I am a Czech attorney based in Prague 1 with more than 15 years of practice, and I work in English. Artificial intelligence does the research and the document review; I do the assessment, the verification and the signature. Send me your documents: within two working days you will know whether and on what terms I can help.
An attorney who uses AI as a tool. The phrase “AI lawyer” often suggests a robot answering instead of a lawyer. With me it is the other way round: I am an attorney registered with the Czech Bar Association under reg. no. 16037, and artificial intelligence is my working tool. Every output you receive from me has been read, verified and signed by me.
An AI lawyer online is usually a chatbot. Under the name AI lawyer you will mostly find software that answers a legal question for a few crowns or for free. The operators of such services state themselves that they do not provide legal advice, and there is no attorney behind the answer who would be liable to you for it. In the Czech Republic only an attorney registered with the Czech Bar Association may provide legal services; an attorney is bound by confidentiality, is liable for damage and is insured against it. If you are looking for an AI lawyer because you want fast and more affordable legal help that is actually right, you are looking for an attorney who knows how to work with AI.
Humans think, AI does the heavy lifting.
My hourly rate is in line with standard practice in Prague. The difference is in the number of hours. Reading and sorting documents, searching case law or comparing contract versions used to take days; with AI I do it much faster.
I only bill the time I actually spent on your matter, and you receive a breakdown with the invoice.
I complete case-law and statutory research in a fraction of the time, so I can review more decisions than would otherwise be worthwhile. I read every decision I rely on in full.
You get the result quickly and in a clear structure: conclusion and recommendation first, then the reasons and sources.
Before anything goes out, I check every citation, amount, date and deadline against the source documents.
Before a hearing, I analyse from published judgments how the particular judge decides.
What AI does for me and what it never does. AI goes through hundreds of pages of a case file, finds inconsistencies in a contract, compares case law and prepares the first draft of a submission. It does not decide what is best for you, it does not negotiate with the other side and it does not stand in court for you. That remains my job. The process is the same for a contract, a dispute or a corporate matter; only the documents and the output change.
You send me contracts, correspondence and decisions. AI sorts them, builds a timeline of events and lists the disputed points.
I build the assessment in steps: material facts, issues, applicable rules, their application and a tentative conclusion. AI suggests options, I decide.
I read every statutory provision in its current wording and every decision in full text. AI is a good analyst but a poor source of truth, so I never trust its citations from memory.
You receive the contract, submission or opinion in a form I have reviewed and am liable for. In a dispute, I represent you in court in person.
Using AI changes nothing about the duties I have as an attorney under the law. I follow the Czech Bar Association’s interpretative opinion on artificial intelligence in legal services (in Czech) of 9 September 2026: AI is a permissible tool, but the attorney is responsible for the result, must verify AI output before using it in a legal service and may enter confidential data only into tools with contractual and technical safeguards.
I am liable to you for harm caused in connection with the practice of law (Section 24(1) of the Legal Profession Act), and I am insured against it by law (Section 24a(1)).
Confidentiality (Section 21(1) of the Legal Profession Act) applies to work with AI as well. I use business versions of AI tools with contractual and technical confidentiality safeguards, whose terms prohibit training models on customer data.
I read legislation in the official Collection of Laws and court decisions in full text from court databases. I treat AI output as a draft to verify, never as a finished answer.
AI tools answer for a few euros or for free, but without assessing your matter and without liability. With me, the initial assessment of your documents is free; further work is billed at CZK 2,800 per hour for standard matters and CZK 3,700 for more complex cases, plus VAT, or at a fixed fee agreed in advance.
Send your documents and within two working days I will tell you whether and on what terms I can help. After reading them we can have a call; the first 20 minutes are free.
Indicatively CZK 2,800 per hour for standard matters and CZK 3,700 for more complex cases, plus VAT.
For specific services, a fixed amount or a success fee can be agreed in advance.
Routine work you would otherwise pay for in hours is done by AI. What remains on the invoice is mainly time for strategy, negotiation and review.
Describe your situation in two sentences and attach the documents. I will read them and within two working days tell you whether and on what terms I can help: how I would proceed and what it would cost. It is non-binding and free of charge.
Prefer not to use the form? E-mail me at tomas.elbert@advokatni.net or call +420 739 661 038.
An AI lawyer, in the sense I use the term, is an attorney registered with the Czech Bar Association who uses artificial intelligence in their work. It is not a chatbot giving advice instead of a lawyer. AI reads and sorts documents, searches case law and prepares first drafts for me; I assess the matter, verify the result and sign it. Unlike services marketed as AI lawyers, an attorney is liable for my work.
No. Online, an AI lawyer is usually a chatbot that answers questions and states itself that it does not provide legal advice. An attorney who works with AI is registered with the Czech Bar Association, uses AI as a tool and is liable for the result. If you want advice you can rely on, look for an attorney, not for software.
The hourly rate is comparable to other attorneys, the number of hours is lower. The savings are greatest where there are many documents: an extensive case file, a series of contracts or long correspondence. I only bill the time I actually spent on your matter.
For simple matters, a general AI tool can help you on your own, for instance to understand a contract or write a payment reminder. But it only knows what you tell it, it often cites case law incorrectly and it is not liable for its answer. Once a larger amount, a court dispute or a hard-to-reverse contract is at stake, an attorney who masters AI and verifies its output is worth it.
The routine part of the work, yes: reading documents, research, first drafts. What a client pays an attorney for, no: assessment, strategy, negotiation, representation and liability. According to a DirectCase survey of 170 Czech attorneys from March 2026, seven in ten already use AI at least several times a week and a third daily. Clients see it similarly: in the Legal & Business Insight 2026 survey of 102 business owners, 73 % do not believe AI will replace attorneys within five years. The difference is who verifies and signs the output.
Yes. In its interpretative opinion of 9 September 2026, the Czech Bar Association describes artificial intelligence as a permissible tool in the provision of legal services. The attorney remains responsible for the service, must verify AI output before using it in a legal service and may enter confidential information only into tools with contractual and technical confidentiality safeguards.
I am. Under Czech law, an attorney is liable to the client for harm caused in connection with the practice of law (Section 24(1) of the Legal Profession Act) and must be insured against it (Section 24a(1)). Using AI does not change that.
The duty of confidentiality (Section 21(1) of the Legal Profession Act) applies to work with AI as well. I use business versions of AI tools with contractual and technical confidentiality safeguards, whose terms prohibit training models on customer data.
Yes. Consultations, contracts and correspondence are in English. Court proceedings in the Czech Republic are conducted in Czech; I represent you in court and keep you informed in English, and an interpreter can be arranged for the hearing.
Send me your documents: within two working days I will tell you free of charge whether and on what terms I can help. If your income is too low for a lawyer (up to three times the subsistence minimum), the Czech Bar Association will on request appoint an attorney for a free consultation of up to 120 minutes a year; the application is a Czech-language form with a CZK 100 fee and the consultation is usually in person. Foreigners can also get free legal counselling at the Integration Centre Prague, mainly on residence matters.
Yes. My office is in Prague 1, Školská street, but I act throughout the Czech Republic. Contracts, corporate matters and consultations can be handled online; I attend court in person, and for distant courts I sometimes use a local substitute attorney to keep your costs down.
Yes, I run a hands-on workshop for law firms. Details are on the AI training for lawyers page.
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Call me: +420 739 661 038
Email me: tomas.elbert@advokatni.net
Office: Školská 694/32, 110 00 Prague 1
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