AI is having an increasing impact in the legal world. But how do you ask the right questions to procure the best results? To help legal professionals get started, we have developed a prompt library: a collection of carefully drafted AI prompts, specifically tailored to legal use cases. The library is freely accessible and developed with one clear objective: sharing knowledge and jointly building better legal AI solutions. In this blog, we explain how the prompt library works, how you can use it, and why we choose to make this project available as an open knowledge resource.
Why a legal prompt library?
AI can support legal professionals with tasks such as contract analysis, legal research and document drafting. But to make AI truly useful, it is essential to ask the right questions. Many lawyers are already experimenting with AI, but encounter practical obstacles:
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How do you ensure that AI interprets legal information correctly?
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Which prompts deliver the most useful answers?
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How can you use AI efficiently without having to reinvent the right wording every time?
With these questions in mind, we created the prompt library: a collection of ready-to-use, optimised prompts that lawyers can use immediately and adapt to their own practice.
How does it work?
The prompt library is a growing collection of prompts that support a wide range of legal applications, including:
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Contract analysis: helping AI identify and summarise relevant clauses.
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Legal research: asking targeted questions to use AI effectively as a research tool.
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Drafting and editing texts: using AI for draft contracts or policy documents.
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Compliance checks: letting AI assist with privacy rules or sector-specific legislation.
The prompts are freely accessible via , allowing anyone to use and improve them. We invite lawyers, legal tech specialists and researchers to contribute and help build an ever stronger set of prompts.
Why open knowledge sharing?
We deliberately choose to make this knowledge openly available. The prompt library is released under a Creative Commons BY-SA licence. This means that:
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Anyone may use the prompts freely, for both commercial and non-commercial purposes.
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Anyone who adapts or redistributes the prompts must apply the same licence. This ensures that improvements remain accessible to the entire legal sector.
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ICTRecht must always be credited as the source.
Why do we do this? Because we believe that legal AI should not be something developed only by large tech companies or specialised firms. By openly sharing AI prompts, we make legal AI more accessible, more efficient and more reliable.
The link with our AI research
The prompt library is not a standalone initiative. We have been researching the use of AI in the legal domain for some time. We analyse how AI processes substantive legal questions and critically assess its reliability and practical applicability. Through this research, we aim to contribute to a responsible and effective use of AI in the law.
The prompt library is a practical expression of this ambition: a concrete tool that helps lawyers use AI in a smarter and more careful way. We continue to follow developments closely and work on new initiatives that bring AI and law closer together. Lawyers who think along, experiment and provide feedback play a key role in this process.
Join in: use, improve and share
We invite everyone to explore the prompt library and start using it. You can:
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Use the prompts directly in your daily legal work.
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Propose new prompts that may be useful to others.
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Improve existing prompts and contribute to an increasingly intelligent legal AI toolkit.
Together, we can make AI more accessible and more effective for the entire legal sector.
