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Filings, personal data and artificial intelligence.
A few pieces, written when we have something to say: what actually leaves an office when a filing ends up in a chat window, where hand work goes wrong, and which words to use when somebody asks what happened to the data.
Lawyers
The file also holds data about people who are not your client
Witnesses, children, experts, the other side: people who signed nothing with the firm, and whose data leaves along with the filing.
Lawyers
The bill for redacting by hand
Twenty minutes a file, an error now and then, and a rule nobody follows at nine in the evening. Why the manual route does not hold, and what it really costs.
Lawyers
Researching precedent without handing over the file
The most common way firms use AI is also the most exposing, and it is unnecessary: the model needs the legal question, not the parties.
Lawyers
Telling the client you use AI: what to write, and where
Article 13 of Italian Law 132/2025 requires informing the client. The form is not prescribed: what the notice has to say, and where it belongs.
Lawyers
Professional secrecy in front of a text box
What a pleading pasted into a chat actually touches: Article 622 of the Italian criminal code, the bar’s code of conduct, and the GDPR.
Lawyers
Handing a court filing to an AI: what leaves the office
What happens when a filing ends up in a chat window, what the GDPR and professional secrecy require, and what to take out of the text before you press enter.
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