AI for Law Firms

Your AI provider can waive your clients' privilege.

The Upper Tribunal confirmed it. Every US-parented AI tool — ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude — is subject to the CLOUD Act. A US court can compel them to produce your client data. That is a privilege waiver your firm cannot undo.

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59% of UK fee earners are using unapproved AI on client data — Censuswide, May 2026
Zero data retention
UK-owned hardware
CLOUD Act immune
ICO registered
Full SRA audit trail
The Ruling

Public AI use permanently waives privilege.

Munir v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2026] UKUT 81 (IAC)
"Uploading confidential documents into an open-source AI tool, such as ChatGPT, is to place that information into the public domain, resulting in a breach of client confidentiality and a waiver of legal professional privilege."
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), 2026

This is not guidance. It is a binding determination. Privilege, once waived, cannot be restored.

The Exposure

Your firm is almost certainly exposed.

59%

of UK fee earners use unapproved AI for client work

71%

of paralegals admit to using ChatGPT on client matters

68%

of firm leaders believe they face "zero risk"

Source: Censuswide survey of 200 UK fee earners and 100 legal leaders, commissioned by Access Legal (May 2026).

The Problem

"Approved" AI tools are not structurally safe for privilege.

Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Google Gemini are marketed as secure. They are all US-incorporated entities subject to the CLOUD Act. A contractual promise of UK data residency cannot override a US federal court order.

"Approved" US AI Providers

  • US parent entity — subject to CLOUD Act
  • US court can compel data production
  • Privilege protection is contractual only
  • Data processed on rented cloud infrastructure
  • Sub-processors in the data chain

Hush AI

  • UK company — no US parent or subsidiary
  • Outside CLOUD Act jurisdiction entirely
  • Privilege protection is architectural
  • Data processed on hardware we own
  • Zero sub-processors, zero retention
Applications

AI that saves fee earners hours — without compromising privilege.

Every request processed on UK-owned hardware. Zero retention. Full audit trail for SRA compliance.

Contract review & summarisation

Summarise lengthy contracts, identify key clauses, flag unusual terms. Privileged analysis stays privileged.

~60 seconds per contract

Legal research & drafting

Draft correspondence, research memos, and skeleton arguments from instructions. Ready for partner review.

~45 seconds per draft

Client correspondence

Generate letters, emails, and advice notes from brief context. Professional, accurate, privilege-protected.

~30 seconds per letter

Document comparison

Compare contract versions, identify amendments, track changes between drafts without uploading to cloud services.

~40 seconds per comparison

Case summaries

Condense lengthy case bundles into structured summaries. Chronologies, key issues, party positions.

~90 seconds per bundle

SRA-compliant audit trail

Every request logged with timestamp and metadata. Exportable records for regulatory compliance and client billing transparency.

Always on
Compliance

Built for SRA-regulated practice.

Every feature designed with the SRA Code of Conduct in mind.

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Privilege Protected

No US jurisdiction. No sub-processors. No mechanism for foreign court orders.

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Zero Retention

Prompts processed and immediately discarded. Never stored, never used for training.

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Full Audit Trail

Every request logged. Exportable for SRA, client queries, and billing transparency.

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UK Jurisdiction Only

UK company, UK hardware. Only UK law applies to your client data.

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ICO Registered

Data controller registered. DPA and DPIA available for your compliance team.

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Independently Verifiable

4-week governance evaluation. Your DPO tests our claims. We hide nothing.

Governance Evaluation

4 weeks for your compliance team to verify everything.

Not a free trial. A governance evaluation. Your DPO independently verifies our sovereignty claims.

01

Architecture briefing

We share our full data flow diagram. Your DPO reviews jurisdiction and sub-processors. No NDAs needed — we have nothing to hide.

02

4-week evaluation

Your fee earners use Hush AI on real work. Your compliance team monitors. We provide full audit logs throughout.

03

Compliance review

Test our zero-retention claim: send data, then ask us to produce it. We cannot. Export the full audit trail for your records.

04

Decision

Your compliance team is satisfied — or they are not. No lock-in. No penalty. The evidence speaks.

Protect your clients' privilege. Architecturally.

Not by contract. Not by policy. By the physical absence of any mechanism for foreign data access.

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