Showalter PLLC's practice is built around the systematic use of frontier artificial intelligence (principally Anthropic's Claude) as a research, drafting, and analysis instrument under senior-lawyer direction at every stage of a matter.
The AI performs the tasks that traditional firms staff with junior associates: doctrinal research, record review, case synthesis, first-pass drafting of subsections, citation compilation, and iterative revision against stylistic and substantive criteria. Mr. Showalter develops the strategy, directs the analysis, exercises judgment over every sentence, and owns every word that leaves the firm. The AI is the instrument; the lawyer is the author.
That workflow compresses the time required to produce a polished work product by a factor of roughly three. The compression is passed to clients in the form of flat fees rather than to the firm in the form of higher hourly rates.
Every citation in every filing is verified against the actual opinion text retrieved from primary legal databases. No citation is included on the word of a model.
Every argument, factual assertion, and strategic recommendation is decided by Mr. Showalter. The AI drafts under direction; it does not decide.
The firm's preferred AI platform, Anthropic's Cowork, operates in isolated sessions with no model training on inputs. For clients who require the strongest contractual framework, Showalter PLLC also maintains an Anthropic API account under commercial terms with a Data Processing Addendum that prohibits training on inputs, imposes mutual confidentiality obligations, and requires AES-256 encryption at rest.
The firm does not run client-confidential work through consumer chatbots or untrusted third-party wrappers.