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The shift

How AI is changing the Corporate Counsel role

AI now drafts first-pass contracts, flags risky clauses in vendor agreements, and pulls relevant regulations across jurisdictions in minutes instead of hours. It summarizes long documents like due diligence files and board materials, and turns rough notes into clean policy language. The work that stays with you is deciding what risk the company should accept and how to advise the business.

What AI can take off your plate

  • First-pass review and redlining of routine NDAs and vendor agreements
  • Summarizing long contracts, diligence files, and regulatory texts
  • Drafting standard documents like engagement letters and internal policies
  • Extracting and comparing clauses across large document sets
  • Routing and tracking contract approvals through intake workflows

What stays distinctly human

  • Deciding how much legal and business risk the company should accept
  • Advising executives on judgment calls where the law is unsettled
  • Negotiating directly with counterparties and reading the room
  • Protecting privilege and handling sensitive or confidential matters
  • Owning the final legal advice and signing off on what goes out
Tools

Five AI tools for Corporate Counsels

Harvey
A Corporate Counsel uses Harvey to draft and review commercial contracts and run legal research grounded in the firm's own documents.
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Spellbook
Spellbook works inside Microsoft Word to suggest clause edits, flag missing provisions, and benchmark terms against market standards during contract redlining.
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ChatGPT
A Corporate Counsel uses ChatGPT to summarize lengthy agreements, draft internal memos, and rewrite legal points in plain English for business teams.
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Ironclad
Ironclad automates contract intake, routing, and approvals so routine NDAs and order forms move through self-service playbooks without manual handling.
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Kira Systems
A Corporate Counsel uses Kira to extract and compare key clauses across large document sets during due diligence and contract audits.
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Prompts

Five prompts to try today

Paste these into Claude or ChatGPT and replace the bracketed parts with your own details.

1. Redline an NDA
Review this mutual NDA from the counterparty's perspective and flag clauses that are unfavorable to us. For each issue, quote the clause, explain the risk in one sentence, and propose redlined language. Our priorities are: [confidentiality term length], [carve-outs], [governing law]. Contract text: [paste NDA].
2. Summarize a contract
Summarize this agreement for a busy executive in under 250 words. Cover: parties, term and renewal, key obligations, payment terms, termination rights, liability caps, and any unusual provisions. Use plain language and a bulleted format. Contract: [paste contract].
3. Compliance research
Explain the key requirements under [regulation or law] that apply to a [company type] operating in [jurisdiction]. List obligations, deadlines, and penalties for non-compliance. Note where you are uncertain and what I should verify with outside counsel.
4. Plain-English explainer for the business
Rewrite this legal clause so a non-lawyer product manager can understand what it means and what they must do. Keep it accurate but remove jargon. Add one line on why it matters. Clause: [paste clause].
5. Board memo draft
Draft a one-page memo to the board on [issue or decision]. Include background, the legal considerations, options with pros and cons, and a recommendation. Tone should be concise and neutral. Facts: [paste facts].
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Legal PlaybookFirst-pass NDA review
Screen an NDA in five minutes

Most inbound NDAs are routine. A few hide bad terms. You still read all of them line by line. Let the model do the first pass so you only spend real time on the ones that need it.

Claude  FREE  reads long documents and flags risk against your standard positions

The old way
You open the PDF, read all eight pages, and mark up clauses from memory. Twenty minutes per NDA, and the tenth one gets less attention than the first.
The AI way
You get a one-page flag sheet: term length, mutual vs one-way, governing law, carve-outs, and anything off-market. You read the flags, then read only the clauses that need a human.
You are reviewing a mutual NDA on behalf of [YOUR COMPANY], the receiving party. Here is our standard position: term of 3 years, mutual obligations, [YOUR STATE] governing law, standard confidentiality carve-outs (public information, independently developed, already known). Review the NDA below. List every clause that deviates from our standard position. For each, quote the language, say why it matters, and suggest redline wording. Flag anything unusual or one-sided. Do not summarize the whole document. NDA text: [PASTE NDA]

Why it works: Do not paste an NDA that is itself marked highly confidential into a free consumer tool, and confirm your firm's policy on document tools first. Every flag is a starting point, not a decision. A lawyer signs off before you send redlines back.

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