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

• 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.