Legal advice doesn’t end when it leaves your desk, but your visibility often does. As clients increasingly turn to public AI tools to summarise and interpret complex advice, lawyers face a growing, largely uncontrollable risk: the potential loss of confidentiality and privilege. This article explores how that risk is emerging in practice, why clients are reaching for AI, and what legal professionals can do now to reduce exposure, starting with making advice clearer, more usable, and easier to trust.
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Tyrilly Csillag
Tyrilly is a thought leader and legal tech advocate, and was recently included in CIO Magazine’s 10 Most Influential Women Leaders in Legal Services 2024. As an Australian admitted solicitor (New South Wales and High Court of Australia) and former Managing Counsel, she brings 10+ years of legal practice and a perpetual curiosity for using technology to do things better, to complement the Thomson Reuters’ team empowering legal tech transformations around the world. Tyrilly originally joined Thomson Reuters as a Senior Legal Editor for Practical Law in 2017, with a focus on data protection, cybersecurity and technology law. She was formerly the Director of Legal Transformation for A/NZ, and is now the Product Strategy Director for Practical Law across APAC, the Middle East and Africa, and part of the Legal Segment Leadership Team for Thomson Reuters AEM.
Posts by Tyrilly Csillag
Is your client’s legal advice training AI? The privilege risk no lawyer can ignore
The rise of public AI tools has created a legal minefield that no lawyer – regardless of practice area or seniority – can afford to overlook. When a client uploads…
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New Zealand’s 2020 Privacy Act Lifts Compliance Standard in Region
Whether you are a business operating exclusively in New Zealand, or an Australian business with a presence in New Zealand, the new Privacy Act 2020 will have an impact.
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