Internal know-how, not client files
What interests AI labs is the record of how careful legal work is put together. Most of this exists outside individual client files:
- Precedent banks and templates, with the thinking behind each clause
- Checklists, memos on research and training materials written for your lawyers
- Intake, staffing and matter workflow records from your practice management system
- Billing narratives with all names and identifiers removed
Names and matters are swapped for placeholders
In anything that remains in scope, placeholders replace clients, the parties on the other side, your lawyers and your staff. The same applies to every matter number and identifier. Before anything goes out, you review a sample and approve it, so you see exactly what a buyer would see.
You keep your precedents
Your original documents never leave your systems, and no one asks for passwords. What buyers license is the prepared copy of your approved material, used for model training and testing. If a practice group, template collection or period is core to the firm, you can keep it out.
Privileged material is taken out
Any privileged or confidential material is stripped from the copy. The firm and its counsel decide whether anything linked to clients has a place in scope, and legal advice on it is not ours to give. You can keep client matters out in full. Plenty of firms begin and end with internal know-how only.
When in doubt about a folder or practice group, the easy choice is to exclude it.
A practical first step for firms
Get the estimate first, and on the first short call ask whatever your lawyers will need answered. A list helps, and many firms bring one covering the systems in discussion, how placeholders get applied and the sample process. Your counsel can look at the prepared sample ahead of any release, and the firm may stop whenever it likes before it approves. No client name or document is required for the estimate, and practice area never affects the range.
Questions firms usually start with
Is there any cost to the firm?
No. You pay nothing at any step.
Can law firms join in?
That is a question for your counsel, not for us. We can explain how it all works, while your lawyers judge what, if anything, suits your duties.
Is our first call confidential?
Yes. It all begins under an NDA, and sharing happens only once you approve.
See my firm's starting point.
It depends on the size of the firm and its age. The number is the same for every practice area.
How many employees does your company have?
Indicative estimate based on your answers. Not an offer or guarantee.