Sectors · Law firms
AI for law firms, without compromising client confidentiality.
A law firm lives on its judgement, yet spends many hours on work that doesn’t need it: finding its own precedent, preparing the first draft, sorting enquiries, tracking deadlines. That’s where well-implemented AI gives time back.
Talk about your caseIn short
In a law firm, AI is most useful for searching the firm’s own documents, preparing first drafts, sorting incoming enquiries and supporting deadline tracking, always reviewed by a lawyer. The condition is both technical and contractual: client information must not leave the authorised perimeter or be used to train models.
Where AI helps in a law firm
Search across your own archive
The firm’s pleadings, opinions and contracts searchable in plain language, with the exact reference for every passage cited.
First drafts
Letters, formal demands or clauses based on your templates, so the lawyer starts from a text rather than a blank page.
Incoming enquiries
Emails and forms sorted by practice area and urgency, with a summary and assignment to the right lawyer.
Document review
A first pass over contracts or lengthy files to locate clauses, dates and amounts, which the lawyer then checks.
Follow-up and reminders
Deadline and task reminders based on the case file, supporting your practice management system.
Legal updates
A regular summary of new legislation and case law in your practice areas, with a link to the official source.
The conditions we set
- AI providers with a data processing agreement and data excluded from training; models hosted on your own infrastructure when sensitivity requires it.
- Every answer cites the document it comes from: the lawyer checks, the AI doesn’t sign.
- Individual access rights and usage logs, so you know who looked up what.
- An internal AI use policy for the team, which stops client data being pasted into unauthorised tools.
How we start
With a conversation and, if it makes sense, a focused AI audit: which tasks eat up the most non-billable hours, what documentation the firm has and in what state, and which tools the team already uses. That produces a first project, almost always an internal search tool or enquiry sorting, tested with a small group before it’s rolled out.
We know the sector well: part of our communications work is for a law firm in Paris.
How we work with you
- 1
We listen
A first conversation, with no commitment, to understand the problem the way your team actually lives it. The fix is often simpler than it looks, and if so, we’ll tell you.
- 2
We propose
Fixed scope, timeline and price, in writing, before we start. We look for what makes sense for both sides: no open-ended hours and no surprises on the invoice.
- 3
We build
Short delivery cycles: you see real progress every week and test it on your own cases, not on a staged demo.
- 4
We stay
Maintenance, adjustments and direct support from the same person who built it. Everything is documented and in your name.
Frequently asked questions
Can a law firm use AI without breaching client confidentiality?
Yes, as long as you control where the data goes: providers with a data processing agreement, exclusion from training, restricted access and, for the most sensitive material, models hosted on your own infrastructure. On top of that, a lawyer always reviews what the AI produces before it’s used.
Can AI draft court filings?
It can prepare a first draft from the firm’s templates and the facts it’s given, but the final wording, the strategy and checking the citations are the lawyer’s job. That’s how we design it: the AI proposes, the lawyer decides.
What about AI hallucinations?
We reduce the risk by having the system answer only from specific documents and cite every source, so any statement can be checked in seconds. Even so, no output is used without review.
Is AI training for staff mandatory?
The EU AI Act requires organisations that use AI systems to take measures so their staff have a sufficient level of AI knowledge. A use policy and short, practical training are usually the starting point; for your situation, check with your adviser.
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