AI prompts for property lawyers
Commercial leases are long, dense and full of the provisions clients least understand. AI is well suited to reviewing them and explaining them — done carefully.
- Lease review is a natural fit for AI: long documents, recurring provisions, a clear client-explanation need.
- Focus the review on the provisions that carry real risk: repair, break, rent review, alienation, service charge, security of tenure.
- Always review from the actual lease against your client's position — landlord or tenant.
A commercial lease is exactly the kind of document AI handles well: long, structured, and built from provisions that recur across deals. And it's exactly the kind of document clients struggle with — which makes the plain-English explanation as valuable as the review itself.
What to focus the review on
Whether you act for landlord or tenant changes everything, so that's the first thing the model needs to know. From there, the review should concentrate on the provisions that actually carry risk:
- Repairing covenant — the standard the client is held to, and what dilapidations means in practice.
- Break clause — the conditions that must be met, and the risk of a break failing for non-compliance.
- Rent review — the basis, and whether it's upward-only.
- Alienation — the client's ability to assign or sublet, and so to exit.
- Service charge — what's included, and whether it's capped.
- Security of tenure — whether the 1954 Act protection applies or has been excluded.
The Lawyer's Prompt — book + 15 Claude skills
Everything in this guide, built into tools you install once. Solicitor-trained skills that draft, review and verify to your house style, with the Ayinde discipline built in — and the book that explains the standard behind them.
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The second half of the job is translation: explaining each of those provisions to the client in terms they understand, before they sign. "Full repairing and insuring" means nothing to a business owner until you tell them what it will cost them. AI is excellent at this register — provided the underlying review is right, which is your job to confirm.
Keeping it sound
The Ayinde duty applies here too: any case or statutory provision the model cites about, say, security of tenure or break conditions is checked against the source. The model drafts; you verify and adopt.
The skill for this work
The Lawyer's Prompt includes a Lease Review & Client Letter skill that reviews the lease against your client's position and drafts the plain-English explanation in one pass, with verification flags built in. See AI contract review for the general method.
Related: commercial and employment prompt guides.