Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in practice for a relatively short time. The first attempts to apply AI to analyze legal discourse date back to the late 1990s. Nowadays, AI is widely implemented in various areas of law, such as predicting the outcome of court cases, risk assessment, contract analysis, and more. This research focuses on methods and prospects of using AI tools in the analysis of legal discourse. The authors draw on theoretical foundations of the analysis of legal texts, present a brief history of AI development, provide an overview of the tools used in the research of the legal field, and map up the prospects for using AI in various fields of legal discourse. The research is conducted to identify the potential of AI technologies in optimizing lawyers’ work connected with legal texts so that they can focus on activities requiring human experience, which will eventually improve the quality of justice. Besides, the study is of great assistance to the linguistic research community as it proposes a repository of AI-based methods of analysis applicable to legal discourse.