Your firm already carries confidentiality obligations most industries don’t — solicitor-client privilege, the Barreau du Québec’s professional-conduct rules, and Law 25 on top. Core-AI builds private AI systems for Montreal law firms that put document review, precedent search, and drafting assistance to work without a single client file leaving your network.
Why This Is Different for a Law Firm
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Most AI vendors sell the same chatbot to every industry and let you worry about the fine print. That doesn’t work for a law practice. A matter file is not a generic document — it’s covered by professional secrecy obligations that don’t lift just because the reader is a model instead of a person.
Core-AI’s answer is architectural, not contractual: the system runs on your infrastructure, so the question of whether a client’s file is allowed to reach a third party never comes up, because it never leaves the building. What’s left is the question only you and your counsel can answer — whether a given use of AI is appropriate for a given matter — and that’s a decision the architecture supports rather than makes for you.
Solicitor-Client Privilege
Client files stay inside your network. The technical objection to using AI on privileged material goes away; your privilege analysis is still yours to make.
Matter Files & Precedent Search
Search across years of matter files and precedents the way you'd search one — by concept, not just keyword — without exporting them anywhere.
Documents, queries, and the model itself run on infrastructure you control — removing the cross-border question before it starts.
Draft, review, and search across English and French matter files with the same system — no separate translation step.
What We Build for Law Firms
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- Matter-scoped document review — accelerate first-pass review of contracts, discovery, and due-diligence files, with every answer traceable back to the source document and page.
- Precedent and clause search — find the relevant precedent or prior drafting language across your firm’s history in seconds, in either language.
- Role-based matter assistants — an internal AI assistant that respects the same access boundaries your document management system already enforces.
- Bilingual drafting support — draft and revise in English or French, informed by your firm’s own prior work rather than generic templates.
- Client intake and correspondence triage — surface the relevant history on a file the moment a new communication comes in.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Does using AI put solicitor-client privilege at risk?
Privilege is a legal determination for you and your counsel to make, not something a vendor can certify. What we control is the technical side: your matter files, client communications, and any AI system built over them run on infrastructure you own, inside your own network. Nothing is sent to a third-party AI provider unless you explicitly choose to for a specific, named reason. That removes the technical objection to using AI on privileged material — it doesn’t replace your firm’s own privilege analysis, and we won’t pretend otherwise.
How does a private AI system help with Quebec's Law 25?
Law 25 puts real obligations on how your firm handles personal information, including an assessment before that information leaves Quebec. A private system removes most of that question by not sending client data anywhere: your documents, your queries, and the model itself run on hardware you control. To be clear, no system makes a firm compliant on its own — compliance is broader than any piece of software. What it removes is the hardest part of the conversation: explaining why a client’s file should cross a border to a third-party provider at all.
Can different roles at the firm — partners, associates, support staff — have different access to the system?
Yes. Access is scoped by matter and by role, the same way your document management system already restricts who can open which file. An AI assistant trained on your matter files inherits those boundaries rather than flattening them — nobody gets visibility into a file they weren’t already cleared to see.
Can the system draft and review documents in both English and French?
Yes. We work with open-weight models with strong bilingual performance, so drafting, review, and precedent search work across English and French matter files without a separate translation step — useful for a Quebec practice that moves between both languages within the same file.
