Regulayer™ / Who requires a record
IN FORCE EVERYWHERE · CONSENT BEFORE INPUT
This one applies everywhere and is stricter than most lawyers realise. ABA Formal Opinion 512 remains current. There is no general duty to tell clients you used AI, but you must obtain client informed consent before putting information relating to the representation into a self-learning AI tool, and boilerplate engagement-letter language does not count. You must disclose if the client asks, if the output influences a significant decision, or if it affects your fee.
general consent language in an engagement letter is insufficient: consent must convey the specific risk and the specific benefit
Client information never leaves your machine, so the consent problem does not arise in the first place. The receipt carries fingerprints of the file, never the content and never the filename.
Regulayer™ makes the record. Software on your own machine that signs, at the moment you finish, which tool you declared, which checks you ran and who reviewed the work. Your client, your insurer or the court checks it in seconds, free, with no access to a word of your file.
See it work, no signupChecked 2 September 2026. Rules change: the authority itself governs, and this page is not legal advice.
When it is challenged
Opposing counsel looks at a sealed record and says: so what. What you say back →, in evidence-law terms, with the certification template.
A signed record of which AI you used and what you checked, sealed to the exact file you deliver, made on your own machine and checkable free by anyone you send it to.
