About Sell Law Firm Data to AI
A small team that reads practice management software terms and the records rules that apply to legal practices, for firms weighing a data licence.
The reason for this site
Legal AI tools are trained on legal work product, and law firms hold the best of it. A firm should decide on that with the contracts and the conduct rules in front of it.
Meant for
Managing partners, COLPs, risk partners and practice directors at law firms in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the US.
What you will find here
A quote form for one question, "sell law firm data to ai", that runs right on the page with no sign-up, 10 guides on related questions, a table of figures you are free to cite (see the data and how it was made), and the list of sources behind every number.
- Law firm software data ownership: what the vendors' terms say: Whether practice and case management vendors' terms say the law firm owns its data, what they reserve for themselves, and how long the firm has to export.
- Law firm record retention: the periods in the primary rules: Which records a law firm or legal practice must keep, and for how long, from the rules themselves rather than from guidance summaries.
- Can I sell my law firm data? The contract questions after counsel's: Can I sell my law firm data? Confidentiality is counsel's question; this is what the practice software terms on the board say about ownership, reuse and exit.
- Sell my law firm? Read this before the files go anywhere: Sell my law firm: what the SRA says about client files at an acquisition, what practice software lets you take, and who says it takes legal records for AI.
- Can a law firm sell closed matter files to AI? Only what clients release: Can a law firm sell closed matter files to AI? The duty of confidentiality outlives the retainer and privilege is the client's, so here is what a firm may offer.
- Can my law firm get paid to train AI? Via its lawyers and its own drafting: Can my law firm get paid to train AI? Who pays lawyers by the hour, what a firm can license instead, and what the SRA says about client information.
- Can a law firm license its precedents and templates to AI? Yes, once clean: Can a law firm license its precedents and templates to AI? Who takes a firm's own drafting, the size and price each buyer publishes, and what to strip out first.
- Can our case management software train AI on our client files?: Can our case management software train AI on our client files? What the processor rule allows, what Clio and LEAP publish, and which contracts keep pooled use.
- Switching case management system? What the firm can take with it: Switching case management system, what can the firm take with it? Who owns the data, the exit windows in law firm software contracts, and what to ask before notice.
- An AI law firm or legal tech company wants to buy my practice: An AI law firm or legal tech company wants to buy my practice? Why a non-lawyer buyer needs an SRA-licensed body, who has bought UK firms, and the data question.
Limits
- We do not accept client or matter information through this site.
- We do not take an enquiry from a law firm until counsel has answered whether, and after what step, one may license its records.
- We do not pass a firm's answers or email address to buyers or to any third party.
The person responsible
Joseph Ellul-Turner, Director.
How to reach us
Use Contact or write to enquiries@selllawfirmdatatoai.com. The legal side is on Terms and Privacy.
This site is run by a team that arranges data licences. Once law firm enquiries open, our fee is 12.5% of the deal when we act as a firm's exclusive agent, or about 10% when its data joins a bundle or pool, agreed in writing first; any fee a buyer pays is credited to the firm. It is not a law firm and gives no legal advice.