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Career+: AI Confidentiality Basics for Legal Work
Legal work has special confidentiality duties. Learn how to think about client data, privilege, and tool choice before using AI.
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- 1Legal AI Starts With What Cannot Be Shared
- 2confidentiality
- 3privilege
- 4client data
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Section 1
Legal AI Starts With What Cannot Be Shared
AI can help legal teams summarize, draft, compare, and organize. But legal work often contains confidential client information, privileged communications, strategy, and regulated data. The first question is not 'Which model is best?' It is 'What data is allowed here?'
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| Data type | Risk | Safer move |
|---|---|---|
| Public statute or case text | Low confidentiality risk | Use approved research workflow |
| Client contract | Confidential business terms | Use approved enterprise tool or redact |
| Legal strategy memo | Privilege risk | Ask supervising attorney or policy |
| Personal data | Privacy obligations | Minimize, redact, or avoid external tools |
- 1Identify whether the material is public, internal, confidential, privileged, or regulated.
- 2Use only approved tools for confidential material.
- 3Redact names, account numbers, and facts that are not needed for the task.
- 4Do not ask AI to make final legal judgments without attorney review.
- 5Save enough prompt/output context for review when policy requires it.
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The safe pattern is simple: classify data first, choose tools second, draft third, review before relying.
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