Your lawyers already use AI. You answer for how they use it.
Every law firm needs an AI governance program. NIRAP gives you the standard, the tools, and the verification to get yours written and ready to roll out in as little as one week.
Your own people do the work in nine guided sessions, so you do not need to hire a consultant. An administrator can run the sessions, and the lawyer who owns the policy approves the result.
Built for firms that license AI tools, not companies that build them.Three pieces, packaged into a single program for the whole firm.
Your firm's program can be written and ready to roll out in as little as one week. The toolkit produces the documents, the course trains your people, and a NIRAP reviewer verifies the result.
From an independent standards body. Built on NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and ABA Formal Opinion 512, with Texas and California rules added where your lawyers practice.Responsible AI Toolkit
The app identifies the V-AGE controls that apply to your firm and explains each one in plain language. It walks your people through the nine sessions, and its AI assistant drafts any policy or document you are missing.
AI Governance 101 (Legal Edition)
A video course for every person in the firm who uses AI tools. That includes partners, associates, paralegals, assistants, and contract lawyers. It explains how AI tools fail, why the firm has rules for them, and how to use them safely.
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RAICB™ certification and trust badge
After you upload your evidence, a NIRAP reviewer checks it against the V-AGE standard. A person does the review, not software. If your program meets the standard, your firm earns the Responsible AI Certified Business badge.
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Why every law firm needs an AI governance program
AI is already in your firm, and the rules of professional conduct already apply to how your lawyers use it. ABA Formal Opinion 512 applies the existing duties of competence, confidentiality, communication, fees, candor, and supervision to AI tools. That means your exposure started the day someone in the firm opened one.
One brief is filed. The court orders the firm to explain it.
An associate asks an AI tool to draft a response to a motion. A partner signs and files it after a quick read. One case it cites does not exist, and another is described as holding something the court never decided.
“Courts in this circuit have rejected that argument. See Hargrove v. Delmar Logistics, Inc., 61 F.4th 902 (5th Cir. 2023)1; Reyes v. Tolliver, 548 F. Supp. 3d 217 (N.D. Tex. 2021) (holding the clause unenforceable)2.”
Then come three questions. Your answers decide how it goes.
These are the questions a court, a disciplinary authority, or a client would reasonably ask.
Federal courts are already sanctioning lawyers for AI-drafted filings.
Every answer in the right column is a document the toolkit produces. Your own people can have all of them written in one week.
See the nine sessionsAI has three built-in flaws. Your lawyers and staff can fall for every one.
These flaws come from how the tools work, so no software update will remove them. Each one produces work that looks finished and confident. That is why capable, careful people get caught: the mistake does not look like a mistake until someone checks.
It makes things up
The tool invents facts and citations and states them with confidence. This is often called hallucination.
In your firm: A brief cites a case that does not exist, or quotes language that is not in the opinion it names.
The citation is formatted like every real one around it, so a busy lawyer files it without opening the case.
It agrees with you
The tool tends to support whatever position the person asking already holds.
In your firm: A lawyer asks the tool to confirm a reading of a contract clause or the strength of a claim, and the tool backs the lawyer up.
The lawyer hears agreement and treats it as research. In fact, the tool is mostly repeating the lawyer's own view back.
It repeats old patterns
The tool reproduces the patterns in the data it learned from, including old bias.
In your firm: A summary of a client interview, or a screen of job applicants, leans on assumptions the facts do not support.
The wording sounds neutral to the person who asked for it, so nobody questions it.
The fix is people who know the traps and a rule that someone checks the work. AI Governance 101 (Legal Edition) teaches every lawyer and staff member to spot all three, and session 6 of the toolkit sets your firm's review requirements. If you cannot open the source, it does not ship.
Nine sessions. One week. Then you roll it out.
The toolkit breaks the work into nine sessions. Each session is a guided tool your people complete inside the app, and each one ends with finished documents for your firm, so nobody is left holding homework. At the end of the week your program is written and ready to roll out to your lawyers and staff.
Start here
Describe the firm: its size, its practice areas, where its lawyers are licensed and file, and who must approve the policy. Your answers decide which documents the firm needs.
Build your AI tool inventory
List the AI tools the firm uses, check each vendor's security and contract terms, and record the tools your clients use.
Write your AI policy
Decide what AI may be used for, by which roles, and with what client information, including the personal AI tools people bring to work.
Set your client rules
Decide when the firm asks a client for consent, and record each client's own AI restrictions from its outside counsel guidelines.
Set your billing rules
Decide how the firm bills for time a tool saved, and whether it charges clients for the tool itself.
Set your review requirements
Define how a lawyer checks AI-assisted work before it is signed, filed, or sent to a client as advice.
Set how long you keep records
Decide which AI records you keep and for how long, and name the person who decides what happens when something goes wrong.
Roll out your plan
Plan training, sign-offs, and a recurring audit of AI use, so the program is used and not just filed.
Request verification
Gather your documents into one package and send it to NIRAP. A person reviews it against the V-AGE standard.
Written for how a law firm works
Governance, not brakes.
Most AI policies are written to say no. Ours are written so your lawyers can say yes safely. Adoption and governance should run side by side. You should not have to stop using AI to get it under control, and you should not have to accept unmanaged risk to keep using it.
A standards body for firms that use AI, not firms that build it.
NIRAP, the National Institute for Responsible AI Practice, is a standards and certification body. We are not a consultancy. We focus on professional services firms and individual professionals who license AI tools rather than build them. Most law firms fit that description.
Enterprise AI frameworks assume you have an engineering team. A law firm has partners, associates, paralegals, and staff. So we took the recognized frameworks and right-sized them for a firm like yours.