The judgment stays with the lawyer
A lawyer inside technology companies for more than two decades. I write about what AI does to legal work, and this is where I find out whether I'm right. The essays are at kenpriore.com. The papers and the prototypes are here.
Certificate of Action
A Trust Primitive for Verifiable Autonomous Legal AI Agent Workflows
When an autonomous agent does legal work, nothing today certifies what it did, under what authority, or whether a human reviewed it. The paper specifies that record and maps it onto the EU AI Act and the NIST AI framework.
The Fiduciary's Footprint
How Legal AI Agents Can Prove They Were Loyal
Fiduciary duty doesn't disappear when an AI agent makes the decision. It just becomes harder to prove. The paper maps the four fiduciary duties onto the four layers of a sealed record, with tools that exist today.
