AI for law firms, with a solicitor checking every output

The SRA’s Risk Outlook on AI ↗ describes uses from compliance checks and triage to document search and text generation.

For most firms, the early wins are intake, document review and drafting from precedent.

AI can sort enquiries by practice area and urgency, then pass each to the right team with a summary.

It can read a data room or disclosure set and produce a first-pass summary with page references.

It can draft routine letters and agreements from your own precedent bank rather than the open internet.

Each output lands with a fee earner as a draft, never as a finished product.

The SRA is clear that solicitors remain accountable to clients for the service, whether or not AI is used.

It compares overseeing AI to supervising a more junior employee.

We build that supervision into AI for law firms from the start, rather than leaving it to good intentions.

Every client-facing or court-facing output needs a named reviewer before it can be sent or filed.

Citations are checked against an authoritative source, with the check recorded on the file.

Anything touching advice, prospects, AML red flags or conflicts escalates to a solicitor straight away.

Your team also needs the skills to review well, which is what our AI governance training covers.