: “I’m a paralegal at a [SIZE]-attorney firm practicing [PRACTICE AREAS] in [STATE]. I work under attorney supervision; nothing you draft is legal advice and none of it goes out without attorney review. Standing rules: (1) I will never give you real client names or case details — everything I describe is fictionalized or bracketed, so never ask me for identifying details. (2) Never invent a case citation, statute, quote, or court rule; if you reference any authority, label it UNVERIFIED — I verify everything in Westlaw/Lexis or the official source myself. (3) Never calculate a litigation deadline; the firm’s docketing system is the only authority on dates. (4) Head every document draft DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW. Writing style: plain professional English, no hype, short sentences.”

One of 150 in AI for Paralegals.

Formats

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Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay. Prices, delivery and returns.

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Ebook (EPUB)
EPUB 3 · reflowable · no DRM · 1037 KB · about 30,571 words · ISBN 979-8-90623-437-7
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Audiobook
MP3 · unabridged except the Prompt Library · 2h 29m · 20 tracks · ISBN 979-8-90623-438-4
$14.99
Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Do I need to pay for ChatGPT or Claude to use this book?

Not yet. Free tiers of both tools carry you through every TRY IT NOW in this book and your first weeks of real use. You’ll know it’s time to pay (about $20/month) when you hit the daily limits during a normal workday — that’s the signal the tool is earning its keep. Chapter 11 covers what the money buys, and where your firm’s Westlaw or Lexis AI features fit in.

Is this book going to tell me AI is coming for my job?

No. It takes the opposite position, and says so on page one: it is a good tool for words, it does not do your job, it does the writing around your job. The book's own last line on it is “this book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. In a law office it kicks harder than anywhere else — it makes up case citations, it drifts into legal advice, and it does both in a confident voice. We’ll show you exactly where it kicks and exactly how the checking habits catch it. Those habits are the difference between the paralegal AI makes faster and the paralegal AI gets in trouble.” You can read the whole opening, Nothing Goes Out Under Its Name, free: 2,193 words, no sign-up.

What is actually in the 150 prompts?

Eight groups: Setup & Voice (1–15), Drafting Support (16–40), Communication (41–65), Organization & the Docket (66–85), Career & Credentials (86–105), The Knowledge Work (106–120), Getting Ahead (121–145), Admin & Momentum (146–150). Every title is listed free on the prompt page, and twelve of the prompts are printed there in full.

I have never used AI at work. Is this too advanced?

It assumes nothing. Chapter 2 is “The 30-Minute Setup” and Chapter 3 is “How to Talk to It” — the tool is set up and the one real skill is taught before anything else is asked of you. The glossary at the back explains every term the book uses.

How long is it?

It is about 30,571 words across 12 chapters, plus the 150-prompt library and the glossary; the audiobook runs 2h 29m across 20 tracks, measured from the masters on 2026-08-31. Chapters 1–3 take about an hour and everything else depends on them.

What do I actually get, and how is it delivered?

Ebook at $7.99 and Audiobook at $14.99. Both are downloads and arrive the moment you pay — the EPUB has no DRM, so it is yours on any reader. Ebook ISBN 979-8-90623-437-7; Audiobook ISBN 979-8-90623-438-4. There is no printed edition of this one yet.

The last line of the Promise Page

This book will not tell you AI is magic. It’s a power tool. In a law office it kicks harder than anywhere else — it makes up case citations, it drifts into legal advice, and it does both in a confident voice. We’ll show you exactly where it kicks and exactly how the checking habits catch it. Those habits are the difference between the paralegal AI makes faster and the paralegal AI gets in trouble.

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