Law firms
Your associates are already drafting with AI. The firm needs rules for it.
Lawyers in Ghana are picking up AI faster than their firms are writing rules for it. The partners answer for confidentiality and supervision, and the associates are already drafting with public tools. We help firms use AI and automation safely, and give fee earners their time back for legal work.
Chambers and law firms of every size
Where the week goes
- Associates using public AI tools on client documents, with no agreed rules on what may be entered.
- Client intake, conflict checks and identity documents handled by email, paper and memory.
- Matter status that nobody can see without asking the lawyer handling it.
- New documents assembled by copying old ones and editing by hand.
- Time recorded late or not at all, so bills go out late and value leaks.
- Court dates and filing deadlines tracked in personal diaries.
Law firms
The rules we design around
Confidentiality and supervision
The Legal Profession (Professional Conduct and Etiquette) Rules, 2020 (L.I. 2423) set out lawyers' duties of confidentiality, competence and supervision. AI use has to fit those duties: what may be entered into which tool, who checks the output, and who answers for it.
L.I. 2423 on GhaLIIClient personal data
The Data Protection Act, 2012 (Act 843) governs how client personal data is collected, stored and shared, including with the software providers behind AI and automation tools.
Act 843Client due diligence
Identity and source-of-funds checks on new matters, under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044) where it applies to the firm's work, suit a structured intake with a clear record of what was checked.
Act 1044 on GhaLIIPartner oversight
Every design keeps a lawyer in control. Automations draft, flag and remind; lawyers review and decide.
Where to start
How we'd go about it in a law firm
You can take any of these on its own or do them in order. How buying works
Step 1AI Training
A partners' session and a written AI use policy, then hands-on training for associates and support staff using the firm's own documents.
Step 2Business Process Optimization
The route from instruction to invoice mapped out, with someone clearly responsible for intake, conflicts, time recording and billing.
Step 3AI Workflow Automation
A structured intake with conflict and identity checks, precedent-based document assembly, and deadline reminders.
Illustrative scenario: Law firm
Partners who know how their associates are using AI.
Associates at a mid-sized law firm have begun using public AI tools to draft correspondence and summarise documents. The partners don't know which tools are in use or whether client information is being entered into them.
We would begin with a partners' session on what the tools can and can't be trusted to do, and agree rules on confidentiality and checking. Associates and support staff would then be trained separately, using the firm's own document types, on drafting, summarising and review with those rules built in. Repetitive tasks raised during the sessions would be listed for the partners to consider afterwards.
Illustrative scenario: Law firm
No new matter opens until conflicts and identity are checked.
At a corporate law firm, new instructions arrive by email and phone. Identity documents are photocopied, conflict checks rely on a partner's memory and an old spreadsheet, and work sometimes starts before either is complete.
A process review would map intake from first contact to engagement letter and agree who owns each check. The redesign would use one intake form, a searchable record of past parties for conflict checks and a simple rule that no matter opens until both checks are recorded.
Request an Operating Review
Start with one problem
Tell us which part of the organisation you’d like us to look at and what’s going wrong there. We’ll reply to agree the scope and a fixed fee before anything starts.
- Within two working daysAn email back from someone who’s read your message properly.
- A 30-minute callTo understand the problem and whether we’re the right people for it.
- Within a week of the callA written scope and a fixed fee. You’re under no obligation to go ahead.
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Write to info@asledatalabs.com with your name, organisation and role, and tell us: which area should we look at, and what’s going wrong there?
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