AI automation for law firms and legal teams, built by a lawyer-led team
For law firms, AI automation means using AI and workflows for the administrative and first-draft parts of legal work. That covers client intake, collecting documents, summarising and comparing documents, drafting from approved templates and keeping clients updated, while lawyers keep responsibility for advice and every output is reviewed. FIT is co-founded by a legal practitioner.
Common problems we see
- New enquiries take a long time to qualify, and intake details are re-typed into the practice system.
- Lawyers spend hours on first-pass document review and summaries.
- Similar documents are drafted from scratch or from old matters, with the risk of leftover details.
- Clients email for status updates that could be sent automatically.
- Knowledge sits in individual lawyers' heads and past files.
What we automate
Structured client intake
An intake form or assistant collects the facts, parties and documents for each matter type, prepares the information needed for conflict checks, and creates the matter record. No legal advice is given at intake.
Document review support
AI extracts key terms, dates, parties and obligations from contracts or disclosure documents and flags unusual or missing clauses against your checklist, with citations to the exact page for a lawyer to verify.
Drafting from approved templates
First drafts are generated only from your firm's approved precedents and the matter facts, never from the open internet, and are clearly marked as drafts for lawyer review.
Matter status updates
When a matter moves stage in your system, the client gets a plain-English update automatically, reducing "any news?" emails.
Internal knowledge assistant
A private assistant that searches your firm's own precedents, practice notes and procedures, and always links to the source document.
Built with a lawyer in the room
Most AI vendors treat law firms like any other customer. FIT is co-founded by Deborah B., Esq., a legal practitioner whose focus is the intersection of law and AI. That shapes how we build for the legal sector:
- Confidentiality first. Client data never goes into consumer AI tools. We use business or API terms that exclude training on your data, with access controls and logs.
- Verification by design. Every AI output that touches legal substance shows its source and is marked as a draft for lawyer review.
- Professional duties respected. We help you document how AI is used, so you can meet your regulator’s and your insurer’s expectations and explain it to clients.
Where firms usually start
The safest, highest-value first projects are administrative: structured intake, document collection, matter updates and a private knowledge search over your own precedents. Once those are trusted, document review and template-based drafting support follow.
Read our practical guide to using AI in a law firm for a fuller walk-through.
This page is general information, not legal advice. Check your own jurisdiction’s professional rules.
Frequently asked questions
Is it safe for law firms to use AI with client data?
It can be, with the right setup. Use AI services whose terms prevent training on your data, control where data is stored, restrict access, keep logs, and get client consent where your rules require it. Avoid pasting client information into consumer AI apps. Your professional conduct rules on confidentiality and competence still apply in full.
Can AI give legal advice to my clients?
It shouldn't. We design legal-sector assistants to collect information, answer procedural or administrative questions approved by the firm, and hand everything else to a lawyer. Advice stays with qualified, regulated people.
How do you prevent AI "hallucinations" in legal work?
By grounding outputs in the firm's own documents with citations, restricting drafting to approved templates, never using AI output as a source of law without verification, and requiring lawyer review before anything leaves the firm. Courts in several countries have sanctioned lawyers for citing AI-invented cases, so verification is not optional.
Why work with FIT for legal AI?
Our CEO, Deborah B., Esq., is a legal practitioner specialising in the intersection of law and AI. We understand confidentiality, privilege and professional responsibility from the inside, and we design around them.
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