AI training & consulting for legal teams
The 40-hour workday can be yours.
Your lawyers are too busy not to learn how to use AI. Your lawyers can 3x their productivity just like Showalter PLLC’s have.
Michael Showalter’s litigation work now takes one third the time. He hasn’t sacrificed quality—one of the country’s top appellate lawyers graciously describes him as “among the best legal writers I’ve worked with at Gibson Dunn,” and the work he’s producing now is of equal or higher quality than the work that earned that description. But he’s able to produce that work three times faster.
The workflow we teach
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Set up the matter
Give the model the context it needs before it writes a word.
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Direct iteratively
Research, draft, and revise in rounds.
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Build in self-checks
Have the model test its own work and flag what it is unsure of.
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Verify against sources
Check citations, quotations, and facts against the primary source.
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Lawyer sign-off
A lawyer judges the output and owns every sentence that goes out.
Our time with Michael paid for itself many times over.
What we do
Four ways to work with us.
AI system audits
A structured review of how your team uses AI today, ending in a written report and a prioritized plan for what to change.
Learn more 02Workshops
Hands-on training built around real legal workflows, from a 60-minute keynote to a full-day program with practice-group breakouts.
Learn more 03AI system setup
A fixed-fee engagement that connects your firm’s email, documents, matters, and meeting notes to Claude or ChatGPT and configures it for the way your lawyers work.
Learn more 04Advisory & AI system design
Ongoing support, and multi-week engagements that design a team's AI operating system from the ground up.
Learn moreTaught by practicing lawyers
We use these workflows on real matters.
Fortune 50 companies, Washington, D.C. law firms, startup law firms, and law schools have all signed up. Attendees have included law professors and lawyers from large national firms, litigation boutiques, a law-school Supreme Court litigation clinic, and public-interest organizations.
Showalter AI Consulting provides AI training for legal teams and law firms. Most such training is awareness training, delivered by people who do not practice law. Michael Showalter and Chandler Harris practice. The workflows taught in this workshop are the workflows they run on real matters, from appellate and complex commercial litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts across the country to corporate and transactional work.
The work is not AI-created; it is AI-assisted. As of today, AI cannot produce elite substantive work product on its own. A skilled lawyer must stand at the helm. But the quality of AI's associate work is stunning.
Michael Showalter has drafted merits and certiorari-stage briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court, drafted briefs in nearly all the federal courts of appeals, and presented oral argument before the D.C. Circuit. He has written ten published or forthcoming law review articles, including three on law and AI. He clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and graduated from Yale Law School near the top of his class. And he now has integrated AI into every aspect of his work.
What attendees say
From the people we’ve trained.
Michael Showalter stands out as one of the most sophisticated AI users among American litigators. His workshop reveals the advanced techniques and workflows that drive real results. I recommend it to any firm ready to move beyond surface-level adoption and achieve meaningful results with AI.
Mike is at the top of the game when it comes to integrating changes in technology with high-end legal representation. His session was invaluable in giving me insight into how I can do the same in my work.
Michael is first a great lawyer and second an innovator with respect to AI. His AI-integration workshop enables lawyers to make the most of the tools to compete at the highest level. I learned a ton. The workshop will increase profit margins when implemented at your firm.
Why now
Clients are starting to keep score.
For better or worse, AI has become integral to practicing law. If you believe AI cannot double your productivity, that is because you don’t know how to use it. One partner told Michael Showalter that Harvey recently sent her a first draft that was completely unusable. That is because she did not know how to use Harvey. Some lawyers think AI cannot yet replace associates and paralegals—that is because they don’t know how to use AI.
Sophisticated clients are already operationalizing the shift. Meta, for example, has updated its outside-counsel billing guidelines to flag and refuse payment for tasks the company believes could have been performed by AI. Salesforce’s Chief Legal Officer Sabastian Niles recently published an open letter calling on law firms to integrate AI as a baseline expectation. This trend will only accelerate—as Anthropic General Counsel Jeff Bleich recently predicted, “the firms that adapt [to AI] faster and better will be leapfrogging other firms.”
Adopting AI for show is insufficient. Spellbook founder Scott Stevenson has observed that some firms adopt AI to “make a big press release [and] look prestigious and innovative for their clients” “without actually significantly reducing their number of billable hours by being too efficient.” The firms whose AI is window-dressing will not survive as clients begin keeping score.
The gap between lawyers who can use AI effectively and those who cannot is widening every month. The legal market is paying attention—an X.com article Michael Showalter wrote in March 2026 explaining how he drafts with Claude was viewed over 160,000 times. Firms that wait out of caution will lose. You are too busy not to learn what AI can do.
Bring it to your team.
Tell us about your team and what you want AI to change. We’ll suggest where to start.