Services
Audits, workshops, and advisory.
Each engagement is built around how your lawyers actually work, and led by lawyers who use these workflows on real matters.
AI system audits
Most teams have licensed AI tools. Far fewer have changed how the work actually gets done. An AI system audit shows where your team stands and what to do next.
What we look at
- Which tools and platforms your lawyers use, and for what
- Where AI sits in your research, drafting, review, and diligence workflows
- The prompts, templates, and skills your team relies on
- Where the review and verification points are, and where they are missing
- How work moves between lawyers, staff, and the tools
What you receive
- A map of your current AI-assisted workflows
- A gap assessment against the methods we teach
- Notes on tool and platform fit for your practice
- A prioritized 30/60/90-day roadmap
- A debrief session with your leadership team
How it runs
- 1.Kickoff and questionnaire
- 2.Interviews and observed working sessions with your lawyers
- 3.Review of sanitized sample workflows, prompts, and templates
- 4.Written findings and roadmap
- 5.Leadership debrief
An audit is an operational review of how your team works with AI. It is not a legal opinion on compliance with the rules of professional conduct, privacy law, or client requirements, and we do not review client-confidential material.
Workshops
Michael Showalter and Chandler Harris teach lawyers to work with frontier AI models with real preparation, iterative direction, built-in self-checks, and human review at the points that matter. The workshops are practical and specific, built around actual legal workflows rather than product demonstrations, and designed for practicing lawyers.
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.
Modules
Workflow architecture
How to structure an AI-assisted legal workflow from intake through final work product, including legal research, drafting, and quality control.
Drafting with AI
A live demonstration of how Michael Showalter uses Claude as an associate to draft a top-tier brief through a structured, collaborative process.
Catching what AI gets wrong
How to recognize and correct a model's mistakes and biases.
Prompt and context engineering for lawyers
How to give AI effective instructions, and how to use iterative revision to reach a professional standard.
Firm-wide deployment through skills
How to encode your team's procedures, templates, and style into reusable skills that work across every matter.
Every workshop covers
- Setting up a matter so the model has the context it needs
- Directing research, drafting, and revision iteratively rather than in one pass
- Building self-checks and review points into every workflow
- Verifying citations, quotations, and record facts against primary sources
- Platform selection and data-handling practices
- Designing a team-level AI operating system: roles, workflows, and review
Formats
Keynote
60–90 minutes
Presentation with Q&A. Suited to firm retreats and practice-group meetings.
Half-day workshop
3–4 hours
Presentation, live demonstration, and hands-on exercises.
Full-day workshop
6–8 hours
A deep dive with practice-group breakout sessions. Includes a follow-up consultation.
Workshops are priced per engagement, based on format and group size.
Advisory & AI system design
For teams that want more than a single session, we work alongside you over weeks or months.
AI operating system design
A multi-week engagement that designs your team's AI operating system from the ground up: who does what, which workflows run through which tools, and where review happens.
Skills and template development
We help you encode your procedures, templates, and house style into reusable skills, so every lawyer works from the same foundation.
Ongoing advisory
A monthly retainer covering workflow design and on-call support for AI integration questions as your tools and practice evolve.