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Privilege Logs, Work Product, and AI: Keeping Custody Clean

How private AI can assist privilege review and work-product workflows without sending sensitive materials to public models.

The workflow is delicate by design

Privilege determinations and work-product judgments are human legal conclusions. AI can assist with organization, candidate flagging, and draft log rows. It should not decide privilege without lawyer review.

Where private AI helps

On controlled infrastructure, models can cluster communications, draft candidate privilege log entries for attorney review, and surface anomalies while keeping the corpus inside the firm's custody boundary.

  • Human sign-off on every privilege call
  • Exportable logs for production
  • No training on client data by third parties

What to refuse

Refuse any workflow that requires uploading a privilege set to an unapproved consumer chatbot. A vendor that cannot meet the firm's custody requirements should not receive the corpus.

Define a reviewable privilege workflow

We can map candidate flagging, attorney sign-off, export, and audit requirements.

Map Privilege Review

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