If you’re already using AI to help summarize documents, draft correspondence, analyze information, or work through complex questions, you’ve seen how useful these tools can be.

But how and where you use AI tools matters. Using a separate AI platform outside of LEAP can require extra steps before you can even get started. To get the output you’re looking for, you may need to upload documents, adjust settings to help protect sensitive information, provide additional context, and copy and paste completed work back into your practice management system. And you could still be exposing sensitive firm and client data.

Using AI within LEAP can reduce many of those extra steps and the risks that can come with working across separate platforms. LEAP’s AI capabilities are designed to work with the matter information, documents, and tools you already use, giving you access to leading AI technology alongside the context surrounding your legal work. LEAP also maintains security safeguards designed for the needs of legal professionals.

Here are some of the biggest advantages of using AI in LEAP.

1. Access leading AI models without managing another system

Already comfortable using ChatGPT or Claude for legal work? You can access ChatGPT and Claude models directly within LEAP, without paying for separate subscriptions to those AI tools.

Matter AI provides access to several GPT and Claude models, allowing users to choose between available models based on factors such as complexity, speed, or reasoning required for a task.

Because these AI capabilities are included within LEAP, there are no additional AI accounts to manage or token allowances or credits to track. Tokens are small units of text that AI models process, and many AI services tie usage limits or costs to the number of tokens used. LEAP does not impose a token cap, so you don’t have to worry about monitoring your token usage or buying more credits to keep working.

That means you can take advantage of familiar generative AI models while staying within the same environment as your legal workflows and matter information.

For firms already paying for or managing separate AI services, using AI within LEAP can simplify how AI is used and managed across the firm while potentially reducing costs by eliminating the need for a separate enterprise AI subscription.

2. Use AI where your matter information already lives

A useful AI response often depends on having the right context. With a standalone platform, providing that context may require explaining the parties involved, adding key matter details, copying sections of emails, or supplying background information before you can get to the task itself.

Because it works within LEAP, Matter AI can help you retrieve, summarize, and compare information already associated with a matter, including documents, emails, PDFs, and notes.

That can make it easier to get specific, relevant information by asking questions such as:

• What are the key outstanding issues in this matter?
• Where did the client discuss this particular issue?
• What changed between these documents?
• What actions came out of the latest correspondence?
• Are there inconsistencies across the information in this matter?

Keeping more of this work within LEAP can also reduce the need to move sensitive client and matter information between separate systems simply to provide an AI tool with the context it needs.

And the benefit goes beyond matter analysis. AI-powered capabilities within LEAP can also support document creation, legal research, time recording, drafting, and other everyday tasks. Instead of treating AI as a separate destination, you can use it within more of the workflows you already rely on.

The advantage isn’t simply getting an answer faster. It’s reducing the manual steps needed to produce useful results.

3. Work with AI in a secure environment designed for legal information

For law firms, convenience alone isn’t enough. Security and confidentiality have to be part of every decision.

Every time client or matter information is copied and pasted from one platform to another, firms should understand how that provider stores, processes, accesses, and uses the information.

LEAP’s AI tools are designed with the security requirements of legal work in mind. Information processed through these tools is not used to train AI models, and your data, your clients’ data, and your prompts remain private and are not shared with AI providers for developing future models.

That distinction matters because some consumer AI services may use submitted content for model improvement, depending on the provider, account type, and settings. With LEAP, firms can use leading AI technology within a platform built to support the security and confidentiality requirements of legal professionals.

This doesn't eliminate the need for appropriate firm policies, careful use of AI, or professional judgment. But it can reduce the chances of unnecessarily moving information between separate systems with different security and data-handling practices.

4. Have a qualified attorney verify your AI legal research output

One of LawY’s biggest advantages is the ability to combine the speed of AI-assisted legal research with review by an experienced attorney, where available.

LawY draws on an expanding legal knowledge base to provide answers tailored to your jurisdiction and area of law, often with linked citations to relevant authorities. For more substantive questions, you can also request Deep Research for a more comprehensive analysis.

When you want an additional level of confidence, LawY’s lawyer-in-the-loop functionality may allow you to request verification from a qualified attorney in certain jurisdictions and matter types. These verifiers have at least 10 years of legal experience and knowledge relevant to the practice areas they review, so they can assess the AI-generated response and supporting authorities with the benefit of professional legal judgment.

That human review can be especially valuable when researching an unfamiliar issue, working outside your usual practice area, or addressing a question where you want another qualified legal professional to evaluate the research before you move forward. Importantly, the process is highly secure. You have the ability to mask personally identifiable information, and the review itself is double-blind—the submitter and reviewer are anonymous. 

LawY is included with your LEAP subscription at no extra cost, giving you access to both AI-assisted legal research and optional attorney verification, where available, within the tools you already use.

5. Don’t limit AI to legal analysis

Matter AI can support serious legal work, but that doesn't mean every prompt has to involve legal analysis. The same generative AI capabilities can also help with many of the everyday tasks surrounding the practice of law.

You might use AI to help:

• Draft or refine an email
• Turn lengthy notes into a concise action list
• Develop ideas for a firm blog or client newsletter
• Reformat information into a table or chart
• Create an agenda from a set of discussion points
• Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for a client meeting, court appearance, or speaking engagement
• Adjust writing for a different audience or tone
• Brainstorm questions for an upcoming meeting

Get more from the AI you already have

Using AI within LEAP can give you access to powerful capabilities while reducing the need to move matter information, documents, and work product between disconnected systems. It also keeps more of that work within a secure legal practice management environment designed around the confidentiality requirements of legal professionals.

You don't need to change your entire approach at once.

If you find yourself about to open a separate AI tool for part of your work, consider completing the same task in LEAP instead. Ask Matter AI to find a detail from a matter, summarize an email thread, compare documents, organize next steps, or help create a first draft.

Ready to grow your LEAP AI expertise? Explore LEAP University AI courses, join a LEAP Live Learning session, and reach out to your Client Success Manager for more learning opportunities.