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AI messaging governance for law firms and in-house teams

Privilege protection, citation verification, and approved positioning across firm-wide AI use.

Mata v. Avianca

the case that put hallucinated citations and sanctions on every managing partner's radar

SDNY, 2023

Model Rule 1.6

duty of confidentiality applies to every prompt entered by every lawyer and staff member

ABA

30+

state bars have issued formal AI guidance since 2023

State bar associations

The governance gap

Hallucinated cites and privilege leaks aren't theoretical.

Mata v. Avianca made hallucinated citations a managing-partner-level risk overnight. Model Rule 1.6 applies to every prompt entered by every lawyer and staffer - including the ones the firm doesn't know about.

Message.inc enforces citation verification, privilege fencing, and per-matter isolation across every AI tool the firm has approved - or hasn't yet.

1

Hallucinated citations

AI invents cases, statutes, and quotes that look perfect. Every filing needs an enforced verification step, not a hopeful one.

2

Privilege and confidentiality leaks

Pasting client matters into consumer AI tools is the cleanest path to a malpractice claim and a bar complaint.

3

Conflicts and matter mixing

Shared AI workspaces let one matter's facts surface in another matter's draft - a structural conflict problem, not a user error.

4

Unauthorized practice and disclosure

Client-facing AI assistants drift into giving legal advice without supervision or required disclosures.

Pre-built policy pack

Firm-wide AI policies that meet bar guidance

Mapped to ABA Formal Opinion 512 and state bar AI guidance. Citation checks, privilege fences, conflict isolation, and client disclosure language ready to deploy.

  • CITE-01
    Mandatory citation verification
    Every AI-generated citation is checked against a verified legal database before the draft can leave the workspace.
  • PRIV-01
    Privilege fence
    Client matter content can only enter AI tools that meet the firm's confidentiality standard and disable training on inputs.
  • CONF-01
    Matter isolation
    AI workspaces are scoped per matter. Cross-matter retrieval requires conflicts clearance.
  • DISC-01
    Client AI disclosure
    Engagement letters disclose AI use categories per the firm's adopted AI policy.

Where Message.inc sits

Where Message.inc sits in legal practice

Memo and brief drafting
Discovery review summaries
Contract drafting and redlining
Client intake and triage
Marketing and thought leadership

Stop the next sanctions order before it's filed

Every reported AI-citation sanctions case started with a tool nobody had governed. Get the citation-verification and privilege fence live across the firm before the next motion goes out.

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