Review a client's draft description of a personal-injury claim
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- List each factual sentence in the client's draft and the record, if any, that mentions the same event. Mark a sentence with no record beside it. Write no replacement sentence for the draft.
- What the lawyer must review
- Formal Opinion 512 requires review of generative-tool output before it is relied on, including citations and analysis before a court submission. Model Rule 1.1 Comment 8 is the technology competence comment. If the description is later filed as a federal pleading, Rule 11 is the lawyer's certification of factual and legal contentions. You decide what is filed.
- Written for / version
- United States versionUS
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Potential support includes 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.
- Check the current court or regulator requirements, prescribed form and attachments for the intended document and filing.
- 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.