We help law firms put generative AI to work in the practice and the business of law, with the confidentiality, supervision, and client-consent controls the profession requires. Led by a former law firm CTO who has done it from the inside.
Summarize 14 deposition transcripts and flag inconsistent testimony.
Associates paste clauses into consumer chatbots. Staff use free transcription apps on client calls. None of it is approved, logged, or supervised, and every instance is a potential confidentiality problem.
At the same time, clients are raising the bar. Outside counsel guidelines increasingly ask how firms use AI on their matters, and the ABA and state bars have made clear that the ordinary duties of competence, confidentiality, and supervision apply to these tools.
The firms that get this right will deliver faster, price more competitively, and answer client questions with confidence. The ones that don't will spend the next few years explaining incidents.
We treat them separately, because the risks, the users, and the returns are different.
GovernanceLift™ for law firms turns the ethics guidance into policies, controls, and workflows your lawyers actually follow.
Mapped to ABA Model Rules as discussed in ABA Formal Opinion 512 (2024) on generative AI tools. We also align policies to the guidance of the state bars where your firm practices. This is operational guidance, not legal advice.
Select a phase to see what we do and what the firm walks away with.
We interview practice leaders and staff, review systems and data, and surface where AI is already in use, approved or not. We also assess cybersecurity posture, because AI risk and security risk travel together.
We deploy GovernanceLift™, adapted to your firm, your clients, and your jurisdictions, and walk the policy through firm leadership and your general counsel.
We pick a high-value workflow, implement it with a willing practice group, and measure the result against the baseline we agreed. Then we expand what works.
AI tools and guidance keep changing. We stay on as your fractional CIO, CTO, or Chief AI Officer to manage vendors, update policy, and report to firm leadership, or hand off cleanly to your team.
"Partners don't adopt technology because it's impressive. They adopt it when it protects the client, saves them real time, and doesn't create a problem they'll have to explain later."
Clifford Forrester, Founder and Principal. Former CTO of Jackson Lewis P.C., with more than 20 years as CIO, CTO, and CDO in law and accounting firms.
We understand partnership economics, the billable hour, practice group politics, and why a tool that saves time can look like lost revenue.
Policy, confidentiality controls, and client consent are in place before a single workflow goes live.
Law firms are attractive targets. Every AI engagement includes a look at the security gaps AI can widen.
We help you choose between legal AI platforms and general tools based on your practice, not on a reseller agreement.
Where AI is already used, where it should be, and what stands in the way, including a cybersecurity review. You get a prioritized roadmap and a shadow AI inventory.
Request an assessmentA candid session for firm leadership on what AI can and cannot do in your practice, the ethics obligations, and the decisions the firm needs to make this year.
Book a briefingA firm AI policy, approved tools, client consent process, and audit trail, adapted to your practice areas and jurisdictions and ready for leadership approval.
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Tell us where your firm is with AI today. We'll give you a candid view of the risks, the opportunities, and a realistic first step.