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Confidentiality comes first
Client information never goes into public or consumer AI tools. We use only tools the firm has approved, on terms that stop the provider from training its models on our data and let us control how long it is kept.
Responsible technology
AI at BRB Legal
How we use artificial intelligence in our work, and the rules that keep your matters confidential and our advice our own.
Our position
Technology assists. Lawyers decide.
AI tools can make legal work faster and more thorough. They can also be wrong, with great confidence. We use them where they genuinely help, within clear rules set by Indian law and our professional duties, and a BRB Legal advocate is responsible for every piece of work that leaves the firm.
Last updated 12 October 2026
Principles
Six rules we work by.
They apply to every partner, of counsel, consultant, associate and member of staff, on every matter.
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A lawyer answers for the work
AI output is a draft, never advice. Every opinion, contract and filing is reviewed and approved by a BRB Legal advocate, who remains professionally responsible for it.
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Verified, not assumed
Every judgment, section, quotation and fact an AI tool suggests is checked against the original source before we rely on it. A citation no one has read does not leave the firm.
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Approved tools, trained people
The firm keeps a list of approved tools and the tasks each may be used for. Everyone who uses them is trained on what they do well, where they fail, and how to protect client data.
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Open with clients
We tell clients how we use AI, follow their instructions about it, and answer their questions plainly. Clients can ask us not to use it on their matters.
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Kept under review
We review our tools and these rules as the technology, Indian law, and the guidance of the courts and the Bar Council of India develop.
In practice
Where AI helps, and where it stops.
We use AI for the parts of legal work that are about volume and consistency. Judgment stays with people.
Where it can help
- Summarising long documents, pleadings and correspondence for a lawyer to read
- Preparing first drafts of routine documents from the firm’s own precedents
- Checking drafts for consistency, defined terms and cross-references
- A first pass through large sets of documents, with lawyers checking the results
- Searching the firm’s own know-how and earlier research
- Draft translations, checked by a fluent speaker before anyone relies on them
What it never does here
- Give legal advice or decide strategy
- Sign, file or send anything without a lawyer’s approval
- Supply an authority that a lawyer has not read in the original
- Speak for us to clients, courts or the other side
- Replace the judgment of the lawyer responsible for your matter
Protecting your information
Indian law applies to our use of AI just as it applies to the rest of our work. As advocates we are bound by the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules, including the duty to keep client confidences. Section 132 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 protects communications between a client and an advocate. Neither changes because a tool is involved.
- Provider checks. Before approving a tool, we look at where data is stored and processed, whether the provider may use it to train models, how long it is retained, how it is secured, and which sub-processors are involved.
- Personal data. Where AI tools process personal data, we act as a Data Fiduciary under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025. We engage processors only under a valid contract, as section 8(2) requires, and keep reasonable security safeguards in place. Our Privacy Policy explains more.
- Data leaving India. If a tool processes data outside India, we check that the transfer is permitted under section 16 of the DPDP Act and under any other rule that applies to your data.
- Need to know. Access is limited to the people working on your matter, and we remove names and other identifying details where a task does not need them.
Indian courts have also made clear that AI output cannot stand in for proper legal research. In Christian Louboutin SAS v. The Shoe Boutique (2023), the Delhi High Court observed that a response from ChatGPT cannot be the basis for deciding legal or factual issues in a court of law. We take the same view of our own work.
Your choices
- Your instructions. If you would prefer that we do not use AI tools on your matter, or use them only for some tasks, tell the partner responsible. We will follow your instructions and tell you if they affect timing or cost.
- Tools you ask us to use. If you want us to use a tool or platform you provide, we will review its terms and security first, and may decline if we cannot use it consistently with our professional duties.
- Fees. We do not charge for AI tools as a separate item unless you have agreed to it in advance, in writing.
On this website
- Articles. Our articles are reviewed by our lawyers before publication. Where AI tools assist with research or drafting, a lawyer checks every statement of law and every citation against the original source.
- Translations. The language button uses Google Translate, which is machine translation. Translations may be inaccurate, and the English text prevails, as our Terms of Use explain.
- Images. Our photographs are public-domain works, listed on the Image sources page. The cover artwork for our articles is drawn from simple shapes and type; none of it comes from an AI image generator.
- No chatbot. This website has no AI chatbot, and we do not use what you send us through it to train AI models.
Questions
Does BRB Legal use AI to give legal advice?
No. We use AI tools to help with tasks such as summarising, first drafts and document review. Advice comes from our advocates, who review and approve all work before it reaches a client, a court or anyone else.
Will my confidential information be shared with an AI provider?
Not with any public or consumer tool. We use only tools the firm has approved after checking where data is processed, whether the provider may use it for training (it may not), how long it is kept and how it is secured. Our duty of confidentiality under the Bar Council of India Rules, and the protection of professional communications under section 132 of the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, apply whatever tools we use.
Can I ask you not to use AI on my matter?
Yes. Tell the partner responsible for your matter, and we will follow your instructions. Some everyday software, such as email, word processing and research databases, now includes AI features we cannot fully switch off; if that matters to you, we will explain what we can and cannot control.
Do you charge for using AI?
We do not charge for AI tools as a separate item unless you have agreed to it in advance, in writing.
Which law applies?
Indian law. Our use of AI is governed by the Advocates Act, 1961 and the Bar Council of India Rules, the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023, the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the rules under it, together with the terms of our engagement with you.
For anything else about how we use AI, write to info@brb-legal.com.
This page describes how the firm works today and will change as the technology and the law develop. It does not vary the terms of any engagement and is not legal advice. It is governed by the laws of India, and the courts at New Delhi have exclusive jurisdiction, as set out in our Terms of Use.
Contact
Write to us.
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