AI Use Policy

Artificial Intelligence Policy

Nolan Law Firm LLC is an electronic and AI-integrated law firm. Legal services are provided using: cloud-based platforms, artificial intelligence tools, and automated systems, including third-party services that may process client information. This policy explains how those tools are used and how client information is protected.

How AI Is Used in Our Practice

AI tools may assist with document drafting, legal research, contract review, case summarization, and administrative tasks. These tools reduce the time and cost associated with work that does not require attorney judgment.

Data Handling and Privacy

Client information processed with AI is subject to the following safeguards:

Strict adherence to privacy contracts that meet or exceed privacy contracts used by most practice management software, email providers, and cloud storage services used by law firms nationwide.

Encryption in transit and at rest. All data is encrypted to the same standard used by major financial institutions.

Attorney review on all output. No document, communication, or legal analysis leaves this office without review and approval by a licensed attorney.

Context: How This Compares

Every law firm in the country stores client information on third-party cloud servers. Documents are hosted on platforms like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Microsoft OneDrive. Case files live in practice management software on someone else’s infrastructure. Emails pass through Google or Microsoft data centers.

The privacy protections on the AI tools this Firm uses are functionally equivalent to, and in some cases stronger than, the cloud-based tools every modern law firm relies on.

Client Consent

The Firm’s fee agreement includes a Technology Disclosure (Section 9) and Client AI Use provision (Section 10). Before any representation begins, the client will review and consent to the Firm’s use of technology. If a prospective client is not comfortable with these practices, the Firm respects that decision, but this is how we practice.

Client AI Use

Clients should be aware that placing case information, including case documents and attorney communications, into any AI system without appropriate safeguards may result in waiving confidentiality in those items and may make those items discoverable in litigation.

The fee agreement does not include time for reviewing or explaining a client’s own AI research or AI-generated production. Such tasks will incur additional hourly fees.

What the Firm Does Not Do

The Firm does not use AI tools that train on client data. The Firm does not delegate legal judgment to AI systems. AI makes the practice faster and more affordable; it does not replace the attorney’s role.

Questions

If you have questions about how technology is used in your matter, ask. You will get a direct answer.

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