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Let Bard the specific outcome\/document that you want.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The factual background does not have to be very detailed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assign Bard\/ChatGPT\/Perplexity (our 3 favourite tools) a role &#8211; \u201cact like a lawyer for &lt;party&gt;\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will assume that we are working with Bard for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prompt Bard to ask you questions to gather more information so that it has all the information necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This eliminates the problem of yours having to remember all the information from memory and the risk of missing out relevant facts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 2: Provide answers to the questions asked&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can be somewhat long and time-taking, but you would have to do it anyway if you were drafting the petition by yourself, and it would take much more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bard may ask irrelevant questions, or may not ask certain relevant questions, but this is usually sufficient to fire up your imagination.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Bard&nbsp;has asked irrelevant questions, you can let it know that they must be ignored.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you provide answers to an irrelevant question, it might lead to yours harming your case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If some relevant question is missing, provide the information and why that is important to your case.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 3: Provide the format of the petition\/notice\/application<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most legal documents have a specified format, or a preferred format that your senior may expect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, a writ petition, or a contract, or a memo or a notice, are all to be drafted differently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provide the&nbsp;format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Headings, paragraphs and bullet points may also need to be provided in a specific way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where you need Bard to create a table, explain what the column heads should look like and how it is to be written.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add information about the tone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Provide that through prompts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 4: Review the output and customise through prompts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, you are likely to get around 50% of the quality of the draft needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While this is a good start, it is not going to be of very high quality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You will need to provide sufficient prompts to fine-tune this draft to an 80-90% stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the time to add any facts or favourable arguments that you may have accidentally missed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are the 5 things you need to know to get this right (this is where most litigators struggle):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Relevant facts of the matter, including what goes for your client and what goes against your client, and the position of law&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You need to be clear about the desired quality of the final output&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must know the rules of drafting the specific petition, application or the notice and the format of the draft inside out<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You need to be articulate your client\u2019s stance and favourable arguments, including the tone necessary &#8211; do not leave legal insights to AI&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must have sufficient practice with using prompts for AI tools to get to the desired quality of output&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Step 5: Perform a final check with manual revisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is extremely rare that you will get a 100% accurate final draft which can be directly used, although you may get a 80-90% desired draft.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At this point, fine-tuning using prompts, although possible, may be more time-taking than manual edits, so it is better to extract the output and edit manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We also frequently see that AI misses out on the aspects that it managed to get correct as you go through the iterations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One way to avoid it is to instruct AI to retain what it got right, for example, after your prompt, add a sentence ending with \u201cRetain everything else\u201d, or \u201cRetain xyz, bc, etc.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hence, it is very important that you extract and compile the relevant parts diligently. This is a simple aspect and yet must be done manually.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The important thing is to learn how to do this in practice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once you learn how to do the 20 most important corporate litigation and arbitration assignments, you can work with corporate clients who can pay you much better than individual clients.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With AI, you can outsmart and outmatch the competition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You do not have to worry about low paying clients, or low-paying seniors anymore!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you want to learn how to reach out to corporate clients for arbitration and corporate litigation assignments and learn 5 important corporate litigation and arbitration skills live, join us in the free 3-day live bootcamp over this weekend.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set an alarm on your calendar, and don\u2019t forget to attend live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I encourage you to apply the framework to your existing legal work before you attend and see for yourself how it works.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are a couple of samples to see this framework live in action.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sample 1: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CiC-NqMRG2I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> is a video of how to respond to a legal notice in respect of commercial matters using Google Bard. You can see the final response to the notice <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1VqCU7qRE1pbKcjN_HPEZtrxudsEgwjUU6v29hPYptZg\/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Here\u2019s the prompt sequence: <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/bard\/share\/904b3f5d5748\">https:\/\/g.co\/bard\/share\/904b3f5d5748<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Sample 2: You can do it with ChatGPT as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PD1QVYgWn8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> is a video with respect to response to an IP infringement notice. 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