The Accidental Disclosure

Last week you were behind on a contract summary, so you pasted the whole thing into a free AI tool to get a first draft. It was fast, and the summary was good.

This morning the client has flagged that a passage of their contract wording turned up somewhere it should not have been. A shared conversation link from that tool, indexed and public.

The partner has called you in. She knows the team has been using AI tools, and she's about to ask you a direct question.

You are
Junior in a small legal team, eighteen months in

What you can do
You can give a full account and recommend a fix. You can't decide the firm's disclosure to the client or change firm policy alone.

Consumer AI is a channel you can't take anything back from — confidential text doesn't go in, however good the draft that comes out.

About eight to ten minutes. No login. Nothing scored.