Legal AI Governance
AI is transforming legal research, contract analysis, discovery, drafting and client services. CognitiveView helps legal organizations discover AI, assess risk, govern its use, evaluate performance, build evidence and make defensible AI readiness decisions.
The Legal AI Shift
Legal AI is moving from experimentation into everyday professional workflows. Research, drafting, contract review, discovery and client services are increasingly supported by AI.
Without a governance framework
AI adoption moves forward. Visibility and accountability fall behind.
A connected path to assurance
Bring each AI system, risk and decision into one governed workflow.
But adoption creates a new governance question:
Can you prove the AI is ready to use?
Legal AI Use Cases
Explore common legal AI use cases and see the key risks, governance considerations and how CognitiveView helps you move from risk to assurance.
The AI Assurance Workflow
CognitiveView connects the activities that are often fragmented across legal, compliance, risk, security, privacy, IT and business teams.
Identify legal AI tools, providers and the teams accountable for their use.
Set the intended purpose, permitted users and boundaries for client data.
Assess accuracy, confidentiality and the impact of AI on legal decisions.
Establish human review, access rules and safeguards for privileged information.
Test source accuracy, output quality and safeguards against real legal tasks.
Connect assessments, test results and approvals in a traceable evidence record.
Review residual risks and evidence to determine whether the use is ready.
Approve the defined use with clear conditions, limits and an accountable sign-off.
Track changes, incidents and performance to keep the authorization current.
From evidence to action
A decision backed by controls, evaluation and evidence.
The defined use meets the agreed readiness criteria.
Use can proceed within documented limits and safeguards.
Material risks or evidence gaps need to be addressed.
Legal AI Risk
Understand where legal AI can introduce exposure. Connect each risk to practical safeguards, clear ownership and evidence your team can review.
Built for Legal Teams
Whether you advise clients or guide an enterprise, bring clarity to how AI is assessed, approved and monitored.
Research / Legal AI
Legal research, case-law analysis, precedent discovery, knowledge retrieval and research copilots.
From risk to assurance
Unsupported citations and incorrect analysis can undermine legal advice and decisions.
Governance focus
Verify sources and review outputs
Client information and privileged material need protection throughout the AI workflow.
Governance focus
Set data boundaries and access rules
Personal information in documents and prompts needs appropriate handling and retention.
Governance focus
Minimize data and control retention
Unauthorized access and manipulated inputs can expose sensitive legal information.
Governance focus
Test access controls and safeguards
Consequential legal work needs an accountable reviewer with authority to intervene.
Governance focus
Define review and escalation paths
Changes to models or workflows can affect the consistency of legal AI performance.
Governance focus
Evaluate performance over time
Teams need to understand how an output was produced and which sources support it.
Governance focus
Maintain traceable sources and rationale
Uneven outputs can affect how people, matters and legal positions are evaluated.
Governance focus
Test across representative scenarios
Third-party tools introduce dependencies around data use, model changes and assurance.
Governance focus
Review providers and ongoing changes
AI use needs to align with applicable professional duties and regulatory obligations.
Governance focus
Map obligations to controls and evidence
Turn risk awareness into a readiness decision.
Assess your legal AI use case and connect risks, controls and evidence in one governance workflow.
For law firms
Bring consistent governance to research, drafting and client work, with safeguards that protect the trust your practice is built on.
For corporate legal
Connect legal with risk, privacy, security, compliance and procurement to make informed AI decisions across the business.