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by giantg2 321 days ago
Shop around for rates. Lawyers should be able to give you cost or cost range up front for drafting a document.

Don't use AI. If it's a standard standard type of document with fairly low risk, you could look up templates specific to your jurisdiction. So some research on what those documents should contain and read through several. Then pick the one you think is the best. This can work for things like setting up an LLC, sales contracts for common types of work/items, etc. It's not a good idea for more complicated things like divorce agreements, complicated and novel B2B agreements, etc.

When using AI, you have to have enough domain knowledge to recognize when it's giving you junk answers. This might be easy and lower risk when you're asking it to make you a static website, or write your school paper for you. Things like legal topics may have a lot of nuance that makes it harder to identify the low quality responses.