For firms
Your clients are
already using AI.
Nobody directed it.
In February 2026 a federal judge answered the question for the first time. A represented defendant's conversations with a consumer AI assistant were not privileged. Confidentiality failed independently of direction, because the provider's terms permitted access — so attorney direction alone would not have cured it on these facts. Direction and a confidential channel are both required, and consumer tools cannot supply the second.
Kovel is the channel your firm directs, and the record that proves you directed it before anyone asked.
Individual
$500/ matter
Three years, for the price of one.
Most matters run about a year. You get three, so the matter closes before the access does. Unlimited conversations within it. Bring your own attorney or use ours.
Firm
$6,000/ year
Plus $500 per client matter, per year.
Every attorney at the firm gets access and the training, at no charge per lawyer. Unlimited conversations within each matter. $1,000 credited back once your first five clients are onboarded.
Corporate
Let's talk
In-house legal departments.
Volume matters, your own counsel directing, SSO and retention policy set to your schedule. Pricing on the contract, not on a page.
Start a conversation →Onboarding credit
$1,000 back once your first five clients are onboarded
The credit appears as a line on your next invoice the moment the fifth client is live. Counted by client, not by matter. Invoiced net 30 by ACH or cheque — no card required.
- —Unlimited conversations within each matter
- —Direction memo and engagement templates
- —Automatic contemporaneous session records
- —Matter-level privilege log export
- —Attorney review routing from client to counsel
The training
Self-paced, personalised to practice area and jurisdiction, with a trainer you can argue with. Take it in one sitting or across a week; it picks up where you left off. It ends with the part that makes money rather than costs it: how to ask for the other side's AI history, which almost nobody is doing yet.
The ruling everyone is misquoting
What Heppner held — and the four things it did not.
Kovel, 1961
The doctrine Rakoff pointed at, and where Cavallaro stops it.
Where your clients are exposed
Four surfaces, and the ninety-second client conversation.
A channel that survives a challenge
Engagement, direction, record — and what you'll be asked for.
Setting up a client
Inviting, scoping, and exporting the privilege record.
Asking for their chats
Preservation timing, Rule 34, and testing their claim.
On CLE credit
This course is not accredited for CLE. A New York application is in preparation, in the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Protection category.
Credit cannot be awarded retroactively for a course taken before approval — so take this one for what it teaches. When the accredited version lands, everyone who completed this one is invited back to take it free of charge, and the credit is earned there.
For your clients
The version you hand to a client
Training your attorneys solves half the problem. The other half is that every one of your clients is already exposed and none of them know it — a conversation you would otherwise have one at a time. Founder Privilege is the same research written for the person who signs the engagement letter. Bulk pricing on request.
About the bookWhat the firm can see, and what it cannot
Billing rolls up. Privilege does not.
A firm administrator sees the attorney roster, training status, how many seats are in use and by whom, and the invoices. They do not see client matters, conversations, documents or privilege exports — and neither does any other attorney at the firm. That is architecture rather than a setting: your client engaged an individual attorney, and two attorneys in one building can sit on opposite sides of a screened matter.
Nothing here is legal advice, and using Kovel does not create an attorney-client relationship with Kovel. Privilege depends on the facts of a matter and the law of a jurisdiction; the templates are starting points for licensed counsel to adapt.