Practical AI Guides for Small Florida Law Firms
No trend reports. No breathless summaries of whatever launched yesterday.
These guides show small Florida firms where AI can improve actual legal work, where it creates risk, and how to use it without surrendering confidentiality, professional judgment, or common sense.
Written by a former Big Law partner for Florida firms with fewer than 25 lawyers.
Choose the problem that sounds most familiar.
We are not sure where to start.
Take the two-minute readiness check. No email, no sign-up. You get a score and a next step. Prefer reading? Start with A Better Tuesday.
Take the Self-Check →We want practical workflows.
See where AI can assist with intake, drafting, summaries, client communication, internal procedures, and marketing.
Read how to choose a first workflow →We have a specific risk question.
Get straight answers on confidentiality, accuracy, billing, supervision, and client disclosure. Choosing a vendor? Start with the short evaluation worksheet.
Read the 25 Questions →We already pay for Lexis.
Organize Vaults and build prompts, skills, Create+ drafting processes, and workflows around legal work.
See Lexis+ Protégé consulting →Five guides for the decisions in front of you.
Choose the question your firm needs to answer now: how to set controls, test one workflow, assess a vendor, filter product claims, or use current software better. Each guide is written for Florida firms with fewer than 25 lawyers.
Find a guide or working document for your question.
Platform guides
Vendor and firm decisions
Quick answers and self-check
Tools you can use today.
20-Workflow Playbook
Downloadable workflow examples. Free PDF; no email required.
Get the 20-workflow PDF →Free Florida AI Starter Playbook
A 26-page working playbook for managing partners. Free with your email.
Get the Playbook →Top 10 AI Workflows by ROI
A one-document ranking of where small firms usually see results first. PDF.
Download the PDF →Give Your Firm a Sensible Place to Start.
The playbook includes a plain-English Florida Bar Opinion 24-1 guide, readiness checklist, five workflows, tool-approval scorecard, daily verification checklist, client disclosure language, incident-response protocol, and 90-day outline.
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Florida-specific guidance for work your lawyers already perform.
Each Playbook examines practical workflows, prompts, risk points, lawyer-review requirements, governance, and implementation.
Bankruptcy
Chapters 7 and 13, intake, documents, plans, client communication, and student-loan issues.
Open the Bankruptcy playbook →Business and Corporate
Entity work, contracts, governance, diligence, transactions, and negotiations.
Open the Business and Corporate playbook →Commercial Litigation
Assessment, pleadings, discovery, chronologies, depositions, motions, and mediation.
Open the Commercial Litigation playbook →Criminal Defense
Intake, charge analysis, discovery, evidence, motions, plea exposure, and trial preparation.
Open the Criminal Defense playbook →Employment
Claims, documents, timelines, policies, agreements, investigations, and drafting.
Open the Employment playbook →Family Law
Intake, financial discovery, time-sharing and alimony analysis, drafting, and client communication.
Open the Family Law playbook →Personal Injury
Lead intake, medical records, treatment chronologies, demands, damages, and communication.
Open the Personal Injury playbook →Real Estate
Transactions, title, closings, HOA and condominium matters, summaries, and handoffs.
Open the Real Estate playbook →Trusts, Estates, and Tax
Planning intake, organization, drafting, probate, education, and client communication.
Open the Trusts, Estates, and Tax playbook →Primary Sources Worth Bookmarking
For AI ethics and risk controls, start with Florida Bar Ethics Opinion 24-1, ABA Formal Opinion 512, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications.
About These Guides
The guides are written for managing partners, administrators, lawyers, and senior staff at Florida firms with fewer than 25 lawyers. They are educational resources, not legal advice. Technology, vendor terms, court rules, and ethics guidance change. Check current primary sources before relying on a specific statement.
Pick one recurring workflow that wastes time.
We will discuss whether AI can improve it, which existing tools may help, and where lawyer review belongs.
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