The problem
Your clients expect AI-era service. Your ethical obligations forbid AI-era shortcuts.
AI is the obvious lever for doing more with the same number of attorneys. For a firm holding privileged client files, the popular tools are off the table.
Privilege on the line
Pasting case materials into a public chatbot discloses them to a third party — a disclosure opposing counsel can argue waived attorney-client privilege.
The duty of confidentiality
Rule 1.6 doesn't have a chatbot exception. Client information entered into a consumer AI tool is client information handed to a vendor — without informed consent.
Malpractice exposure
An unvetted AI tool touching client files is exactly the kind of practice your carrier asks about at renewal — and exactly what a plaintiff's expert looks for after something goes wrong.
Ethical walls don't exist in a chatbot
A shared AI account has no concept of screens or conflicts. One prompt about the wrong matter, and material from both sides of a conflict sits in the same vendor's logs.
The uncomfortable part: your associates and staff may be using these tools already, because the time savings are real. AI is already inside your practice — without controls, without an audit trail, and without a word to your clients.
Security & ethics
Confidentiality isn’t a feature. It’s the architecture.
Most AI products ask you to trust their cloud. Aurus is the duty of confidentiality in practice: client files are never in anyone else’s hands to begin with.
Nothing leaves your office
Client files, questions, and answers are processed entirely on the Aurus system — no document content is ever transmitted out, so there is no cloud side to secure and no third-party disclosure to explain.
No outside services
The AI runs entirely on the system itself — no outside services, no third-party calls.
No vendor in the middle
Cloud AI splits control between you and a vendor. Aurus runs inside your walls — one perimeter, one owner: you.
Ethical walls, enforced
Aurus Console mirrors your existing matter permissions. Screens and conflict-of-interest boundaries are enforced on every query — walls that hold even against a careless prompt.
Audit-ready
Every question, answer, and document accessed is logged in Aurus Console — on your hardware, under your firm's control.
The only signal we ever receive is whether the hardware is healthy — document content never leaves your building.
Client files are encrypted at rest on hardware you physically control.
Your existing security and retention policies apply, unchanged — the files never sit on anyone else’s servers.
Encrypted at rest
On your hardware
When the bar, your malpractice carrier, or a client asks where the AI keeps privileged files — you can point at the room it’s in.
See what private AI can do for your firm.