Prepare a trust-inspection pack from the ledgers and authorities
Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- Assemble a pack index of reconciliations, authorities, trial balances and sample disbursements, marking missing months.
- What the lawyer must review
- Prepare the pack for the inspector or examiner
- Do not let the tool fill a gap with a generated ledger
- Written for / version
- US
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Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | Assemble a pack index of reconciliations, authorities, trial balances and sample disbursements, marking missing months. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
- Verify every relied-on citation, figure and name against the source document.
- The responsible lawyer approves the exact version before use.
Forms and precedents for this task
| Form or precedent | Kind | AI use | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direction to pay money into the law practice trust account | Letter | AI use Yellow | Letter telling a payer to pay a named sum into the general trust account, with the client's confirmation that the money is entrusted for this matter and is not payment of a bill already given. |
| Trust account statement to the person for whom money is held | Letter | AI use Yellow | Statement of trust money received, paid and still held for one person, for one ledger, given at the end of the matter, on request, or after 30 June. |
| Index for a trust investigation or external examination | Checklist | AI use Yellow | Index of trust records to gather when an investigator or external examiner asks for them, and a cover note recording what the principal produced and what was held back. |
Signed-in accounts can read the full text of each one. All precedents.
Sources
- ABA Business Law Today: How to Protect Your Law Firm's Data in the Era of GenAI, December 2024 · 2026-09-23
Confirm the required checking with the responsible lawyer before work starts. The checking approach does not establish permission to use AI.