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.

ChatGPT

OpenAI · Drafting

Approved
US · ABA 512

Trains on input

No

Security

SOC 2

Sarah Chen

Perplexity

Perplexity AI · Research

Restricted
UK · SRA

Trains on input

Unknown

Security

David Okonkwo

AI Tool Registry

Every tool carries a status that enforces itself: approve, restrict, or prohibit.

Activity

Live

Timestamp

Person

Tool

Framework

Flag

Duration

Source

Jun 9 2:51 PM

James Whitford

D

DocuParse AI

US · ABA 512
Shadow AI

4m 12s

Extension

Jun 9 2:47 PM

Sarah Chen

ChatGPT

US · ABA 512

12m 40s

Extension

Jun 9 2:31 PM

Marcus Patel

Claude

CA · FLSC
High risk

8m 03s

Agent

Jun 9 2:14 PM

Élise Tremblay

M365 Copilot

UK · SRA

5m 21s

Extension

Jun 9 1:58 PM

David Okonkwo

Perplexity

UK · SRA

2m 45s

Agent

Showing 1 to 5 of 1,247 events

Activity Monitoring

Every AI session captured in real time, firm devices and personal browsers alike.

Clients

24

Hartwell Industries

4 aliases · 2 restricted matters

Warn

Meridian Supply Co.

2 aliases · 1 exception

Allow

Matter types

6

M&A Transactions

All tools

Non-waivable

Matter numbers

38

HW-2241

Hartwell Industries · Engagement letter restriction

Warn
Client and Matter Rules

Clients, matter types, and matter numbers each carry rules the browser enforces.

2.4M

est. tokens

Sessions

1,247

Active

312h

ChatGPT

1.2M

Claude

841K

Copilot

412K

Token volume over time

Estimated tokens per day

Usage Analytics

AI adoption across the firm by tool, office, and person. Real usage data, not surveys.

Framework

ABA Opinion 512

6 categories · United States

Needs attention
78%

2 of 6 fully compliant

  • Competence

    4/4

  • Confidentiality

    5/6

  • Communication

    3/3

  • Supervision

    3/4

Compliance Frameworks

Frameworks across the US, Canada, the UK, and Europe, tracked obligation by obligation.

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CounselGuard

Trust Center

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Whitford & Hale

How Whitford & Hale governs the use of AI across client work.

Last updated June 9, 2026

Overview

Frameworks

4

Tools

5

Policies

3

Tool

Status

Purpose

ChatGPT

OpenAI

Approved

Drafting and research

Claude

Anthropic

Approved

Document analysis

A Live Trust Page

Approved tools and policies on a public page clients can visit, with access controls.

What we hear

What firms are struggling with when AI lands in the practice.

A woman sitting at a desk in a bright office, working on a laptop with notebooks, a cup, and a desk lamp beside her.

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

A man wearing glasses and a blazer working at a desk, writing in a notebook beside a computer monitor in a modern office.
What we cover

7

Frameworks tracked

Coverage grows as new rules land.

20+

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.

Flag of United States
ABA Opinion 512United States
Flag of Canada
FLSC Model CodeCanada
Flag of Quebec
Barreau du Québec GuideQuébec
Flag of United Kingdom
SRA Standards & RegulationsUnited Kingdom
Flag of Germany
EU AI ActEuropean Union
Flag of Germany
BRAO & BORAGermany
Flag of France
RINFrance
ChatGPT
Claude
Microsoft Copilot
Gemini
Harvey
CoCounsel
Lexis+ AI
Westlaw AI
Perplexity
Legora

+ 12 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, SRA, the 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.

Compliance Trend

Score over time by jurisdiction

Last 30 days

ABA Opinion 512FLSC Model CodeEuropean Union

Audit log

Append-only

Review approved

AI Use Policy v3 approved 2 of 2

Sarah Chen · Jun 9, 2:51 PM

Tool registry changed

DocuParse AI set to Prohibited

Marcus Patel · Jun 9, 2:38 PM

Tamper detected

Agent binary hash mismatch on WIN-4421

System · Jun 9, 2:12 PM

Frameworks updated

Enabled EU AI Act for Frankfurt office

James Whitford · Jun 9, 1:47 PM

Device enrolled

MacBook Pro 16 enrolled via Chrome extension

Élise Tremblay · Jun 9, 1:30 PM

Enrollment key revoked

Key NYC-04 revoked after offboarding

James Whitford · Jun 9, 1:04 PM

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 FLSC Model Code, the Barreau du Québec guide, the SRA Standards, the EU AI Act, Germany's BRAO, and France's RIN. 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.

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