Draft a trust receipt or disbursement instruction from the authority
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Produce a first-draft receipt or disbursement instruction from the signed authority, the ledger balance and the payee details on the file.
- What the lawyer must review
- Confirm amount, payee and matter allocation against the file before anything is issued
- Do not let the tool move money
- Written for / version
- US
Open a jurisdiction version of this task to see which instruments apply: US
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes organising research leads and preparing preliminary structure or wording. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Open each relied-on authority independently. Confirm its existence, current status, proposition and any quotation or pinpoint reference.
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direction to pay money into the law practice trust account | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter telling a payer to pay a named sum into the general trust account, with the client's confirmation that the money is entrusted for this matter and is not payment of a bill already given. |
| Written direction to pay trust money to a third party | Letter | AI use Yellow | Client direction to pay a stated sum of trust money to a named third party, with the cheque or electronic-transfer particulars in rule 43. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.