By Jonathan Shechter, Founding Partner
Here is a small request from your lawyer: when you send something for review, send your own version first.
Polished is not the same as accurate
More and more of the emails and deal summaries that reach lawyers have clearly been through an AI tool first. They read well. The problem is that your lawyer can no longer tell what you actually know from what the tool guessed to make the story flow.
A date, a number, a promise made to an investor: on a polished page, everything looks equally sure of itself. In a transaction, those are exactly the details that matter.
Why it ends up on your bill
When a lawyer cannot tell which facts came from you, the safe thing to do is check all of it from scratch. That takes time, and that time ends up on your bill.
What helps more
A few rough lines in your own words, typos included, help more than a polished page. Tell us what you know, what you are not sure about, and what you are trying to achieve. It is better to start from what you really know and fill in the rest together.
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This article is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. Reading it does not create an attorney-client relationship.