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PI work is a race against the statute of limitations. Here’s how to evaluate legal AI for demand letters, medical chronologies, and deadlines.

By The Draftiro team · Legal product· 8 min read·Published

Personal-injury practice is a race: statutes of limitation, medical-record chasing, demand letters, and citation-heavy briefs, all on a contingency clock. The right AI tool pulls that race into one workspace; the wrong one is a research engine that does nothing for your demand-letter pipeline or your deadlines.

What PI practice demands

  • Statute-of-limitations precision. Miss it and the case is gone. Dates must be computed, not estimated.
  • Leveraged drafting. The demand letter sets the carrier's reserve — it's the highest-leverage document you write.
  • Medical-record synthesis. Turning a stack of records into a clean chronology is hours of grunt work.

Why BigLaw-priced tools don't fit

Harvey (~$1,000+/attorney/mo), CoCounsel (~$225–$500), and Lexis+ AI (~$200–$400) are built for deep research. PI is drafting-, synthesis-, and deadline-heavy. On a contingency model, paying enterprise per-seat prices for research depth you rarely use is the wrong trade.

What to look for

  1. Demand-letter drafting with anchored damages methodology and citation-validated comparable-verdict references.
  2. Medical chronology generation from uploaded records.
  3. Statute-of-limitations and court-day math with the right holiday sets and an honest advisory.
  4. Citation validation against CourtListener, so a hallucinated comparable-verdict cite never leaves the building.
  5. Pricing that respects a contingency practice — free to start, paid from $29/mo.

How Draftiro fits PI practice

Upload the records and the police report, draft the demand with a documented damages methodology, run a conflict check, and let the calendar hold the statute of limitations. Every AI exchange logs a clean, ABA Op. 512–compliant time entry. See the personal-injury workspace or compare Draftiro to Clio Work.

The tool runs the race's busywork. You keep the strategy and the client.

This article was published by the Draftiro team and reviewed by our attorney advisors. See our team and how we track AI ethics opinions.

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