Optimizing legal work with AI in law firms

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how work gets done across many industries — and law firms are no exception. But it is worth saying something important up front: lawyers with mileage, experience, and a feel for practice are nearly irreplaceable. Strategic thinking, legal judgment, negotiation skills, and an understanding of people remain things technology cannot simply replicate.

AI, however, can become an extremely powerful accelerator of their work.

Where can AI help most today?

Law firms spend enormous amounts of time on tasks that demand precision, speed, and clarity. This is exactly where AI can create the most value:

• drafting first versions of documents,
• reviewing contracts and clauses,
• legal research,
• summarizing case law,
• comparing documents,
• preparing responses to clients,
• structuring information from large case files.

The result is less administrative work and more time for strategic tasks with higher added value.

How to use AI effectively?

The biggest mistake people make with AI is expecting a high-quality answer from a one-sentence instruction.

Better results come when we give AI:

1. Good context

Who is the client? What is the goal? What stage of the proceedings are we in? What are our concerns?

2. Plenty of high-quality input

Draft contracts, correspondence, the relevant statutory provisions, internal practice, past cases.

3. Clear instructions

Do we want a summary, a risk analysis, suggested edits, or an argument?

AI is not magic — it is a tool that works only as well as we direct it.

Current obstacles to using AI in Slovenia

Although the potential is significant, general-purpose AI tools have several important limitations in the Slovenian legal environment.

1. Unreliable sources

Models often draw on blog posts, forums, or outdated information. In law, that can become a serious problem.

2. Outdated legislation

If AI pulls outdated sources or non-current versions of regulations from the internet, it can produce a wrong answer.

3. Missing context

The user knows what they mean. AI often understands something else.

4. Switching between tools

Copying between Word, email, PDFs, chatbots, and databases is time consuming and increases the chance of mistakes.

How Veru solves these problems

A specialized legal AI must be built differently from a general-purpose chatbot.

Veru removes the key obstacles because it:

• uses relevant legal sources,
• accounts for legislation and case law,
• understands the way lawyers think,
• enables work within a single environment,
• accepts the context of your firm and your case.

It is not just about generating text. It is a system that thinks like a lawyer.

The future is not fewer lawyers. The future is more effective lawyers.

AI will not replace an experienced attorney or a partner. But it will create a significant gap between teams that know how to use it and those that ignore it.

The most successful law firms of the future will not be the ones with the most people — they will be the ones with the best blend of expertise and technology.