REFERENCE SCENARIO / LEGAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Private AI for a mid-size law firm.
Explore how a firm could bring document review and drafting assistants inside its own perimeter, with access decided matter by matter and every use recorded.
Reference scenario built on fictional organizational details and synthetic data. It is not a client engagement or a report of measured results.
THE STARTING POINT
Privileged knowledge. Pressure to use AI.
In this fictional scenario, some lawyers have started pasting clauses into public AI tools on personal accounts. The firm's knowledge sits in a document management system organized by client and matter, with ethical walls between some teams. Partners want drafting support without exposing privileged material or weakening those walls.
- Which matters may an assistant read, and for whom?
- Where are prompts, documents and drafts processed and stored?
- How are ethical walls enforced when content is retrieved?
- Who reviews an AI-assisted draft before it reaches a client?
- Can the firm show which sources informed a given output?