Legal
Law firms and corporate legal departments cannot trade attorney-client privilege for AI productivity. DataDam is the governance layer that lets agents work alongside your most confidential data without breaking the rules that protect it.
Pressure
Three exposures every legal team is carrying. Each maps to a control that has to live below the agent, not in it.
Attorney-client privilege rests on a confidentiality expectation. Sending privileged matter content to a third-party model whose retention practices you cannot audit is the kind of waiver argument opposing counsel will run with at deposition.
Conflict screens between matters protected the firm before agents existed. An agent that pulls across matter boundaries to answer a research question can punch through a wall in milliseconds. The wall has to be enforced at the data layer, not the prompt layer.
Every record of which agent read which document is potentially discoverable. An incomplete log is worse than no log. Append-only with tamper evidence is the only defensible posture.
Workloads
Three patterns we see across every legal pilot. The risk column is what your malpractice carrier will ask you about. The control column is the answer.
Risk without governance
A research assistant agent that reads across matters bypasses the conflict screen and surfaces privileged material to lawyers without authorization on that matter.
DataDam control
Per-matter access control enforced at the proxy. The agent only sees documents the matter assignment authorizes for that user. Cross-matter queries are blocked, not just discouraged.
Risk without governance
Client names, deal terms, and counterparty identifiers ship to the model on every chunk. A vendor breach exposes deal pipeline, fee structure, and merger-and-acquisition activity at once.
DataDam control
Tokenize mode swaps client and deal identifiers for reversible tokens before the model sees them. The agent reasons over deal patterns; the names stay inside the proxy.
Risk without governance
High-volume review agents are the exact tool a malicious actor would use to exfiltrate. Without an audit trail, you cannot prove what the agent actually accessed.
DataDam control
Immutable audit rollup with hash-chained tamper evidence. Lineage graph traces each output to the documents that informed it. Configurable retention to match firm policy.
Operating model
The proxy runs inside the firm or inside the corporate network. It connects to document management (iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint), matter-management systems, and data warehouses. It does not require lifting documents to a new store.
Per-matter access control is configured through your existing matter-team assignments. The proxy enforces the screen on every request automatically. No manual policy authoring per matter. Conflicts surface as deny decisions before the model is ever called.
Audit retention defaults to firm policy. Evidence exports are CSV or JSON, sized for delivery to outside counsel or to a regulator without further transformation.
The proxy is an OCI image that drops into your existing environment. Connect your document management, matter system, and warehouse. Apply firm policy through the console. Show the carrier a complete audit trail and a working ethical-wall enforcement layer in the same review.