The National Creditors Bar Association Law Practice Management Blog

Artificial intelligence is a massive productivity driver for every business category , including for law firms.     Of course, as with any new technology , AI does not come without risks.     That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use AI in your law practice .  As an attorney, your obligation is not to eliminate risk, but to take reasonable precautions against it.  The first step in that process is understanding which credible threats exist around the use of AI.     Unfortunately, there is a new one you should be aware of: prompt injection attacks.     Prompt injections are , in ess ence , commands hidden in AI data inputs .  The AI tool will follow embedded commands, as well as direct user inputs, because it does not effectively differentiate between the two.     Now, users can inject prompts on their own – some do so to try to ‘ jailbreak’ AI products – but, what business owners are more concerned about would be pr...

Law firms traditionally have an issue with data seepage, in the sense that most do not have a single repository for all firm documents – so, those files end up congregating in other spaces, like: a random Dropbox account, or a thumbdrive , or on somebody’s desktop.     Now, that’s a problem , in general – you should have all your law firm data in one place, rather than being siloed, because it makes it far easier to find things, collaborate on documents, manage data security and integrate systems .     And, if that wasn’t enough of a reason to organize your law firm documents into a single holding tank (honestly, that should be: Google Drive , if you use Google Workspace & Microsoft Sharepoint , if you use Microsoft 365 ), there is another pressing compulsion, now: your increasing use of artificial intelligence.     There’s a lot of concern right now about frontier AI models breaking containment ( which has already happened , numerous times), bec...