Practice Essentials: AI
Anita Nwafor, Local Solicitor, Lusk, Co. Dublin
AI Adoption is already happening in firms. These resources help you to ensure that it happens safely, deliberately and in line with professional obligations.
Safe use patterns
Practical guidance on the appropriate use of AI across different areas of legal practice, helping firms identify opportunities, limitations and risks.
Shadow AI audit report
This tool and worksheet helps firms identify uncontrolled or informal use of AI tools across the firm an emerging and largely unmanaged risk area.
AI vendor assessment tool
This tool and worksheet supports firms in making informed decisions when procuring AI tools.
Workflow readiness
A process-level question set that helps a firm assess whether a specific workflow is ready for AI and in what priority order. The existing audit and policy tools tell a firm what AI it's using and whether it has a policy. This tells it what to do next.
Practice Essentials will continue to evolve with additional resources and updates added throughout 2026.
If you have any queries, suggestions or feedback on the toolkit, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please contact the Solicitor Services Department – Solicitorservices@lawsociety.ie.
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