Field Notes on AI Governance for Canadian Law Firms

AI governance for Canadian law firms is a different discipline than AI governance anywhere else. Solicitor-client privilege, law society obligations, and Canadian data-residency expectations don't bend to accommodate a convenient tool.
 

This is where I work through what that actually requires in a solo or small practice — grounded in law society guidance, privacy legislation, and published decisions, linked so you can check the reasoning yourself.
 

I'm not a lawyer. I came to this from nine years in aviation, where the gap between a written procedure and a completed one is where things go wrong. That gap is the subject of most of what I write.