FrostKey helps law firms understand AI Exposure, establish practical standards, govern approved capabilities and configurations, educate their people, monitor change, maintain evidence, and improve the program over time.
Shadow AI is not limited to unauthorized tools. It also includes approved tools used without clear guardrails, unreviewed configurations, sensitive information entering AI systems, and employees making their own decisions about what is permitted.
See How FrostKey Manages AI ExposureIdentify which tools, capabilities, configurations, and workflows require governance.
Give attorneys and staff practical guidance on approved uses, safeguards, and escalation.
Maintain evidence that the firm is actively managing AI—not merely reacting when questions arise.
The Law Firm Guide to AI Governance is a complete 130+ page resource covering AI Exposure, Shadow AI, policy, approved capabilities and configurations, confidentiality, education, client questionnaires, audit-ready evidence, and continuous governance.
The website, book, and platform follow the same Seven-Stage AI Governance Framework—from understanding AI Exposure and Shadow AI through reporting, evidence, and continuous improvement.
Identify where AI interacts with people, information, vendors, workflows, and business operations.
02Define the firm’s governance position, responsibilities, acceptable use, restrictions, and escalation paths.
03Evaluate and approve meaningful tools, models, capabilities, configurations, integrations, and safeguards.
04Give attorneys and staff practical guidance, then maintain acknowledgements, attestations, and participation records.
05Track material legal, ethical, vendor, client, and internal developments and revisit decisions when needed.
06Preserve policies, approvals, education, reviews, decisions, and supporting evidence as the program operates.
07Review program performance and continuously improve governance.
Practical guidance on AI Exposure, governance operations, professional responsibility, vendor risk, client expectations, and implementation.
Why embedded software features, vendors, integrations, and silent updates can create material AI exposure.
Read the analysis → Professional ResponsibilityWhy policy language must be supported by approvals, education, records, reviews, and ongoing maintenance.
Read the article → Governance OperationsWhy practical governance should focus on meaningful capabilities and decisions—not every individual interaction.
Read the article →The book defines the methodology, the Framework organizes it, and FrostKey Insights explains how it applies to changing legal and operational conditions. FrostKey turns those ideas into an operating program through guided setup, starter policy language, reminders, governance alerts, structured reviews, configuration guidance, approved AI capabilities and configurations, and audit-ready evidence that grows with your firm.
FrostKey helps keep the program organized so the firm can respond clearly when clients, insurers, firm leaders, or other stakeholders ask.
Practical for law firms. Built for ongoing use. Organized and audit-ready.