00:00Foreign Schaefer, I'm a technology lawyer, and I've been specializing in new and emerging technology for over 20 years, since the new and emerging technology was the internet

00:16The latest technology is artificial intelligence, and I've been evangelizing for a long time that technology is going to be a huge catalyst in the legal industry, to provoke change, to change the way law is practiced, and that's been true since the event of the internet, where we've seen clients gain access to information, level the playing field between lawyers and clients, allow clients opportunities to make informed choices

00:45About legal counsel, to compare legal counsel by looking at online information about law firms of lawyers, and a host of other issues, artificial intelligence has the ability to change the practice of law in ways that we have never seen before

01:02So in this video, we're going to talk a little bit about how to use AI if you are an attorney, why you should be training up your attorneys if you are a law firm, if you are managing partner, and how to take it to the next level using some plugins and some next steps beyond just simply entering information into chat GPT, which let's face it, is fun, but doesn't really move the all in terms of legal practice, it doesn't help lawyers to do their job better in a significant way, so at the end of this video, I'm going to show you and share with you some of the very specific strategies and prompts and tools to use in order to up your game with chat GPT, specifically as a lawyer trying to deliver better quality and less time for your clients

02:04All right, so with that, let's go ahead and jump in

02:06You guys have all played with chat GPT

02:09If you haven't, you are already behind

02:11AI is here, and it is already making things 80, 90, 95 percent more efficient for certain tasks that lawyers perform

02:22That means That lawyers can do more and less time than these clients are going to expect, that lawyers can do more and less time

02:29So, Chat GPT is a pretty simple interface, and you have to manually put what is called a prompt, which is the question that, in the, that you want Chat GPT to answer, or you have to let Chat GPT know what it is you want it to do

02:46Do you want the answer to a question? Do you want to respond to an email? Do you want to provide a case citation? Do you want it to provide, uh, authority or authoritative resources for a certain proposition? Do you want it to define certain legal terms? Those crops are key to Making Chat GPT work for you, and not only can you have a prop that tells GPT what you want in terms of output, but you can have props that also provide contacts that allow Chat GPT to understand more about the specifics of the situation, context around the output that you're looking for, background

03:31You can provide information by prompt, and it's a background information for it to consider in devising a response to an email or an argument that you want to craft

03:44These props, this context, is critical, and it's why Chat GPT, as powerful as it is just in its raw form, is just barely scratching the surface of what is

03:57Possible now, we're having technology breakthroughs every single day when it comes to add-ons for Chat GPT, in order to make it more useful and more user-friendly for specific industry niches

04:11So what are the things that you absolutely need to add to Chat GPT as a lawyer in order to get the most out of it, in order to enhance your ability to provide contacts, in order to provide more specific information, or to get the better answer from Chat GPT? All right, so the first one is a great extension that's actually built directly into your browser, and it's called Chat GPT sidebar, and you'll find it in the Chrome Web Store, it looks like this, got a little brain with some little uh nodes and neurons coming out of it, and you're going to go ahead and add that to Chrome

04:26I already have added it to Chrome

04:41Once you add it to Chrome, you'll find it in your toolbar

04:56Chat GPT sidebar, what you're going to want to do is pin and unpin this plug-in, this extension, as you are using it and as you want to turn it off

05:09So I'm going ahead and I'm going to turn it on, and you're going to see it's going to give me a sidebar for everything that I'm doing on the internet with Chrome that's going to provide instead of resources or things for me to

05:18Click on it, it's going to provide me answers within the context of chat GPT, though it's going to help me with my props, so let's take a look

05:27We've got the sidebar in here, let's go ahead and move this over here and go to chat GPT

05:32Now here's the interface that you're familiar with, here is the sidebar, so what does this chat GPT sidebar do? Well, it helps provide context by giving you more options for preps, it gives you a kind of a, a little tier one, layer one prompt shortcut, so baked into the prompts are some things like summarize or provide me similar pages or give me grammatical spelling uh updates, explain something, so

06:08When you put in this prompt, you're saying to chat GPT, "Hey, I want you to explain something for me," and then you tell, you provide it, what you want to be explained, because this is a large language model

06:24What each PT is able to do is interpret what it is you're asking, so you can ask Jet GPT to explain using regular Old English and a thousand different variations

06:38AI has the ability, for the first time in history, to interpret what you are saying and then to turn it into an explain output, so you can use any different variety of ways to ask it to explain, and it will theoretically understand that you are asking it to

06:59Explain, so all these are different prompts that you can put in there

07:03So if you wanted to summarize, for instance, I've done a kind of a cotton paste here that I'm going to put in here

07:10Let's say that you've got, uh, a letter from another attorney and you want to summarize it for a client

07:18So I'm going to put this whole letter from another attorney, which just came off the internet, it's not mine, uh, into this box, and I'm going to submit it under the prompt "summarize." So now what it's going to do is give me a summary of the letter

07:26Now, this is great

07:33I need to make sure it's accurate, most of the time it is

07:41I can now use this in

07:44Communications with the client, summarizing the letter, buried practical application, but think about having to read it and figure out for yourself what it is you want to say, and then going ahead and drafting that up

07:56That's going to take what point? Let's, let's talk in lawyer talk, 0.5.6

08:02This was able to do that in .01, so you can see the value there

08:08All right, so let's go ahead and clear that

08:13Let's take a look at some of these other prompts

08:15So let's say that I wanted to have it explain something, so explain to me the difference between the common law trademark and a registered trademark

08:39All right, so this might be Because I want to explain this for my client, look at the information that it's going to generate for me, distinguishing a registered trademark from a common law trademark

08:53I can reuse this information with my communications to my client in order to help them understand concepts that I need them to understand

09:02Now I'm going to take this, now I'm going to say, summarize this

09:08These spots, so I'm now going to go over into Chat GPT, and I'm going to use this colon to demarcate the difference between what I want Chat GPT to do and the context that, or input that I'm going to provide to Chat GPT, so I'm going to say this is a A little too long

09:30What I'm going to do is go ahead and say, "Summarize this response," and put the whole thing in here, and now I'm going to go ahead and get rid of this

09:42See, around, I think I probably have to go ahead and turn it off, but that's okay

09:48You can see here it turned this into a much shorter statement

09:54The efficiencies gained on simple things like this is what technology has been about and always will be about, and this is a very powerful tool

10:05All right, so let's go ahead and get rid of that, and let's talk a little bit about, uh, some of these other things

10:10You can have it rewrite, what about taking and modifying these props? So they're specific to the practice of law, they're specific to what we're doing as lawyers

10:23Well, we can add custom prompts to this system, which is what makes it better than all the other ones that I've seen out there so far, and I'm sure they'll be even better once, uh, next month

10:35But one of them is, provide reference

10:41When you go ahead and say I want to manage my, my prompts, it's going to take you to this page, and this is basically your setup or your settings

10:53So, uh, what you're going to do here is you're going to take a look and see some of the prompts for the sidebar that are templates, and I took out some of the ones

11:02That I didn't want, but that I also created custom probes specific to lawyers, provide a reference or a source, provide a reference or a source for the following statement, and that's going to be one of the prompts we'll take a look at

11:18You can create a prompt that says, "Identify supporting case citations, identify," and this first thing is the name, but it often is very similar to what you're doing

11:27The prompt content, which is going to be followed by a colon, is going to tell Chat GPT what exactly you want it to do: identify authoritative, authoritative case law in the United States to support this argument

11:42Could provide as much prompt context or a background here, if you want to say law in Michigan, or in law in California, or recent law, you get stylizes, just use your words, it's all plain English, that's the point of AI

11:56And so I'm going to save this out, we'll take a look at both of these examples

12:01So in this instance, I'm going to ask for a reference, and let's take a look here, a particular statement, let's take this statement: "AI will not replace lawyers, AI will assist lawyers, make them more efficient, and ensure better outcomes for clients." So I would like some support for that statement, I came up with it, but I know I've

12:27Probably read it before, so let's see what, yeah, GPT can provide me in terms of a citation or reference, and you can see here it's saying that there are several sources for this

12:39One source is Law Society of England, and it gives me a citation here

12:46Another source is the American Bar Association, 2019, and you could see these sources, along with many others, in the legalized suggest AI will play an important role in the future, but will not replace lawyers, so you can see providing references, high value

13:06Okay, what about if I want legal cases and can I do some research, so what if I wanted to get, um, a case citation? For this proposition, so let's say I wanted to say, "Here's my argument," and the argument is, under Michigan law, employers can protect their reasonable competitive business interests with a non-compete

13:36Michigan courts have stated what is reasonable should be determined by analyzing the context of the situation and the business interest to be protected, like a citation for that, and you can see here it's providing me citations to Michigan case law

13:49I can ask it if the case law is still good, I can ask it if there is any other case law, I can ask it if there's contrary case law, so you can see with this chat GPT

14:02Sidebar, you can start to really design prompts that are specific to your practice, and when you're putting these prompts in, you can make them as specific and provide as much context as you want

14:10That's like tier one, level one

14:18If you're a lawyer, you need to start playing with chat GPT, you need to create these sidebar props

14:26I'll be developing uh, props for you to use and putting them in future videos, so go ahead and subscribe, like this video, subscribe, and you'll see much more detailed props and that you can use and input into this particular tool

14:43Now, there's a next level to all of this, all right, and the next level

14:48Is more context, it's more background information, it's giving Chat GPT more information about what it is that you want, in more context for it to generate that response

15:01So there's lots of different ways that you can design tools to perform specific tasks

15:08Let's look at one common one, and that's responding to emails

15:13Okay, so what you're going to need is you're going to need Google Sheets, and of course, everything in the future is going through Google, Google Drive, Google Docs

15:25If you're not using it, you're already way behind, so go ahead and log into Google, get set up with Google Drive and Google Sheets, and You're going to want to go ahead and open up a new sheet, and then you're going to need to add an extension, and the extension you're going to add is GPT for sheets and docs, right? So basically, you're going to go to get and get add-ons, that's going to give you here, and you're going to put Chat GPT, and it's going to give you lots of options, and you're going to get it for sheets and docs here, all right? Once you get your extension added, you have to turn it on, and so once you see it in this drop down, you need to enable GPT functions, and I've already got it enabled, but uh, it won't work unless you've enabled your TPT functions

16:23As an extension, and there are videos on YouTube that will help you do that and help you get set up, today's video assumes that you can do that, whether you have done that, and now you're just trying to figure out how can you use ChatGBT with not only a kind of single layer prompt, but multiple layers of prompts and contacts

16:43So here's what we've got: we've got tasks as a prompt saying, "Here's the task I want you to perform." I'm going to tell Chat GPT the role in the conversation

16:57I'm going to tell Chat GBT the tone that I want it to take

17:00I'm going to give Chat GBT prior communications so that it's got context for this

17:08Specific response, and then I'm going to ask it to drop draft response, so this is all going to get generated into this output as you're going to see, and then if I want to refine that, I can type in a prop to refine for some particular purpose task line item

17:22One, respond to an email, that's what we're asking it to do, gonna add another task, consider prior communications as part of the response email, and I've capitalized prior communications, and I've labeled prior communications here, so it knows to, and this is like computer coding without having to know code, all I have to do is speak English, it's going to

17:48Interpret that when I capitalize "Prior Communications," and I told this, I named this cell "Prior Communications," it's going to now consider the information here after this colon as part of the response email

18:04Next task, I wanted to expand on and elaborate in the draft response

18:07Okay, so the draft response is going to be, uh, is going to be one that I put in, and I want ChatGPT to expand on that response and elaborate on that Sprite response

18:23All right, what is the role of chat GPT here? Gee, in the sense, I'm asking chat GPT to act as an attorney responding to a client's email, or it could be an adversary's email, and just change

18:34That out to a client's email using prior communications for context and using draft response for the main points, right? So again, prior communication is going to be this information here, the draft response is going to be what I'm going to tell it I want it to to say

18:53Uh, Dan, have Chat GPT expand on that

19:00All right, again, you're gonna need to subscribe, so we're gonna really dig into this as we move forward, but here is the formula that you're going to need for this particular client communications

19:13You're going to do equal sign and then GPT, and then what you're going to do is you're going to say to Chat GPT, I want you to

19:22Process this information, which gives it all its context, and then afterwards, we want you to use these variables, and then go ahead and close that out

19:36All right, now that we've set up our, essentially, our logic, what we're going to do is we're going to insert here the prior email that I've made up, and so prior communications is going to be from a client saying, "Hey, there was a Schaefer, this is Alex, do you know if you remember me, but uh, he's looking to protect an idea and would love to say hi and see what my thoughts are." All right, um, so let's change this to "our clients emailed," so we're responding to a client's email

20:13And we're asking Chat GPT to take as reference the prior communications, which is this field here for context, and use the draft response for the main points, and for the draft response, I've just simply said, "Let's set up a call," right? So let's just go ahead, and I'm going to redo the prompt for you

20:37This will be baked into your spreadsheet once you save it, you won't have to redo it, but again, what we're going to do is equal Chat or GPT, and then what we're going to give it is this context here, and then close up the parenthetical comma, and then we're going to ask it to use this data here, oops, I only want the commander color

21:01And then close the parenthetical here, so we're saying, "Use this for context, here's the information that you need for," or, "Here are the props, here's what you need for context," and go ahead and load this up, and let's see what Chat GPT comes up with for a response to this email with a simple instruction, "Let's set up a call." Dear Alex, thank you for reaching out to me regarding your new business idea

21:27I remember you from Sam's Circle friends, and I'm happy to hear that you are pursuing your entrepreneurial goals

21:32I would be more than happy to discuss patents and the necessary steps to ensure the safety of your idea as an

21:40Attorney, I understand the importance of protecting intellectual property, and I'm here to provide you with the necessary support in regards to your idea of reducing noise pollution

21:48I think it is a noble cause, and I'm interested in hearing more about it

21:51Let's set up a call at your earliest convenience to discuss your idea and how we could move forward in protecting it

21:58Thank you for considering my services

22:00I look forward to speaking with you

22:01So alright, so that's great

22:04I mean, from "let's send up a call" to that you would, and I would much prefer to send this as the response email, then let's set up a call we in the

22:16Future will be taking a look at how to do research using Chachi BT in a more sophisticated level, how to draft pleadings and draft, you're still going to have to edit in by, by using Google Sheets and getting more complex, complex tasks and props into this zone so that is giving you better results

22:35My name is Turning Rico Shafer, we will see you next time

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