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Ask Better Questions. Get Better AI.
The legal AI market is full of big promises, shifting standards, and fast-moving innovation. But what most teams need right now isn’t more hype. It’s clarity.
The AI Buyer’s Guide – Fall 2025 helps legal teams and procurement leaders make smarter, faster decisions about artificial intelligence. Whether you’re comparing vendors, exploring use cases, or simply figuring out where to start, this guide gives you the questions to ask, the red flags to avoid, and the context you need to move forward with confidence.
From integration and privacy to performance and long-term vision, this guide focuses on what matters most and leaves the buzzwords behind. If you’re evaluating AI for legal, this is where to begin.
Prompt Like a Pro Using AI
Using AI Effectively in Legal Workflows
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT are changing how legal teams work — making it easier to draft documents, analyze contracts, and manage everyday tasks. But to get the best results, it all starts with how you prompt.
In this webinar, Prompt Like a Pro: Best Practices in AI Prompting for Legal Professionals, Onit’s legal and AI experts share practical, real-world strategies for using Large Language Models (LLMs) effectively and responsibly in legal settings. Whether you’re new to generative AI or looking to take your skills further, you’ll walk away with insights you can put to work right away.
In this webinar, we will:
- Help legal professionals improve the way they use AI through better prompting
- Go beyond “Summarize by Document”
- Share practical techniques
Is Your Legal Tech Still Working on Your Terms?
Legal ops is moving fast. If your tech stack feels slow, scattered, or stuck in the past, it might be time for a gut check.
This quick checklist helps legal teams spot the signals of friction, complexity, and uncertainty that often mean a platform is no longer serving the team. No fluff. Just a clear-eyed look at whether your tools are keeping up or holding you back.
Use this checklist if:
- Simple tasks feel unnecessarily complex
- Innovation has stalled and roadmaps are unclear
- Your team is adapting to the platform instead of the platform adapting to you
- AI features feel disconnected or surface-level
- Support only shows up when something breaks
Modern legal ops needs a platform that is unified, AI-powered, and built to grow with you.
Gut check your platform. Confirm your direction. Move forward on your terms.
SimpleLegal Automates the Budget Request Lifecycle
You want to focus on legal work, not follow up emails. With SimpleLegal you can automate how you request, collect, and manage matter-level budgets.
SimpleLegal is built for legal ops professionals who want to:
- Eliminate the manual chaos of budget collection
- Gain real-time insight into budget vs. accruals
- Improve accuracy of legal spend forecasting
- Strengthen law firm alignment on matter costs
Inside the datasheet, you’ll discover:
- A detailed overview of how SimpleLegal automates the budget request lifecycle
- How customizable reminders keep budgets accurate and timely
- Ways budget updates from law firms interact with accruals and invoice approval
- A visual example of how a request is configured (see the “Create Budget Request” form on the right of the datasheet image)
- Real-world benefits like reduced admin work and improved law firm accountability
Tired of budget misalignment and last-minute surprises? Download the datasheet and learn how budget request automation with SimpleLegal can bring structure (and sanity) back to your legal budgeting process.
Total Cost Transparency Starts with Smarter Allocations
Discover how legal teams are organizing spend across entities, cost centers, and geographies with pinpoint precision.
SimpleLegal makes allocating legal costs easy and straightforward, providing the functionality needed to ensure data matches exactly with your finance system’s chart of accounts.
SimpleLegal is built for legal operations leaders who want:
- Complete visibility into how legal dollars are spent
- Accurate reporting across legal entities or business units
- Seamless coordination with their finance system’s chart of accounts
- Automation that reduces repetitive invoice coding
- Flexibility to define allocation rules without IT bottlenecks
Inside the downloadable datasheet, you’ll see:
- How SimpleLegal enables line-item allocation down to 0.25% granularity
- An illustrated workflow for quickly modifying allocations
- How allocation data auto-inherits from matters, no re-entry required
- Ways to customize GL strings with no character limit
- The role of allocations in improving short- and long-term financial planning
Want to stop guessing and start tracking with smarter allocations? Download the datasheet and see how SimpleLegal makes legal cost allocations simple, accurate, and audit-ready.