Defensible AI governance for your firm.
For law firm GCs, risk partners, CIOs, and KM leaders who need defensible AI governance.
Features
What CounselGuard does
Each feature is tied to a job your governance team already has.
AI Tool List
A live registry of every AI tool used in your firm — who's using what, and what's approved.
Rules by Office
Bar rules and AI laws mapped to each office, so obligations follow the lawyer wherever they practice.
Policies and Training Records
AI policies, guidance, and training records in one place — defensible proof your lawyers were trained.
Evidence for Questions and Audits
Pre-built reports tying tools, policies, training, and usage into one answer for any audit.
Activity Monitoring
Captures every AI session in real time — firm devices, personal browsers, sanctioned tools or not.
Compliance Dashboards
At-a-glance compliance health by jurisdiction, office, and obligation — built for risk committees.
What we hear
What firms are struggling with when AI lands in the practice.
We hear the same questions over and over from GCs, risk partners, and CIOs. Tools are spreading across the firm faster than policy can keep up, and nobody can answer the basics on demand: who is using what, on which matters, under which rules.
CounselGuard exists because those questions deserve a real answer, not another memo. The cards on the right are the ones we hear most.
“We do not have a current list of AI tools our people are using.”
— General Counsel, AmLaw 200
“We cannot quickly show clients or bars how we govern AI.”
— Risk Partner, mid-size firm
“AI policies exist, but we have no easy way to tell if people follow them.”
— Chief Compliance Officer
“Different offices face different rules, and it is hard to track them all.”
— CIO, multi-jurisdiction firm
What we cover
4
Frameworks tracked
Coverage grows as new rules land.
100+
AI tools cataloged
A living inventory firms can keep accurate.
1 packet
Audit-ready evidence
Pull a single bundle when a client or regulator asks.
+ 90 more in the catalog. Coverage grows with the firms we work with.
Our Values
Why firms pick CounselGuard
The AI governance layer law firms actually need — built around the rules of the jurisdictions where your lawyers practice.
Built for the rules you answer to
Every captured AI session is scored against the obligations that apply where your lawyers practice — ABA 512, FLSC, state bar opinions, EU AI Act, and your own firm policy.
Compliance, scored continuously
Every captured session updates your standing against the frameworks your firm has turned on.
ABA Formal Opinion 512
In progress78%
Compliant
Competence (1.1)
4/4
Confidentiality (1.6)
6/6
Communication (1.4)
3/3
Supervision (5.1 / 5.3)
2/4
Fees (1.5)
1/2
Catches shadow AI
The desktop agent and Chrome extension see every model your people touch — personal ChatGPT, free Claude, embedded copilots — not just what IT approved.
Defensible audit trail
Tamper-evident logs of prompts, responses, and policy decisions. When a client, regulator, or insurer asks, the answer is ready.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to the questions firms ask before signing on. If yours is not here, talk to us and we will tell you straight.
Firms where AI is already in use and someone — a GC, a risk partner, a CIO — is the one who has to answer for it. Most of our users sit in the 50–1,500 lawyer range, in jurisdictions that have started writing rules (US, EU, Canada, UK). If nobody at your firm is being asked AI questions yet, you don't need us yet.
We import them as-is, version them, and map each section to the obligations it covers. You'll see exactly which clauses satisfy which rules and where the gaps are. We don't rewrite your policy. Your reviewers approve every change through the same workflow they already use for any firm policy.
Whichever offices and bars you practice in. Today that includes ABA Opinion 512, the EU AI Act, the FLSC Model Code, and the SRA Standards. Activity captured in an office is attributed to the rules that govern it, so a New York matter and a London matter sit under different obligations automatically.
A week of real work, not a quarter of integration. SSO, the desktop agent, and the Chrome extension go in on day one. From there you map offices, jurisdictions, monitored individuals, and reviewers. Your compliance lead drives it; we sit in the working sessions and clear blockers in real time.
Your tenant is isolated, hosted in the region you choose, and nothing crosses the boundary unless you ask it to. Model calls run with provider training disabled, captures are sanitized before any analysis, and access is scoped per-firm. No model is trained on your data, by us or by anyone we route to.
Twenty minutes on a call. We walk your jurisdictions, offices, and the tools your people are already using, then send a scoped pilot. Pilots run against real activity so the answer to "is this worth it" comes from your own data, not a deck.
Resources
Resources for AI governance teams
Checklist
May 14, 2026
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Ryan Dankoff
AI governance starter checklist for law firms
A one-page playbook: inventory tools, map rules, set policies, track training, plan for audits.
Frameworks
May 6, 2026
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Ryan Dankoff
ABA Opinion 512: what it actually means for your firm
A plain-English read on the ABA's AI guidance and what to put in place this quarter.
Practice
Apr 28, 2026
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James Gu
How to inventory the AI tools your firm is actually using
A repeatable approach: agent + extension, partner sign-offs, and what to do about shadow tools.
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