myAffidavit Blog: Local AI, Privacy, and Legal Technology

Practical thinking on local AI, privacy-first software, and the future of legal document preparation for UK courts.

Featured Articles

• The Courts Are Writing the Rules for AI Evidence. Witness Statements Are the Battleground.: The CJC consultation, Ayinde v Haringey, judicial AI guidance and the rise of local AI, and what they mean for anyone preparing evidence.
• Building the Business Case for Legal AI That Never Leaves the Building: Why local-first legal AI is the only architecture that works for affidavits, witness statements, and privileged documents.
• When AI Hallucinated in Court: Ireland's Warning to Self-Represented Litigants: Ireland's Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal after AI-generated submissions cited non-existent cases.
• Why Your Legal AI Should Never Phone Home: The case for offline-first document creation in legal practice.
• When AI Can't Leave the Room: Why Some Work Requires Local-First AI: For affidavit drafting and witness statements, the AI must run locally.
• Why AI Projects Stall in Production and What Legal Professionals Can Learn: 65% of organisations struggle with AI infrastructure. What legal professionals can take from enterprise AI's challenges.
• Why the Legal Industry's AI Hesitation Points to Local AI: Bar association surveys consistently show lawyers want AI's productivity benefits but not its confidentiality risks.
• The Intention Economy, and How AI Turned It Upside Down: Doc Searls envisioned markets built around empowered buyers. AI built the opposite.
• When the Internet Fails: A Real Story from the California Mountains: Why offline-first legal AI is a professional reliability feature, not just a privacy feature.