An Attorney Builds a Private AI Paralegal
Erick Holguin of Perez Law connected AI to real legal research sources and is building a private AI paralegal that drafts case responses with citations.
Erick practices eminent domain and business litigation, and came into the intensive as a non-technical operator.
What mattered most to him was getting AI to work with the sources lawyers actually rely on. He began using AI integrations with legal research databases and started building what he describes as a junior AI paralegal: a tool that drafts case responses for clients and pulls the citations to support them.
The point is not to replace the lawyer. It is to take the first-draft weight off his plate, the drafting and the citation-gathering, so he can spend his time on the substantive legal work that needs his judgment. He does all of it privately, with client confidentiality intact.
He left with the working pattern and a clear next build, and the capability stays in his own hands.
AI has improved the efficiency of my services, the quality of my work product, and reduced my overhead by close to 90%. I now get to focus on high-level lawyering and strategy because the mundane administrative tasks and low-level lawyering tasks are now handled by AI. The Curious Builder's intensive helped me take my legal tech stack to a new level.