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By Lawyers Holdings Pty Ltd (LEAP group) · By Lawyers publications, matter plans and precedents as used in Australia (also UK, Canada, NZ). Privacy treats By Lawyers Holdings Pty Ltd, Sydney, as controller where there is no local entity. Confirm LEAP/ATI group contract.
Australian (and UK/Canada/NZ) practical legal publications, matter plans and precedents, integrated with LEAP; not marketed on the pages reviewed as a generative legal assistant.
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| Deployment | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Hosting regions | Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, European Union / EEA |
| Australian region | Yes |
| Training on customer content | Unknown |
| Retention summary | Privacy: processor processing follows the client contract. No numbered live schedule. Deidentified usage data may be used for internal training and service improvement. |
| Integrations | LEAP |
| Pricing summary | Often bundled via LEAP (leap.com.au exclusive integrations). Standalone public price not extracted. |
| Legal content coverage | Commentaries, matter plans and precedents in common practice areas for Australia, UK, Canada and New Zealand. Written by practitioners. Not a generative research engine on pages reviewed. |
| Australian presence | Yes — By Lawyers Holdings Pty Ltd, Level 38, International Towers Tower 2/200 Barangaroo Ave, Sydney NSW 2000. Affiliates listed at leaplegalsoftware.com/subsidiaries-and-affiliates. Privacy contact privacy@ati-global.com. |
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By Lawyers Holdings Pty Ltd, Sydney. Privacy: global parents’ subsidiaries/affiliates at leaplegalsoftware.com/subsidiaries-and-affiliates. Footer/nav: By Lawyers in LEAP. About: publications, matter plans and precedents; 35,000 users claimed.
Ask: Is our licence standalone or included in LEAP, and which country libraries?
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Privacy: Service hosted and operated in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, through By Lawyers and service providers. Personal information may be accessed in those places and by affiliates in US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Poland, Australia and NZ.
Ask: Where is our Australian library hosted, and do LEAP integrations copy matter files there?
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About: commentaries, matter plans and precedents; forms library; processes through to invoice and file close. No generative assistant is described on the about or privacy pages reviewed.
Ask: Does our SKU include any generative drafting, or only precedents?
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About: available in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Canadian launch 2023 (ON/BC/AB); NZ 2024; CA/NZ sites 2025.
Ask: Which Australian jurisdictions and current consolidations are in our library?
Record the practical work needed to introduce and maintain the software.
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No public price list extracted. LEAP exclusive-integrations page is linked. Organisation contracts may further restrict processing.
Ask: Confirm AUD price, seats and whether LEAP Matter AI is separate.
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Privacy lists integration partners that may transfer matter information and files into the Services. Site links By Lawyers in LEAP.
Ask: Does LEAP push full matter files into By Lawyers, or only selected precedents?
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Privacy Officer via privacy@ati-global.com; AU/NZ phone listed. No published severity SLA.
Ask: What are support hours for a wrong precedent?
Compare complete work at the required quality, including checking and correction.
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About: authors are lawyers in daily practice, not academics. No independent accuracy audit found.
Ask: How is Australian content dated and who signs off updates?
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Fit is matter plans and precedents. Lawyers still apply professional judgment. Generative AI restrictions article exists on the site; the product itself is not described as a chatbot.
Ask: Will we use By Lawyers only as a precedent library, not as an AI drafter?
Compare the actual configuration with firm, client and jurisdiction requirements, supported by evidence.
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Privacy: where accessed via a client organisation, that entity is controller and By Lawyers is processor. Matter files via integrations may include sensitive ID documents.
Ask: Do we need client consent if LEAP syncs matter files into By Lawyers?
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No LLM provider is named on the privacy, terms or about pages reviewed. Product is publications/precedents.
Ask: If any generative feature is enabled via LEAP, name the model provider.
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Privacy: affiliates in US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Poland, Australia and NZ; unnamed third parties for billing, marketing, hosting, backup, security, improvement and analytics. No dated named list.
Ask: Provide the current named hosting and analytics list with locations.
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Privacy: deidentified data about how you use the Services may be used for internal training and troubleshooting and to improve the Services. That is usage telemetry, not a statement about training foundation models on matter files. Matter files via integrations are used to facilitate the Services.
Ask: Confirm matter-file contents are not used to train any model.
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Where permitted, By Lawyers may aggregate non-personally identifiable data to analyse or improve the Services.
Ask: Can document text appear in aggregated analytics?
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As processor, processing follows client instructions/contract. Controller retention not numbered.
Ask: State default retention for saved matter plans and uploaded files.
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Privacy describes access, deletion and correction choices. No 30-day certified-deletion SLA extracted.
Ask: On exit from LEAP, are By Lawyers copies of our files deleted and certified?
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Support information is used to respond to requests. Affiliates in several countries may access personal information. Need-to-know staff protocol not numbered.
Ask: When may By Lawyers or LEAP staff open our matter files?
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Administrators submit role/billing-rate information. Session and CSRF cookies described. SSO/MFA not described on pages reviewed.
Ask: Is SSO available when launched from LEAP?
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Privacy lists hosting and security providers as categories. TLS/at-rest algorithms are not stated.
Ask: Confirm TLS and at-rest encryption for Australian hosting.
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No SOC 2 or ISO 27001 claim was found on the privacy, terms or about pages reviewed. Parent LEAP group may hold separate certifications not inspected here.
Ask: Does By Lawyers or LEAP hold ISO 27001/SOC 2 covering this product?
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Privacy: organisation contract may restrict processing further. Terms page exists. No public DPA URL. LEAP group affiliation via leaplegalsoftware.com subsidiaries list.
Ask: Is By Lawyers on our LEAP agreement, and will you sign a DPA?
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Hosting in AU, CA, IE, NZ, UK. Affiliates in US, CA, UK, IE, Poland, AU, NZ. Use of the Services is acknowledgement of those transfers.
Ask: Map every country that can see our Australian matter files.
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Privacy does not state a customer-notification period for a Notifiable Data Breach.
Ask: Commit to notify us within 72 hours of a confirmed incident.
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Submitting personal information or using the Services is acknowledgement of the Policy. Organisation contracts may override.
Ask: Will material hosting or affiliate changes be notified in writing?
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No public export/deletion timetable extracted from terms/privacy in this pass.
Ask: What export exists, and when are copies purged after we leave LEAP?
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Integration partners may transfer matter information and files into the Services. LEAP is the named exclusive integration.
Ask: What data leaves LEAP into By Lawyers, and can we disable the sync?
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Product is a publication library. Open-web search was not described.
Ask: Confirm there is no open-web browsing in the product.
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No outbound agent actions were described on about/privacy. File close and invoicing are process steps in the matter plan, not autonomous sending.
Ask: Confirm By Lawyers cannot send email or file documents unattended.
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Content is practitioner-authored guidance. Lawyers remain responsible for adapting precedents to the matter.
Ask: Will we require a named lawyer to accept each assembled document before sending?
Official pages reviewed for this profile, last reviewed 2026-09-21.
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