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The shift

How AI is changing the General Counsel role

AI now handles the first pass on contract review, flagging unusual indemnity, liability, and termination clauses against your playbook. It speeds up legal research and case summaries, drafts routine NDAs and policy updates, and helps triage the flood of compliance questions from the business. The result is faster turnaround on routine work so you can focus on negotiation, risk calls, and board-level advice.

What AI can take off your plate

  • First-pass contract review and redlines against your playbook
  • Summarizing long agreements, regulations, and case law into briefings
  • Drafting routine NDAs, policies, and standard correspondence
  • Tracking renewal dates, obligations, and key terms across executed contracts
  • Sorting and triaging inbound legal and compliance questions from the business

What stays distinctly human

  • Deciding how much risk the company should accept on a given deal
  • Negotiating directly with counterparties and outside counsel
  • Advising the CEO and board on sensitive or strategic matters
  • Judgment calls on novel legal questions with no clear precedent
  • Handling privileged matters, investigations, and ethical decisions
Tools

Five AI tools for General Counsels

Harvey
A General Counsel uses Harvey to review contracts against internal standards and to draft and summarize legal documents across practice areas.
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Spellbook
Works inside Microsoft Word to suggest clause language and flag missing or one-sided terms while you redline a contract.
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Ironclad
Manages the contract lifecycle and uses its AI to extract key terms, obligations, and renewal dates from executed agreements.
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ChatGPT
A General Counsel uses it to draft policies, summarize long documents, outline arguments, and turn legal points into plain-language updates for business teams.
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Thomson Reuters CoCounsel
Runs legal research, reviews documents, and prepares deposition and discovery summaries with citations to source material.
Prompts

Five prompts to try today

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

1. Contract risk summary
You are my contracts reviewer. Read the attached [agreement type] and give me a one-page summary covering: parties, term, key obligations, liability caps, indemnity, termination, and auto-renewal. Flag any clause that deviates from a standard [vendor/customer] position and rate each risk as high, medium, or low.
2. Redline against playbook
Compare the attached contract to our playbook positions below: [paste playbook rules]. List every clause that conflicts, quote the current language, and propose replacement language that matches our standard. Note which items are deal-breakers versus negotiable.
3. Plain-language policy update
Rewrite the attached [policy name] for a non-lawyer audience of [employee group]. Keep it accurate but use short sentences and clear examples. Add a three-bullet summary at the top of what changed and what people need to do.
4. Litigation hold notice
Draft a litigation hold notice for a matter involving [brief description]. Identify likely custodians by role, the categories of documents to preserve, the date range, and clear instructions not to delete relevant material. Keep the tone direct and professional.
5. Regulatory question triage
A business team asked: [paste question]. Tell me whether this raises issues under [relevant law or regulation], list the two or three things I need to confirm, flag any deadlines, and draft a short holding reply to the team while I review.
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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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