AI Training and Operations Consulting for IP Law Firms

Helping IP law firms apply practical, secure AI in real patent prosecution workflows.

Discuss Your AI Strategy

For patent attorneys, IP firms, and legal teams navigating AI adoption

Patent attorney | Law professor | Former AI legal tech company president | Vendor-neutral

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AI that fits real patent work

If you're still figuring out where AI fits in your practice, you're in good company. I've spent 25+ years as a patent attorney and more than a decade leading an AI legal-tech company. Here's where I've landed: give the routine work to AI, and keep the judgment with the attorney.

That's the whole approach. In practice, it looks like this:

  • Deliver quality work within tight client budgets.

  • When AI handles the routine work your billable time goes to claims and strategy.

  • Match the right tool to the right task.

  • Rule-based automation and generative AI are good at different jobs. Knowing which is which saves both money and rework.

  • Get independent recommendations.

  • Protect client confidentiality from day one.

  • The plan you're on matters — enterprise and consumer AI plans treat your data very differently. Get an enterpriseplan anything AI touches client work.

A Practitioner's Perspective

Patent practice. 25+ years as a patent attorney, prosecuting patents and counseling clients on IP strategy.

Teaching. Adjunct professor at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, where I teach courses on patent prosecution, claim drafting, and AI Skills for Legal Professionals.

AI legal tech. Former president of an AI legal-tech company — I spent over a decade building automation tools for patent work, well before the current wave of AI.

Speaking. Frequent speaker on AI and IP at AIPLA, IPO, ILTA, BIO, and the National Docketing Association.

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    Tailored workshops and training sessions that equip your team with practical AI skills.

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    Strategic consulting to help legal departments leverage AI for increased productivity and profitability.

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  • "I have attended many AI discussions and presentations over the last couple of years, and this was the first time someone showed me how AI can be applied to what I do at work -- and it was inspiring!"

    Attendee feedback, “AI for Everyday Tasks in IP Docketing,” National Docketing Association Annual Meeting (anonymous evaluation)

  • "We are so fortunate to have professors like Ann McCrackin at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law! People who are thoughtful and practice-focused, who help our students hit the ground running."

    Megan Carpenter, Former Dean at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law

  • "This is by far the most practical and useful skill development course I have taken."

    LAW STUDENT

  • "Professor McCrackin is knowledgeable, highly competent, and engaging."

    LAW STUDENT

  • "She has a passion to foster learning. She has integrated AI into the course well and I think she is a positive impact on the patent community."

    LAW STUDENT