Prepare a trust-account inspection pack from the ledgers and the bank records

Key facts

Human involvement: YellowClose supervision
How AI is used: Index the ledgers, bank statements, cancelled instruments and written authorities for the period, and flag months in which the ledger balance and the bank balance do not match on the face of those records.
What the lawyer must review: Model Rule 1.15(a) requires complete records of trust-account funds, preserved for the period in the adopted rule (the Model Rule prints that period in brackets as five years after the representation ends). Rule 1.15(d) requires a full accounting on request. You check the pack against the bank record before it is given to a client, a third person or a disciplinary authority. Formal Opinion 512: test the reconciliation on a sample month yourself before relying on the tool's flags.
Written for / version: United States versionUS

Who does what

Who does what
Role	What they do
Assistance	Potential support includes organising research leads and extracting and organising information. Confirm the tool’s capability and permitted scope.
Lawyer	Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output.

Open each relied-on authority independently. Confirm its existence, current status, proposition and any quotation or pinpoint reference.
Trace every relied-on figure to its source, confirm dates and assumptions, and independently recalculate totals or derived amounts.
Review the original source set for relevant material absent from the output, including contrary evidence, qualifications and remaining gaps.
Confirm the output against the client’s instructions and the complete relevant source material, including omissions or contradictions.
Resolve exceptions and record the responsible lawyer’s approval of the exact output and intended use.

Forms and precedents for this task
Form or precedent	Kind	AI use	Summary
Check before a trust-to-operating transfer (United States)	Checklist	AI use Red	A check, before any transfer from a client trust account to the operating account, that the fee is earned or the expense incurred, the client has the direction and the bill, and no disputed amount is included.
Notice that funds were received into trust (United States)	Letter	AI use Yellow	A short notice that funds in which the client or a third person has an interest have been received and placed in a named trust account, as Model Rule 1.15(d) requires prompt notice.