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Practice · 05
Legal AI Implementation

AI in professional practice, with a lawyer accountable.

Aun & Co. helps firms and businesses adopt AI safely: governance, confidentiality, vendor review and supervised rollout — grounded in the firm's own daily use.

Legal AI Implementation is guidance for organisations that want AI working inside their practice without gambling their confidentiality, privilege or regulatory standing. It is grounded in lived experience: Aun & Co. runs AI in its own operations — intake, scheduling, document preparation — with every output behind human approval. The firm advises on adoption the way it practises adoption: capability first, control always.

The work spans
  • AI adoption roadmaps matched to an organisation's real workflows
  • Vendor and tool evaluation: data handling, terms, exit and lock-in
  • AI usage policies and governance frameworks with clear approval gates
  • Confidentiality and privilege protection in AI-assisted work
  • Regulatory readiness reviews and supervised team rollout
  • Your team already uses AI tools informally and no policy governs what they paste into them.
  • A vendor's terms are dense and you cannot tell what happens to your clients' data.
  • A regulator, insurer or client has asked how AI is governed inside your organisation.
  • You want AI efficiency in document work without exposing privileged material.
  • Leadership approved AI adoption and someone must now make it safe and real.

The firm implements before it recommends. Each tool the firm advises on is assessed against the same tests applied internally: where the data goes, who can see it, what the vendor's terms actually permit, and where the human approval gate sits. Deliverables are operational — a policy people can follow, a checklist a vendor must pass — not slideware.

04 · What you get

Practitioner, not theorist

The advice comes from a firm that runs AI in its own legal practice daily — every recommendation has been tested on the firm's own files first.

Governance people follow

Policies written at the level of the actual workflow: what may be pasted where, who approves what, and what gets logged.

Privilege kept intact

Data flows are designed so AI assistance does not become an accidental waiver of confidentiality or professional privilege.

Vendor terms decoded

Training rights, retention, sub-processors and jurisdiction pulled out of the fine print and translated into a go or no-go decision.

05 · Representative matters

AI governance framework for a professional office

The firm has built usage policies defining approved tools, prohibited inputs and human-approval gates, sized for small professional teams rather than enterprises.

Vendor evaluation for document-automation tooling

A structured review of competing tools' data-handling terms, producing a comparison an operations lead could act on without reading a single contract.

Confidentiality architecture for AI-assisted drafting

Designing which document classes may pass through which systems, so efficiency gains never touch the most sensitive tier of client material.

Supervised rollout across a working team

A phased introduction — training, sandboxing, then live use with review checkpoints — turning an informal habit into a governed capability.

Described in abbreviated, anonymised form to preserve client confidentiality.

Can lawyers and professionals use AI without breaching confidentiality?

Yes, if the data flow is controlled: choosing tools whose terms exclude training on your inputs, restricting what may be submitted, and keeping a human approval gate on outputs. The breach risk is in unmanaged habits, not in the technology itself.

What should an AI usage policy include?

Approved tools, prohibited input categories, human-review requirements, logging, and an owner responsible for the policy. It should fit on a few pages and match how people actually work — a policy nobody follows protects nobody.

How do you evaluate an AI vendor's terms?

Four questions first: does the vendor train on your data, where is it stored and for how long, who are the sub-processors, and what happens on exit. If the terms cannot answer these plainly, that is itself the answer.

What does the first AI readiness review cover?

An inventory of tools already in use — formally and informally — a map of what data currently flows into them, and a gap list against confidentiality and regulatory duties. It ends with a prioritised, realistic adoption roadmap.

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