Advisory
CLPS advises law firms, in-house legal teams, and corporates on how legal technology is selected, governed, and rolled out, from first pilot to firm-wide adoption.
Tool selection and sequencing for law firms and in-house teams: mapping practice-group workflows against vendor capabilities, running bounded pilots with defined success criteria, and building the business case for firm-wide adoption on evidence rather than vendor claims.
Drafting and implementing firm-wide AI-use policies that survive contact with actual practice: tool-by-tool risk tiering, approval and escalation workflows, vendor data-handling due diligence, and the confidentiality and privilege safeguards AI-assisted work requires.
Sequencing a rollout from pilot to adoption: partner buy-in, training cascade design, usage monitoring, and the review cadence that keeps a governance framework current as tools and practice change.
Engagements are scoped and fixed-term rather than retainer-led. A typical sequence: a short diagnostic (tool inventory and risk mapping), a defined deliverable (deployment plan or governance policy), and an implementation phase with the client's own team carrying the rollout. Advisory work is independent of any vendor. CLPS takes no referral fees and recommends no products it is compensated to recommend.
Anonymised case studies from completed engagements will be published here. In the interim, the advisory desk's approach is illustrated in its published insights, including the practical AI governance checklist for in-house legal teams.
To discuss a deployment, governance, or change-management engagement, contact the institute with a short description of the organisation and the problem.
