Attorney–client privilege
Disclosure to a third party without client consent is the classic way privilege is lost. A public AI service is a third party, whatever its terms page says about training.
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For law firms
One paste into ChatGPT can waive the privilege you spent a career protecting.
Your associates are already using AI. The question is no longer whether, but whether the client file leaves the firm when they do.
The moment it goes wrong
Not a hypothetical. This is the sequence that ends careers and clients.
- 1
A junior associate pastes three pages of a client agreement into a public AI service to get it summarised. It is 9pm and there is a hearing tomorrow.
- 2
The text goes to a server the firm does not control. Nobody knows where it is stored, for how long, or who can read it.
- 3
Six months later the other side files a disclosure request, or a client audit asks about the chain of confidentiality. There is no record showing the file left the firm — because there is no record at all.
The rules you are already bound by
Data protection and cross-border transfer
Sending personal data to a server abroad is a separate transfer with its own legal basis. Türkiye is not on the EU adequacy list, so contractual safeguards are required if you go that way.
Insurance and professional conduct
After an incident, the first thing your insurer and your bar association ask for is the log: who sent what, and when. You cannot produce that log retrospectively.
These are pointers, not legal advice. We are not your lawyers or your regulator — but we build so that your lawyers have something to point at.
What changes
Same work, same tools your team already likes. Different plumbing.
Public AI account, today
- The client file goes to a server you do not control
- No record of who sent what
- The provider decides the retention period
- Nothing to show an auditor
With Kavera
- The file never leaves the firm's own environment
- Every request logged — who, when, what was blocked
- You set retention, and the records belong to you
- A written description of the safeguards, an NDA and a data-processing agreement
What it costs, in your own units
The only honest way to price a safeguard is against what it protects.
Where this profession usually starts
Silver
Service fee, per month
$1,149
Plus infrastructure, at cost
$280 – $700
For a mid-sized firm this is less than one billable hour a month. Compare it not with the price of software but with the cost of the first week after a confidentiality breach.
The published figure is the service. The GPU or hosting is separate and passed through at cost with no margin from us — and is zero if it runs on hardware you already own.
What people in your position ask
Do my lawyers have to change how they work?
No. The interface is the same chat window they are used to. The only thing that changes is where the text goes.
Can it search our own precedents and contracts?
Yes, and it cites the document each answer came from. An answer you cannot verify is useless in legal work.
Can we rely on the output?
No, and nobody should. AI drafts; the lawyer remains responsible. Walk away from any vendor who tells you otherwise.
Talk about your own situation
Tell us what kind of information you handle and what you are not allowed to send outside. We will come back within one business day with an honest answer — including "you do not need this" when that is the answer.