Artificial intelligence transforms legal research when paired with effective prompting. This guide provides structured, actionable prompts designed to streamline your workflow. But, knowing how to ask the right questions is what unlocks AI's full potential.
Choose the right mode based on your research needs:
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A well-defined goal generates precise, relevant results. Without clarity, you risk receiving broad responses that require additional refinement.
✅ DO: Provide an overview of investor-state arbitration cases involving expropriation claims in the energy sector.
❌ DON'T: Provide information on investor-state disputes.
The more detailed your question, the more targeted your answer. Vague queries lead to incomplete results.
✅ DO: What are the grounds for annulment of an arbitration award in France?
❌ DON'T: How to get an award annulled?
Background details help Jus AI narrow its scope and deliver accurate answers. Include relevant facts, case details, or applicable rules.
✅ DO: How may an arbitrator be disqualified under the PCA Arbitration Rules 2012?
❌ DON'T: What are the reasons for disqualifying an arbitrator?
Enhance your research by uploading relevant materials directly into your conversation. You can now upload over 50 documents per conversation.
✅ DO: Upload your arbitration agreement, procedural order, and relevant case law, then ask: "Based on these documents, what are the potential jurisdictional challenges we may face?"
❌ DON'T: Describe the contents of multiple documents in your prompt instead of uploading them directly.
Narrow your search by filtering for specific content types; cases, treaties, rules, or publications, to improve relevance and eliminate unnecessary results.
✅ DO: Filter to "Publications" and ask: "Define the concept of competence-competence using scholarly sources."
❌ DON'T: Ask a broad question without filtering, then sort through mixed results of cases, rules, and commentary.
If the initial response isn't exhaustive, request additional depth or examples, or apply additional filters. AI is conversational, keep iterating until you reach the level of detail you need.
✅ DO: Go deeper. Tell me more about the objectivist approach to defining investment.
❌ DON'T: Give me more.
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Whether you need a legal memo, summary, or structured list, specify the output format to ensure the response matches your needs.
✅ DO: Draft a legal memo on the enforceability of arbitral awards under the New York Convention using this specific case.
❌ DON'T: I need to write a legal memo using this case to argue in favor of […]
While Jus AI can support your arbitrator research, its scope is currently limited. Jus AI can analyze reasoning patterns, arguments, and trends observed in documents when filters are applied but it does not suggest or list practitioners, run conflict checks, give opinions on individuals, or predict outcomes based on individuals.
What you can do: Use filters (like practitioner names) to map reasoning and arguments across documents. Focus your prompts on objective data in the documents, not on personal judgments.