Law Society NSW

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.