# Legal AI for legal practices > GenieAI helps law-firm teams draft, review, and negotiate engagement letters, retainers, and client agreements with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions. **Industry:** Legal Services For the firms that draft, review, and advise on contracts every day Legal services teams at Marcura, Flora Legal Group, Charleston School of Law and Altara Law use Genie to draft and review engagement letters, referral agreements and client contracts. ## Legal-services contracts, billable-hour saving GenieAI is the AI legal assistant trusted by 200,000+ business teams. We draft, review, and negotiate every legal-services contract - engagement letters, retainers, conflict checks, sub-contract terms - with current-law accuracy across 150+ jurisdictions. - Auto-draft engagement letters, retainers, and fee agreements - Standardise scope, billing, and conflict terms across clients - 500+ legal-services templates across 150+ jurisdictions, free to use ## Where legal services teams use Genie ### Draft engagement letters and referral agreements Produce a first draft of an engagement letter, referral agreement or client contract from a plain-English brief. [https://www.genieai.co/use-case/create-contracts](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/create-contracts) ### Negotiate against your own firm positions Check a client's amendments against the terms your firm accepts on liability, scope and payment. [https://www.genieai.co/use-case/review-negotiate](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/review-negotiate) ### Consistent terms across every matter It remembers the positions the firm took last time, so fee earners stop re-deciding settled questions. [https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ai-contract-assistant](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ai-contract-assistant) ### Ask what an engagement letter commits the firm to Get answers on scope, fees and liability caps, each tied back to the exact clause. [https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ask-your-document](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/ask-your-document) ### Redline client contracts inside Word Mark up an engagement letter or client contract in the document they sent, without rebuilding your comments elsewhere. [https://www.genieai.co/use-case/word-add-in](https://www.genieai.co/use-case/word-add-in) ## How teams use Genie in Legal Services ### Sales - **Close client retainers faster** — Auto-draft retainers, engagement letters, and fee agreements in seconds, with your standard positions applied. - **Negotiate within playbooks** — Surface pre-approved fallback terms so partners and BD move without paging conflicts for every redline. - **Track engagement risk** — See where every client engagement sits versus your conflict and professional-conduct positions. ### Procurement - **Vendor onboarding in minutes** — Review legal-tech, knowledge, and SaaS agreements in one pass, with risk areas flagged automatically. - **Standardise across suppliers** — Enforce your confidentiality, SLA, and audit-rights positions across the entire supplier base. - **Spend-control insights** — Surface auto-renewal and price-hike clauses across the supplier base before they trigger. ### Leadership - **See firm-wide exposure** — Surface enterprise-wide risk across client, supplier, and partner contracts in a single dashboard. - **Move faster on growth and lateral hires** — Spin up due diligence packs, partnership agreements, and joint-venture terms without delaying the deal. - **Empower every team within guardrails** — Set conduct and confidentiality positions once; let partners, BD, and ops teams draft within them. ### In-house Legal - **Run your own desk efficiently** — Auto-handle NDAs, vendor MSAs, retainers, and standard engagement terms so you focus on novel firm issues. - **One source of truth for clauses** — Maintain a living legal-services playbook your partners and BD teams can draft from directly. - **Move quicker on negotiations** — Suggest pre-approved fallbacks for liability, conflicts, and termination clauses instantly. ### Operations - **Streamline contract intake** — Triage incoming supplier, client, and SaaS agreements automatically against your playbook. - **Standardise across the supplier base** — Enforce a uniform position on confidentiality, SLAs, and audit rights across every vendor. - **Cut cycle time** — Reduce review backlog from weeks to days with AI-first triage on every incoming agreement. ## Real Legal Services teams using Genie > “If we’re just doing it straight through… I’d usually take about eight hours to write a brief. I can do the same thing with Genie in two hours.‍“It’s like having a very well-trained attorney at my beck and call, who will get smarter as I ask it better questions.” — Amier Carmel, Amier Carmel - a US attorney building his own NJ practice in workplace discrimination - cut drafting time from eight hours to two with GenieAI as a foundational tool. **8 hours → 2 hours per brief** - **Industry:** Legal services. Solo practice - **Team:** 1 attorney - **Use case:** Brief + contract drafting - **Result:** 75% drafting time saved [Read case study](https://www.genieai.co/case-studies/how-genie-ai-reduced-drafting-time-by-75) ## How does GenieAI compare to ChatGPT? | Capability | GenieAI | Claude | ChatGPT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Conversational interface | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Can upload docs & PDFs | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Review against your playbook rules | Yes | Yes | No | | Edit and negotiate in tracked changes | Yes | No | No | | Collaborative legal editor for teams | Yes | No | No | | Compare against a proprietary legal dataset | Yes | No | No | | Manage complex deals with Eidetic Intelligence | Yes | No | No | | Develop an org-wide legal brain | Yes | No | No | | Save templates, playbooks, insights | Yes | No | No | ## Questions from legal services teams ### Can legal services teams review contracts without waiting for legal? Yes. Legal sets the positions your business accepts once, as a playbook, and Genie reviews incoming [engagement letters](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/engagement-letter), referral agreements and client contracts against it, so routine work moves without joining a legal queue. Anything outside those positions is flagged rather than waved through, so legal keeps the standard and the business keeps the timeline. ### Who decides which contract positions we can accept? Legal does. The playbook is authored and owned by your legal function: preferred positions, acceptable fallbacks, and the points you will not concede. Genie applies it rather than substituting a standard of its own. That division is the point. The business gets speed without reopening settled questions, and legal gets consistency without reviewing every draft. ### How long does an engagement letter review take with Genie? It depends on length and how much the counterparty has changed, so we publish customer outcomes rather than a single headline figure. Firefish, a market research agency of 50 to 100 people with its own in-house legal function, cut contract review time by more than 50% and now handles the same volume with half the legal availability. HoSt Group, a 700-person energy company, gives 25 commercial seats to its sales and commercial teams and reports 80% faster reviews. The saving comes from Genie reviewing against your playbook first, so whoever opens the contract starts from a marked-up draft rather than a blank page. ### Does GenieAI work inside Microsoft Word? Yes. Genie works directly in Microsoft Word, so you review and redline in the document your counterparty actually sent, rather than moving it into another system and breaking your review trail. DocuSign and Adobe Sign integrations are in development. ### Can Genie draft an engagement letter from our own standards? Yes, and that is the intended use. Genie drafts from your standards and playbook rather than from a fixed form, so an [engagement letter](https://www.genieai.co/en-us/template-type/engagement-letter) comes back written the way your business writes them. You describe the deal in plain English and Genie produces a first draft to your positions, with current-law accuracy across more than 150 jurisdictions. ### What happens when a counterparty's redline falls outside our playbook? Genie flags the deviation instead of accepting it. The change is identified against the specific position it breaches, so whoever reads it can see what was altered, why it matters, and whether it needs a decision from legal. Escalation is the feature rather than the failure. It is how legal stays in control of the standard while everything inside the standard keeps moving. ### Is our contract data used to train AI models? No. Documents you generate or upload stay in your tenant, are not used to train models, and confidential material is not shared with third-party LLMs. GenieAI is ISO 27001 certified and operates under GDPR. ### Can GenieAI keep engagement terms consistent across a practice? Yes. Liability caps, scope boundaries and payment terms are recorded once, so fee earners negotiate inside them rather than re-deciding settled questions. That is what makes the terms defensible when a scope dispute arises. --- This is the Markdown representation of [https://www.genieai.co/industry/legal-services](https://www.genieai.co/industry/legal-services), provided for AI agents and crawlers. The HTML page is canonical. See [/llms.txt](https://www.genieai.co/llms.txt) for the full content map.