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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 workable AI policy names the tools people may use, the work they may use them for, what must never be pasted into a general tool, and who checks the output before it leaves the firm.
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In most cases yes, because your policy responds to the legal work you deliver, not the tools you used. The risk is not a gap in cover but a claim you could have avoided, and a renewal form you answered carelessly.
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There is no blanket duty to announce every tool you use, but clients must understand what they are paying for and who sees their information. Most firms handle this with a short line in the engagement letter and a fuller answer when asked.
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Open the source, read the passage, check the jurisdiction and the date, look for what the assistant said it could not find, and ask for the working on anything counted. Five steps that take minutes and are the whole safeguard.
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For drafting a first paragraph, often. For anything involving a client's information or a point of law you will rely on, only with rules the firm has actually written down. The tool matters less than what goes into it and what is done with what comes out.
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Where the information is held and processed, who can see it, whether it trains anything, how firms are kept apart, and what happens when you leave. Seven questions, and the answers a careful firm should expect in writing.
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Yes, if the assistant shows its sources and the fee earner checks them. What changes is not whether research can be delegated but how it is verified, and who is responsible when it is relied on.
Read the answerCreate an account, open a matter and put a real question to it. Every point it makes names where it came from.
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