The quality of AI outputs depends on users’ skill in inputting good prompts.
That’s the premise of my new article: The Art of AI Prompting in Law and Dispute Resolution Practice.
It provides practical guidance about how to use AI tools responsibly, ethically, and effectively. It describes core skills including:
- Choosing the right AI tool
- Writing good prompts
- Using follow-up questions
- Avoiding AI’s problems
- Applying professional judgment when using results
It’s important to choose the right AI tool. A brilliant prompt to the wrong tool is a bad prompt. The article includes a list of specialized legal AI tools for legal and dispute resolution practice.
You shouldn’t just take the first response – it’s important to ask follow-up questions. This article offers a long list of suggested follow-up prompts.
It also provides examples of prompts across the life of a case – before, during, and after mediation.
It cites ABA Ethics Opinion 512, which describes lawyers’ ethical duty of technological competence under the ABA Model Rules.
If you would like to see some hands-on demonstrations, I also posted two short SSRN articles with companion 30-minute videos:
AI won’t do your work for you. But it can help you do it better – and probably faster.
Take a look.