AI Law Framework

Your firm’s AI brain

The AI policy and knowledge base for Australian law firms. Check whether AI may be used for a legal task, who drafts and what the lawyer must review, and keep the firm’s AI policies, precedents and decisions in one place. Research for your firm, not an approval of any tool or piece of work.

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Family Law57 tasks · Australia

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First 4 of 57 tasks in Family Law
TaskHow AI is usedHuman involvementWhat the lawyer must review
Find missing financial disclosure documentsCompare a lawyer-approved disclosure request with a permitted document inventory and draft a received, missing and follow-up table.YellowClose supervision
  • Check the inventory against the actual files
  • Discuss gaps with the client before sending a request
Check permission before using subpoenaed or sensitive recordsOrganise a restricted record inventory from metadata already permitted for use. Do not upload the underlying records until the lawyer clears access and processing.RedLawyer-led
  • Decide access, copying and permitted purpose
  • Decide any need to protect sensitive information
Turn existing parenting orders into a practical arrangements sheetExtract obligations from the complete current orders into a draft table of dates, handovers, communication and travel arrangements.YellowClose supervision
  • Check every entry
  • Resolve ambiguity or conflict before the sheet goes to the client
Identify financial changes that need a disclosure updateCompare a prior financial schedule with new verified statements and draft a change table.YellowClose supervision
  • Decide the disclosure consequences
  • Check any amended statement or affidavit against current requirements

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The library today: 61 areas of law3,172 tasks1,693 precedents439 software profiles

How the framework works

Building the toolkit is steps 1 to 3, done once for a task and reviewed at least yearly. Daily use is steps 4 and 5, run on every matter that uses the tool it selected.

  1. Define the task

    Say exactly what you are producing, for whom, and what it has to be right about.

    Every option, including doing it by hand, is judged against the same description. A vague task cannot be assessed at all.

    Step 1 of 5 · Building the toolkit

    Building the toolkit

    You bring

    • The instructions
    • The sources you may use
    • The jurisdiction
    • Who is responsible for each part

    Task

    • What you are producing
    • For whom
    • What it has to be right about
    You end up with One task, described closely enough that two people would assess it the same way.

  2. Assess and decide

    Score the tool on three separate questions, and let the answers decide whether it may be used.

    Step 2 asks three things about one tool doing one task, each scored 1 to 5 against fixed wording. They are never averaged. The overall rating is the lowest of the three, so a strong answer cannot hide a weak one, and it cannot be higher than due diligence.

    Doing the work by hand is always one of the options, and it is scored too — adoption 5, efficiency 3, governance 4. Often it wins.

    Step 2 of 5 · Building the toolkit

    Manual work (no AI)

    • Adoption5Can the firm put this into practice and keep it working?
    • Efficiency3Does it save total human work at the required quality?
    • Governance4Can the firm’s governance carry the risk this use creates?

    Overall ratingthe lowest3

    • Use
    • Use with conditions
    • Do not use for this task

  3. Plan the human work

    Decide, stage by stage, who drafts, who checks what, and who approves.

    Being permitted is not the same as being allowed to write the document. That is set separately, by the level — and the four levels are defined by who drafts and who checks.

    Step 3 of 5 · Building the toolkit

    • GreenAI drafts, lawyer checks
    • YellowLawyer and AI draft together
    • RedLawyer writes; AI may check, clarify or collect data
    • Manual (no AI)No AI at any stage
    Under this method, affidavits and witness statements are Red in every forum: no AI writes any part of them. Where the forum permits it, the tool may flag a gap, and the lawyer takes any addition from the witness, in the witness’s own words. Where the forum bars any AI use, the stage is Manual (no AI).

  4. Do the work

    Carry out the task under the plan, in your usual systems.

    The plan is only worth something if the work actually follows it.

    Step 4 of 5 · Daily use

    Daily use

    Checklist

    • The plan
    • The sources
    • The tool if one is permitted

    You end up with

    • The output
    • A record of how it was produced

  5. Check, approve and record

    Make the plan’s checks, above all at the high-risk points, have a named person approve the exact output, and release it as a separate act.

    This is the record that answers, later, what was checked and by whom.

    Step 5 of 5 · Daily use

    • Check high-risk points against the documents
    • Check the rest, including omissions
    • Judge law, authority, jurisdiction and materiality
    • Approve the exact outputNamed person
    • Release (send, file, sign)

    Knowledge

    • Precedent
    • Policy
    • Work record
      • Who checked what
      • How many items and for how long
      • What changed
      • Who approved it and when it went out
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The firm workspace

  • Keep the firm’s AI policies, precedents and know-how in one private place that every lawyer reads from.
  • Adopt a starting-point precedent from the library for any practice area, then edit it for your firm.
  • Connect Claude or ChatGPT, so the AI your lawyers already use follows the firm’s own rules.
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May we use this tool for this piece of work?

That is the question the method answers — not whether an AI product is good in general, but whether your firm may use a particular one for a particular legal task. And once it may: who drafts, who checks what, and who signs it off.

A quick check gives a provisional answer on one screen, then opens the checklist if you want a saved work record. See suggested levels for the three scores. That page is not saved, and it is not a decision record. Start a task for the checklist. File a decision record when the firm wants a saved note and supervisor sign-off.

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Find your task first

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Areas of law and the tasks under them, each saying how AI may be used and what the lawyer must review.

Practice areas

Quick check

One task, one tool, and a court or tribunal if there is one. A provisional answer on a single screen, then the full assessment if you want a work record. General information, not legal advice.

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Start a task

Choose the area of law and the piece of work. You get the tier, who may draft, and the checks the lawyer must make — in three clicks, with no account.

Start your task

Assess a tool for a task

Every assessment is for a particular task, because the same tool can be right for one and barred for the next. Add the product and answer the questions. The three scores are adoption (can the firm keep it working), efficiency (does it save work at the required quality) and governance (can the firm’s controls carry the risk). Your evidence sets how far governance can reach, and the decision follows from all three.

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Read the method

The five steps across both phases, the three questions, the four levels and every rule, on one page you can print or send to someone.

How it works

See it applied

One task carried from start to finish: the scores, why an option is barred today, the plan, the checks and the record.

A worked example

Connect your AI

Add the framework to the AI you already use. For each legal task it asks you before it assumes, researches before it scores, and does only what the plan allows.

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What this is not

Not a rating of AI products

The same tool can be right for one task and barred for the next, because what changes is the work. A decision belongs to one task and one configuration, and lapses when either changes.

It does not certify anything

Not that a tool is safe, not that your work is correct, not that a saving is real. Every judgement is one a person made, and the record says who made it.

Every assessment ends in one of three decisions: Use, Use with conditions, or Do not use for this task — which reads Do not use for this task until confirmed while a mandatory answer is still outstanding. A permitted AI tool is always Use with conditions; only manual work is a plain Use.

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