Achieving Trustworthy AI Governance Across the Client/Firm Divide

As AI becomes embedded in how legal work is done, governance has moved from a back-office concern to a test of trust between clients and their advisers. In-house teams are asking sharper questions of their law firms: how is our data handled, which tools touch our matters, and who is accountable when something goes wrong? Firms, in turn, are working out how much transparency is realistic and how to evidence good practice without slowing innovation down. Beneath it all sits an uncomfortable reality. Those leading innovation do not always know whether the information going into their systems is secure. This panel brings in-house and law firm leaders together to ask what trustworthy AI governance really looks like, where responsibility should sit, and whether both sides can agree on a standard that works in practice.