ChatGPT prompts for lawyers and paralegals
ChatGPT Projects can group chats, files, and project-specific instructions. These prompts turn a broad request into a more reviewable assignment, but a well-structured prompt does not make an answer accurate by itself.
Product-source review: . Capabilities and data terms vary by plan and can change. Confirm the current product documentation and your organization’s approval before using case material.
ChatGPT for litigation — product fit and limits
Strengths
- Projects can keep related chats, uploaded files, and project instructions together.
- File upload, data analysis, and web capabilities are available on supported plans and models.
- OpenAI states that Business, Enterprise, Edu, and API data is not used to train models by default.
Watch-outs
- The model can produce plausible but unsupported facts and citations, even when the prompt requests sources.
- Data controls vary between personal and business offerings; confirm the workspace, settings, and firm policy before using case material.
- ChatGPT is not a legal citator or a substitute for checking primary authority and the underlying record.
This is an editorial product comparison, not an endorsement or a security assessment.
Using CasePrompts with ChatGPT
Create a Project for the matter, attach the file, and paste the CasePrompts prompt as your first message. Attaching the document often preserves page formatting better than pasting its text. Confirm that the workspace is a business offering your firm has approved before attaching case material.
From the builder you can copy a finished prompt and open ChatGPT. The prompt’s source-location instruction changes with the selected document type.
Tool interfaces change — adapt as needed, and check your firm's AI use policy before uploading case materials.
Why structure helps more than “summarize this”
Every prompt follows the CITE method: Context, Instructions, Template, Evidence. It names the source in scope, the task, the output, and how to cite supporting locations. That makes ChatGPT’s answer easier to inspect; it does not stop a model from misreading material, so check every material finding against the source.
Prompts to try in ChatGPT
Prompt libraryAdmissions & Key Testimony Extractor
Pull every admission, damaging concession, and 'I don't know' on your key issues out of a transcript — with verbatim Q&A and page:line cites.
AI Medical Chronology Prompt for Lawyers
Build a date-ordered medical chronology from the complete record, with source citations for every encounter and explicit flags for treatment gaps, prior history, causation language, and missing records.
Special Damages & Medical Billing Summary
Itemize the medical specials from the records and bills — provider, dates, treatment, billed, paid, and outstanding — totaled, with relatedness and missing bills flagged.
Demand Letter Facts Section
Draft the facts and damages narrative of a demand from the record itself — every sentence cite-backed, gaps flagged instead of papered over.
Prior Statement Cross-Examination Builder
Align a witness's deposition against every prior statement, classify each conflict, and get a lock-in → confrontation cross sequence with dual cites.
Plain-English Client Summary
A client-friendly status summary of the record at an eighth-grade reading level — jargon translated, honest about what's unresolved, nothing overpromised.
CasePrompts is vendor-neutral. Its builder and Ask your files read your files in the browser, so you can search the record and build a cited prompt before deciding whether anything goes to ChatGPT. Data & privacy
Official product sources
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