Legal / Solicitors
Private AI for matter documents, with confidentiality designed in.
Legal work depends on reading, comparing and drafting large volumes of documents under strict confidentiality. Private AI can help fee earners and support staff work through that material faster, in an environment the firm controls.
Use cases
Key AI use cases
Use cases that support legal work. Advice and judgement always stay with the lawyer.
Matter document search
Ask questions across the documents on a matter and see exactly which documents and passages an answer relies on.Bundle and contract summaries
Summarise bundles, contracts and correspondence, highlighting key dates, parties and clauses.First drafts
Prepare first drafts of letters and standard documents from the firm's precedents.Chronologies
Build draft chronologies from correspondence and documents for a fee earner to verify.
Who it helps
Built around the people doing the work
Who it helps
- Solicitors and fee earners
- Paralegals and legal assistants
- Knowledge and precedent teams
- Risk and compliance partners
Challenges we often hear
- Large volumes of documents on each matter
- Client confidentiality and privilege that rule out public AI tools
- Precedents and know-how that are hard to find
- Time pressure on reading and first drafts
How it works
From matter documents to a verified summary
An example of document review support within a single matter.
Your information
- Matter documents
- Correspondence
- Firm precedents
- Know-how and practice notes
Private AI environment
- Hosted in an environment you control
- Searches only what each user may access
- Shows the sources behind each answer
What your team gets
- Answers citing matter documents
- Summaries and chronologies
- First drafts from precedents
Open the matter
Matter documents are available in the firm's private environment, with matter-level access.
Ask a question
A fee earner asks, for example, for the key obligations in a contract.
Search this matter only
The assistant searches only the documents on that matter.
Answer with citations
It answers with references to the documents and passages used.
Fee earner verifies
The fee earner checks each citation and applies their own legal judgement.
Benefits
What it can mean for your organisation
The outcomes we design for. Results depend on your data, people and processes, and are agreed with you rather than assumed.
Faster document review
Less time reading to find the passages that matter.
Confidentiality maintained
Client documents stay in an environment the firm controls.
Precedents put to use
First drafts built from the firm's own materials.
Checkable answers
Every answer points to the source documents.
Capabilities
AI capabilities and recommended models
AI capabilities
- Question answering with citations
- Summarising bundles and contracts
- Drafting from precedents
- Building draft chronologies
- Reading scanned documents
Recommended model types
General-purpose language model
Hosted in your environment for summarising and drafting.
Embedding model for document search
Finds the most relevant passages across matter documents.
Document reading (OCR)
Converts scanned documents and older files into searchable text.
Specific models are chosen during design based on your data, languages, accuracy needs and infrastructure, and explained in plain language.
Integrations
Works alongside your existing systems
Typical systems we plan around. Integrations depend on the systems you use and the access they allow, and are confirmed during design.
- Document management systems
- Practice and case management systems
- Precedent and know-how libraries
- Office productivity tools
Security & compliance
Security, privacy and compliance
Security is considered throughout design, deployment and operation, and discussed openly.
In every environment
- Designed so your data is not shared with public AI services
- Access tied to your own users and permissions
- Hosting location agreed with you
- Configuration documented, so it is never a black box
Considerations for Legal / Solicitors
- Client documents kept out of public AI services
- Access controlled at matter level, including information barriers where needed
- Confidentiality, privilege and SRA obligations reviewed with the firm during design
- Lawyers remain responsible for all advice and documents
Compliance stays with you and your advisers
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