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What a UK law firm wants to know before, during and after bringing an assistant into its work. Short, practical and written to be checked, like everything else here.
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It can turn a transcript or rough notes into a structured draft note, which is often the slow part. The fee earner still decides what the meeting meant, what was advised and what goes on the file.
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Comparison software finds the differences. AI can go further and explain what those differences do, which clauses they touch and which ones matter, provided a fee earner checks the points that count against the documents themselves.
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Look past the price at the data terms, what the supplier promises about the output, who carries the risk, how the terms can change, and how you get out and get your material back.
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Privilege depends on confidentiality being kept, so the question is not whether AI is involved but who can see the material, where it is held and what the supplier may do with it. Get the answers in writing before any file goes near a tool.
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Yes, if the tool reads the whole document rather than part of it, points you at the passages it relied on, and you read those passages before you rely on the summary in advice or submissions.
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Give it the matter's papers in full rather than your own summary, a short note of what the matter is and what stage it is at, and one specific question. Vague inputs produce vague answers.
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AI can read a whole file and list every place an undertaking appears to have been given or received, with a page reference for each. It cannot decide whether wording binds the firm, and it does not replace your undertakings register.
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Treat AI tools like any other system holding client information: remove access on the leaver's last day, check what they used on live matters, and make sure their work is captured on the file rather than in an account nobody can open.
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Yes. If you send client papers to a costs draftsman, a transcription service or an agency paralegal, you remain responsible for confidentiality and for the quality of what comes back. Ask, record the answer, and put it in the contract.
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Measure at task level, not firm level. Pick a few repeated jobs, record how long they took before, then compare like with like including the time spent checking the output.
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Yes, for the mechanical parts: pulling the facts together, finding the page references, checking dates and figures, and producing a first draft note. The judgement about what to say, and the responsibility for it, stay with you.
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AI can compare your precedents against the current wording of the law and official guidance, flag clauses that look stale, and draft revisions. A qualified person still decides what the firm's standard wording should be.
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