AI is drafting, redlining, and reviewing legal documents. An audit trail records who changed what, when, and why, so the work stays defensible. Here is what a real one looks like, explained in plain terms.
Your firm already pays for an AI assistant. A plain-English guide to connecting ChatGPT or Claude to your legal work, what MCP actually is, and how every action the AI takes lands on the record.
AI can now produce a competent first-pass markup in minutes. These ten practices keep the speed while keeping lawyers in control: playbooks, attribution, clause-level review, and a record of every change.
Legal AI sends client documents through someone's model. Whose account, whose terms, and whose storage policy decide whether that is defensible. A plain-English guide to bring-your-own-key and zero data retention.