Areebi enables law firms and legal departments to use AI for contract review, legal research, and case analysis - without risking attorney-client privilege or confidential data exposure. Deploy with real-time DLP, matter-level isolation, and full audit trails.
Law firms and legal departments face unique obligations when adopting AI. Every ungoverned prompt is a potential privilege waiver, ethical violation, or confidentiality breach.
Associates paste client names, case strategies, settlement figures, and privileged communications into consumer AI tools daily. Under ABA Model Rule 1.6 and its state equivalents, any disclosure of confidential client information to a third-party AI provider - even inadvertently - can constitute a breach of the duty of confidentiality. The reputational and malpractice implications are severe.
State bars and the ABA are issuing rapid guidance on AI use in legal practice. ABA Formal Opinion 512 established that lawyers must understand how AI tools handle client data. Multiple state bars now require disclosure of AI use in court filings. Without governance infrastructure, firms cannot demonstrate the competent supervision that ethical rules demand.
M&A due diligence, litigation discovery, and regulatory investigations generate document volumes that demand AI assistance. But feeding thousands of confidential documents into AI tools without governance creates cascading privilege and confidentiality risks. Firms need AI's productivity gains but cannot accept the data exposure that comes with ungoverned adoption.
Individual attorneys adopt AI tools for research, drafting, and analysis without IT or compliance awareness. These shadow AI tools operate outside the firm's information security perimeter, conflict-checking systems, and ethical screening processes - creating blind spots that no amount of policy language in the employee handbook can address.
Areebi delivers the technical controls that law firms need to adopt AI while meeting their ethical obligations to clients, courts, and regulators.
Areebi's DLP engine scans every prompt for client names, case numbers, opposing party identifiers, settlement amounts, privileged communication markers, and matter-specific confidential information. Sensitive data is automatically masked before reaching any LLM. The engine understands legal document patterns - Bates numbers, case captions, privileged log entries, and redaction markers - providing protection that generic DLP tools cannot match.
Explore DLP capabilitiesAreebi deploys on your firm's infrastructure - on-premises or in your private cloud. Client data never leaves your controlled environment. Combined with real-time DLP masking, this architecture eliminates the third-party disclosure risk that threatens privilege. Every AI interaction is logged with an immutable audit trail, providing the documentation needed to demonstrate competent supervision under ABA and state bar ethical requirements.
Review trust architectureThe Areebi browser extension monitors for unsanctioned AI usage across the firm. When an associate opens ChatGPT to draft a motion, a paralegal uses an unapproved AI research tool, or a partner pastes case details into a consumer AI interface, the extension detects the activity, logs it for compliance review, and redirects users to the firm's governed AI platform. This transforms shadow AI from an invisible risk into a managed, auditable process.
Learn about shadow AI preventionAreebi's policy engine creates isolated AI workspaces per practice group, client matter, or ethical wall. Each workspace has independent data controls, model access policies, and audit trails. Chinese wall requirements for conflicted matters are enforced at the AI layer - preventing cross-matter data contamination that could create disqualification motions or malpractice exposure.
See the policy engineAreebi automatically generates the documentation firms need to demonstrate compliance with evolving AI ethics guidance. Immutable audit logs show what data entered which models, what controls were applied, and who supervised the AI interaction. Pre-built compliance templates map to ABA Formal Opinions and state bar AI guidance, giving ethics partners the evidence they need for inquiries, audits, and client assurances.
View compliance capabilitiesSee how Areebi's unified platform also serves financial services, healthcare, and government organizations with the same governance infrastructure.
Real-world scenarios where Areebi enables legal AI innovation while preserving privilege, maintaining confidentiality, and meeting ethical obligations.
An AmLaw 100 firm deploys Areebi to govern AI-assisted contract analysis during M&A due diligence. Associates use AI to review hundreds of target company agreements, identify change-of-control provisions, flag non-standard indemnification clauses, and extract key commercial terms. Areebi's DLP engine masks party names, deal values, and proprietary terms before they reach the LLM. Workspace isolation ensures that due diligence materials from competing bidders never cross-contaminate. The audit trail documents every AI-assisted review for client billing and ethical compliance.
A litigation boutique uses AI to research case law, analyze opposing arguments, and draft motion frameworks. Attorneys routinely include case-specific facts, client identities, and legal strategy details in research prompts. Areebi masks confidential information while preserving the analytical context the AI needs to deliver useful research results. The policy engine restricts which AI models each practice group can access, and audit logs create a defensible record of AI-assisted work product - critical as courts increasingly require AI use disclosures.
A mid-size firm with 15 practice areas uses AI to summarize depositions, extract key testimony, and build searchable knowledge bases from prior matters. These workflows involve highly sensitive witness statements, expert reports, and settlement discussions. Areebi governs every interaction - masking witness identifiers and settlement figures, enforcing matter-level access controls that prevent associates from accessing cases they are not staffed on, and maintaining audit trails that satisfy both internal knowledge management policies and external ethical obligations.
Areebi maps to the regulatory and data protection frameworks that matter to law firms and corporate legal departments operating across jurisdictions.
Explore our trust and security architecture or read our blog for guidance on AI ethics compliance in legal practice.
Answers to common questions from managing partners, general counsel, and legal technology leaders evaluating AI governance for their practice.
Areebi's DLP engine automatically detects and masks client names, case numbers, confidential settlement terms, and privileged communications before they reach any AI model. Combined with on-premises deployment, this ensures privileged information never leaves your controlled environment - preserving privilege under ABA Model Rule 1.6 and state equivalents.
Yes. Areebi provides the technical controls that support compliance with ABA Formal Opinion 512 and state bar guidance on AI use. Immutable audit logs document every AI interaction, policy controls ensure competent supervision of AI outputs, and DLP prevents inadvertent disclosure of confidential information - addressing duties of competence, confidentiality, and supervision.
Areebi's policy engine supports workspace-level isolation, allowing firms to create separate AI environments per practice group, client matter, or ethical wall. Each workspace has independent data controls, model access policies, and audit trails, ensuring Chinese wall compliance and preventing cross-matter data contamination.
Absolutely. Areebi integrates with your firm's SSO/SAML identity provider to enforce role-based AI policies. Partners, associates, paralegals, and support staff can each have tailored permissions - from which AI models they can access to what types of data they can include in prompts and what document categories they can analyze.
See how Areebi protects attorney-client privilege, enforces ethical obligations, and enables your lawyers to use AI with confidence. Schedule a personalized demo with our legal solutions team.