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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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A ban on its own rarely holds. Give people an approved tool that does the job, write one short rule about what must never be pasted anywhere else, and make it easy to ask before trying something new.
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Name one person as owner of AI in the firm, keep regulatory accountability with the compliance officer, and leave each fee earner responsible for the work that goes out under their name.
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Treat it as you would any error by a member of staff: contain it, work out how far it travelled, put it right, and record what happened. The tool is not the responsible party; the firm is.
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Not the evidence itself. AI can build the chronology, gather the document references and tidy the structure, but the account must come from the witness in the witness's own words.
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Yes, but you can only charge for time you actually spent, and the total still has to be fair and reasonable. If AI cuts the hours, either the bill falls or you agree a different basis with the client in advance.
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Run a short trial on real matters with a small named group, decide in advance what a good result looks like, and check the confidentiality position before any client papers go near the tool.
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AI can build a first map of an unfamiliar file quickly: what happened, when, who said what, and where the gaps are. The fee earner still has to read the documents that matter and decide what the file means.
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Record what the AI was asked to do, what a fee earner checked, and what the fee earner concluded. The file needs to show human judgement, not a transcript of every prompt.
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It depends on how predictable your usage is. Subscriptions suit steady, firm-wide use; pay per use suits firms still testing whether AI earns its keep, and it fails cheaply if it does not.
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Supervision of AI-assisted work is the same duty you already owe, applied to a new tool: set the boundaries, review the output, and keep the qualified person accountable for what leaves the firm.
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AI can read a set of papers page by page, help you index and cross-reference them, and flag pages it could not read, but the final bundle and its accuracy remain the fee earner's responsibility.
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AI can count dates from the papers and show the working, with each step tied to the rule that allows it. The firm's diary system still governs, and a fee earner must check the result.
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