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title: The hidden cost of ungoverned AI in legal
description: AI is only as reliable as the content it reads. Learn how law firms can govern SharePoint and Microsoft 365 before rolling out Copilot. Free whitepaper.
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# **Why is your firm’s AI so confidently wrong?**

### This whitepaper explores why AI readiness in legal is a governance problem before it is a technology problem, with a practical framework for Microsoft 365 intranets and insights from Pierre-Eric Jacoupy, Chief Product Officer at Powell.

 

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### **Why download this whitepaper?**

**See why AI gets it wrong**  
Understand how assistants like Copilot retrieve before they reason, and what that means for your firm.

**Know your real exposure**  
Learn where privilege, confidentiality and outdated precedent put your firm at risk.

**Make the intranet your front door**  
See why AI readiness is decided by the content behind your intranet, more than by the model.

**Apply a four-pillar framework**  
Put ownership, findability, lifecycle and access to work across your content.

**Share the responsibility**  
See how IT, knowledge management, HR and communications each own part of AI readiness.

**Ask vendors the right questions**  
Use a clear checklist to test your intranet provider’s AI governance roadmap.

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### **Who is this whitepaper for?**

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**Law firm CIOs and IT leaders** preparing Microsoft 365 and SharePoint for Copilot and AI agents.

**Knowledge management leaders** responsible for keeping precedent and expertise current and trusted.

**Innovation and legal operations leaders** evaluating how AI fits safely into everyday legal work.

**Firm administrators and COOs** balancing productivity gains with risk, compliance and client trust.

**HR and internal communications teams** rolling out AI policies and guiding people through the change.

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