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Regulated work · 2026-09-11

A lawyer keeps client documents off any cloud API

Confidentiality obligations, not a specific incident, are enough reason for this lawyer to do all document review and drafting locally.

Handling confidential client material, this lawyer avoids sending anything to a cloud API regardless of a vendor's privacy claims, and uses a local model for document review, writing, and editing. They're currently running it on an ordinary gaming PC and are underwhelmed with the results, and are weighing a 128GB Mac Studio to get something more usable. The concern is less about a specific leak than the general risk of betting client confidentiality on a third party's data handling.

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