AI accountability for law firms
Your fee-earners use AI to draft, summarise and research — some in a sanctioned legal tool like Harvey or Lexis+, most in Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT or whatever is to hand. Evaident keeps one tamper-evident record across all of it, blocks the matter codes, client names and terms you define from reaching public models, and maps it to the SRA Code — so you can protect client confidence, evidence your COLP's oversight, and answer a client's security questionnaire with proof.
Where your AI risk really sits
Confidentiality and privilege at risk
A matter summary or draft pasted into a consumer AI tool can put confidential — even privileged — material outside your control, with no record it happened.
Your legal AI tool only governs itself
A drafting or research assistant like Harvey or Lexis+ secures its own platform. It can't see the Copilot, ChatGPT or personal-device use running alongside it — firm-wide oversight is your job, not the vendor's.
A policy the SRA can't see you enforce
The SRA expects documented oversight, monitoring and audit of AI across the firm — not a policy PDF. When a client or your PI insurer asks, intent is not evidence.
Proof, not promises
One record across every AI, not one tool
Approved legal-AI platforms, Microsoft 365 Copilot, the big chat vendors, in-house agents and unapproved consumer apps — normalised into one searchable, per-matter, per-fee-earner record.
Flag privileged and client material
Activity is flagged for client data, potentially privileged material and PII, so risk and supervising partners review what matters.
Block matter codes and client names
Route AI through the gateway and add your own blocked terms — matter codes, client and counterparty names — to stop them leaving alongside UK PII and secrets.
Produce a defensible evidence pack
Stamped exports with a chain-integrity certificate for a client audit, an SRA query or a professional-indemnity review.
The frameworks you answer to
Evaident shows how your captured evidence lines up with the obligations your firm faces. It supports your compliance function — it doesn’t provide legal advice.
Documented, monitored oversight of AI across the firm — supporting your COLP's responsibility when new technology is introduced, and the duties of competence and confidentiality.
A record showing client and confidential material was governed — and, at the gateway, the matter codes, client names and terms you define blocked from reaching public models.
A ready answer to client AI and security questionnaires: how you see, control and prove AI use across the firm.
Common questions
We already use a legal AI tool like Harvey or Lexis+ — why do we need Evaident?
Those tools do the legal work; Evaident governs it. A drafting or research assistant secures its own platform, but it can't see Microsoft 365 Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, the growing list of legal point-tools (contract review, eDiscovery, intake, transcription) or the personal-device use happening alongside it. The SRA expects oversight of AI across the whole firm — Evaident is the neutral layer that records all of it in one place, including the tools you never sanctioned.
Does Evaident capture what our legal AI tool does?
Where a tool offers an audit feed or you route it through the Evaident gateway, it records rich per-use evidence. Where it doesn't, the tool still appears in shadow-AI discovery from your network logs, so nothing is invisible — you always know it's in use even if the deep detail lives in the vendor's own logs.
Isn't an AI policy enough for the SRA?
A policy is a statement of intent, not a control. The SRA's guidance frames good practice as senior oversight, risk assessment, training and ongoing monitoring — things you have to be able to show. Evaident turns the policy into an evidenced, tamper-evident record you can hand to a client, an insurer or the regulator.
Will Evaident read our clients' confidential or privileged material?
By default Evaident records metadata — which tool, which matter, which fee-earner, what risk flags — not the verbatim text of prompts and responses. Full-content capture is a deliberate, approval-gated add-on, precisely because retaining the content of a live matter can itself raise privilege questions.
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