Visibility Check on AI Use for Law Firms

Some AI use inside law firms is approved, visible, and supervised. Some is not. That second category now has a name: shadow AI.

It does not always mean someone is acting recklessly. More often, it means attorneys or staff are experimenting with tools that are easy to access, embedded inside software they already use, or personally selected because those tools make the work faster.

The AI Use Visibility Check helps to surface informal or unmanaged AI use before it becomes a confidentiality, supervision, or policy problem.

The problem is not curiosity. The problem is leadership invisibility.

Before a firm writes a policy, launches another pilot, or approves another platform, managing partners need a clearer picture of what is already happening. This twelve-question check gives firm leadership a practical place to start.