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Practice · 05
Legal AI Implementation

AI in legal work — implemented with a lawyer's discipline.

Consultancy for firms, law departments, and boards adopting AI: use-cases, tools, governance, and the safeguards that keep privilege and confidentiality intact.

The firm advises organisations that want AI working inside their legal function — not as a demo, but in the daily flow of intake, drafting, review, and correspondence. Engagements typically open with an audit of the workflows worth automating, then proceed through tool selection, confidentiality and privilege safeguards, governance policies, and a supervised rollout. The firm implements AI in its own trilingual practice; the advice comes from operating it, not observing it.

The work spans
  • Use-case selection — which legal workflows gain from AI, and which should stay human
  • Tool and vendor evaluation, including data-residency and confidentiality terms
  • Governance: usage policies, human-review gates, and audit trails for AI-assisted work
  • Privilege and confidentiality safeguards for client material in AI systems
  • Training and rollout — the habits that make adoption hold after the novelty fades
  • Your lawyers are already pasting client material into public chatbots, and there is no policy.
  • The firm or department wants AI for drafting or review but cannot risk privilege or confidentiality.
  • A vendor is pitching a legal-AI platform and no one can evaluate the claims.
  • The board asks what AI means for legal-function cost and risk, and needs a straight answer.
  • Regulation is moving — the EU AI Act, privacy law — and the current setup was never assessed against it.

The firm treats an AI rollout the way it treats a dispute: map the terrain before moving. It starts from the organisation's actual matters and documents, selects the narrowest tool that solves a real bottleneck, and puts a human-approval gate on anything that leaves the building. Policies are written to be enforced, not framed. What worked — and what failed — in the firm's own implementation is what shapes the advice.

04 · What you get

A written adoption map

An audit of your legal workflows: where AI pays, where it does not, and in what order — on paper, with the costs and risks stated plainly.

Counsel who runs it in practice

The advice comes from a firm that implements AI in its own trilingual practice — intake, document workflows, correspondence — under human review.

Governance that holds

Usage policies, human-review gates, and audit trails written to be enforced — so AI-assisted work remains defensible work.

Confidentiality first

Every recommendation is screened against privilege, client confidentiality, and data-protection duties before it reaches your stack.

05 · Representative matters

The firm's own practice

The consultancy is grounded in the firm's own implementation: an AI-assisted, trilingual practice platform for intake, scheduling, and document preparation — every output gated behind human approval.

Template-driven document automation

Document workflows designed so AI prepares from firm-approved templates only, with citations required and partner sign-off before anything is sent.

Confidentiality architecture for AI-assisted drafting

Designing which document classes may pass through which systems, so efficiency gains never touch the most sensitive tier of client material.

Supervised rollout across a working team

A phased introduction — training, sandboxing, then live use with review checkpoints — turning an informal habit into a governed capability.

Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.

Can we use AI on client files without breaching confidentiality?

Yes — with the right architecture. It depends on where the data goes, what the vendor may retain, and which safeguards sit in between. The engagement's first deliverable maps exactly that for your stack, before any tool touches a client file.

Which legal tasks should AI handle first?

The repetitive, template-shaped ones: intake summaries, first-draft correspondence, document assembly from approved precedents. High-judgment work — strategy, advocacy, advice — stays human. The adoption map ranks your workflows by gain and by risk.

Do we need an AI policy before we adopt any tools?

You need one now, even before adopting anything — informal use is already happening in most organisations. A short, enforceable policy with human-review gates protects privilege before the first licence is bought.

What does the EU AI Act or privacy law mean for our use of AI?

It depends on your role in the system and the data involved. The assessment reads your intended uses against the applicable framework — the EU AI Act where it reaches you, and the data-protection law that governs your client material — and states what is required, in plain language.

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