AI for lawyers, without breaching legal professional privilege

Velado lets lawyers use ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot with pleadings, contracts and opinions without revealing privileged facts: party names, tax IDs, ID cards, addresses, case numbers and contacts become codes on the firm's computer and are restored at the end.

Your duty of secrecy

Lawyers owe confidentiality over everything they learn through their practice. In England and Wales the SRA Code of Conduct requires solicitors to keep the affairs of current and former clients confidential; in the United States it's ABA Model Rule 1.6 as adopted by each state bar; in Malta, the Professional Secrecy Act (Cap. 377); in Portugal, article 92 of the Bar statute. Breaches carry disciplinary consequences and can put privilege at risk.

Documents you handle

Pleadings and applications in Word
Contracts and drafts
Opinions and memos
Court documents in PDF, including scans

What you can ask the AI

Summarise a long statement of claim
Compare contract versions and flag risky changes
Draft a first opinion from the facts
Build a case timeline from documents

What Velado covers

Party and witness names, companies, National Insurance and Social Security numbers, PPS numbers, tax and VAT numbers, ID cards, passports, IBANs and bank details, case and matter numbers, addresses and postcodes, phones, emails and licence plates.

On your computer

Client Ferragens Almeida, Lda., tax ID 123 456 789, IBAN PT50 0002 0123 1234 5678 9015 4

What the AI sees

Client [ENTIDADE_1], tax ID [NIF_1], IBAN [IBAN_1]

FAQ

Is pseudonymisation enough to keep privilege?

It greatly reduces risk because the AI service never receives the data that identifies the parties. Case context can still identify someone: the final review before sending is always the lawyer's.

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