Legal AI Insights
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Everything You Need to Know About Prompting AI You Learned in Law School
The most effective AI prompting techniques, specificity, structured frameworks, strategic context, targeted follow-up, are skills every lawyer learned in law school. Research proves it.
Why We Do Not Let Users Write Prompts
Open prompt boxes in legal AI create security risks, accuracy problems, and inconsistent output. Constrained interfaces that encode domain expertise produce better results for M&A attorneys than flexible prompt engineering ever will.
Why We Built a Legal Document Classifier First
Why Mage built document classification before extraction, how document types determine extraction strategy, and why getting classification right is the prerequisite for everything else in legal AI.
What 300 NDAs Taught Me About Change of Control Clauses
After analyzing change of control provisions across 300 NDAs for M&A transactions, clear patterns emerge. Five categories of COC provisions, each with different implications for deal execution and post-closing risk.
How to Build a Due Diligence Checklist for M&A
A comprehensive guide to building an M&A due diligence checklist tailored to your deal type. Covers the essential categories, how to customize for buy-side vs. sell-side transactions, and what experienced deal teams include that checklists from templates miss.
The Real Cost of Manual Contract Review in M&A
300 contracts at 45 minutes each is 225 attorney hours and $112,500 in direct cost. But the real expense is not the line item. It is the deals that take longer, the issues found too late, and the associate capacity that never recovers.