Is Your Firm's AI Use Defensible?
Most small law firms are already using AI — without a governance framework. That creates direct exposure under Rules 1.1, 1.6, 3.3, and 5.3. We help you fix that before courts, clients, or bar counsel ask the question. We call that Defensible AITM.
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AI risk comes from ungoverned adoption — not from adoption itself.
Every firm using AI without documented governance has the same problem: no defensible position when something goes wrong. Our methodology — starting with the AI Governance Phase 0 Assessment — fixes that in a structured, measurable way.
Score your current AI governance posture across 100+ controls mapped to ABA Model Rules. Identify exactly where your exposure is — before courts, carriers, or clients find it first. Produces a Defensibility Score and a written remediation roadmap.
Use your Phase 0 Assessment results to build a governance architecture — written policies, supervision protocols, vendor standards, confidentiality safeguards, documentation requirements. Specific to your firm, your tools, and your practice areas.
Implement governance into daily operations. Train attorneys and staff. Establish audit trails. Maintain the framework as regulations evolve. Repeat the AI Governance Phase 0 Assessment on a defined cadence to document governance improvement over time.
The ABA Model Rules don’t pause when you open ChatGPT.
Five rules are directly implicated every time your firm uses AI. Without documented governance, each one is a potential disciplinary exposure.
KeaneAdvisors.AI maintains the most comprehensive public tracker of attorney AI sanctions in the United States — assembled from court records, bar orders, and published disciplinary actions. The list grows weekly.
View the Sanctions Tracker →ABA Formal Opinion 512 makes clear: supervision, verification, and confidentiality obligations apply to every AI tool in your firm. Undocumented AI use is, by definition, unsupervised AI use.
Your firm’s Defensibility Score — in under an hour.
More than 100 governance controls. Three sections — Professional Ethics, Organizational Governance, and Technology Readiness. Every control maps to a specific ABA Model Rule or governance requirement. The result is a scored, documented, timestamped record of your governance posture — and the foundation for everything that follows in Phase 1 and Phase 2.
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More ways to build a defensible practice.
The only AI governance guide written specifically for solo practitioners and firms up to 50 attorneys. Mapped to ABA Formal Opinion 512. Focuses on evaluation, risk, and defensible decision-making — not tool tutorials.
Request a complimentary copy →Accredited in Georgia, Ohio, and South Carolina. All other states pending. Covers ABA Model Rules, Formal Opinion 512, real-world sanctions, and the Assess → Design → Deploy framework. Self-paced, online.
Enroll in the CLE program →Nearly 350 U.S. attorneys sanctioned or alleged to have used improper generative AI in legal filings. Data assembled from public court records. Updated weekly. The most comprehensive tracker of its kind.
Search the sanctions database →For firms ready to move beyond the AI Governance Phase 0 Assessment into structured governance design and controlled deployment. Phase 1 produces a written governance framework. Phase 2 is a supervised pilot implementation with documented checkpoints.
Schedule a consultation →Before a client asks about data residency.
Before a court questions your filing.
Before a carrier denies coverage.
The AI Governance Phase 0 Assessment costs nothing to start. It takes less than an hour. It produces a documented, timestamped record that your firm took governance seriously — when it counted.
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