How LEAP’s Legal AI Tools Align with the Law Society’s Guidance on Responsible AI Use

“AI won’t replace you, but a lawyer using AI will.”

That statement has never been more relevant, especially in light of the Law Society of Ireland’s July 2025 guidance on the responsible use of AI in legal practice.

At LEAP, our approach to legal AI is built on the same principles the Law Society promotes: accuracy, human oversight, trustworthy data, and purpose-built tools for legal professionals.

Understanding the Law Society’s guidance

The Law Society’s recently published guidance, Mitigating AI Hallucinations, outlines several critical safeguards legal practitioners should adopt when using AI. Their message is clear: reduce the risk of incorrect or fabricated case citations (“hallucinations”) and ensure legal professionals maintain control over the advice and insights AI tools provide.

The guidance urges practitioners to:

• Implement human verification of AI-generated output

• Use authoritative legal sources

• Avoid general-purpose AI models for legal research

• Preference for AI trained on legal-specific data sets

LEAP’s AI tools are purpose-built for law firms

Too often, “AI” is painted with a single brush. But there’s a critical difference between general-purpose tools and domain-specific legal AI tools.

LEAP offers a growing suite of legal AI solutions specifically designed to assist solicitors in their daily work.

Our legal AI tools do not rely on internet-trained language models to generate speculative legal content. Instead, our tools are tightly integrated into your practice’s workflows, enhancing your work, not guessing at it.

To demonstrate how our AI aligns with the Law Society’s guidance, we’ll explore two of LEAP’s core legal AI tools: Matter AI and LawY.

Matter AI: instant answers from within your matters

Matter AI intelligently analyses the contents of a LEAP matter, emails, notes, documents, correspondence, and delivers immediate answers and insights. You simply ask a question and Matter AI responds using only the data from that specific matter.

That means:

• It doesn’t hallucinate information

• It doesn’t rely on open internet content

• It operates in a secure, closed environment

LawY: your trusted AI legal assistant

LawY combines the speed of AI with the safeguards of human legal expertise. When a legal query is submitted:

• AI generates a preliminary response

• Users can then choose to have the answer verified by an Ireland-based qualified solicitor, to improve the accuracy of the instant AI answers

This ensures that every answer provided is:

• Jurisdictionally accurate

• Verified against reliable legal sources

• Compliant with the Law Society’s expectations for human oversight

Legal AI that enhances, not replaces, lawyers

Integrating legal AI into legal practices doesn’t diminish the role of lawyers, it enhances their capabilities.

Our legal AI tools automate routine tasks, accelerate document review, and highlight key information, allowing solicitors to focus on high-value tasks that require human judgement and creativity.

In summary, a responsible approach to legal AI

By choosing LEAP, Irish solicitors can embrace AI confidently, knowing they are:

• Using tools purpose-built for legal practice

• Working within a secure, closed data environment

• Benefiting from human oversight and expert verification

LEAP’s suite of legal AI tools are built to streamline daily legal work, reduce admin, and empower solicitors to work more efficiently, without compromising on accuracy or control.

You can learn more about the full range of LEAP’s legal AI tools here: https://www.leapsoftware.ie/legal-ai