Function cockpit
Legal
Agents draft, extract and verify. Lawyers hold judgment and privilege.
Phase: Phase 2 — Bounded execution
Industrialize intake, drafting, obligation monitoring and regulatory sensing so legal attention concentrates on judgment, privilege, negotiation and representation.
Trust score
0
Touchless
0%
Human review
0%
Override rate
0%
Capacity released
30-50% released legal-operating capacity (not autonomous legal judgment)
Accountable human
General Counsel
CoS agent: Legal Chief of Staff
Gates, kill switches, and the decision ledger
Governance
Autonomy is only defensible if the brakes are documented
Every gate below names a threshold, an approver, and a clock. Everything the function has decided recently sits in the ledger underneath, whether a person or an agent made the call.
Active gates
0
Pending decisions
0
Approved this cycle
0
Contained or reversed
0
Gate register
The conditions under which an agent must stop and ask.
| Gate | Trigger threshold | Approver | SLA | Waivable |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Any external legal communication Approval gate | Every communication leaving the enterprise on a legal matter | Named lawyer | Same day | Hard stop |
Contract above $250,000 Approval gate | Contract value above $250,000 or nonstandard indemnity, unlimited liability or IP transfer | General Counsel delegate | 2 business days | Hard stop |
Settlement or regulator filing Approval gate | Any settlement, filing or regulator submission | General Counsel | Case dependent | Hard stop |
Citation and provenance audit Oversight | Every agent-produced document with external authority citations | Citation Verifier plus lawyer sign-off | Pre-release | Hard stop |
Decision ledger
Immutable record of what was decided, by whom, and how long it took.
- Oversight
Document blocked on unverifiable authority
ContainedHighCitation Verifier could not resolve two cited authorities in a draft position memo. Document blocked before circulation and the drafting chain was flagged for review.
Citation Verifier · 9d 6h ago
- Approval gate
Uncapped indemnity requested by counterparty
PendingHighPlaybook Reviewer identified an uncapped indemnity request on the Aurora master agreement and packaged three fallback positions with precedent evidence.
General Counsel delegate · 9d 9h ago
Requester can escalate only at this materiality - Escalation
Privilege boundary risk on shared drive
ContainedHighPrivilege & PII Screener detected counsel-marked material in a general repository. Access frozen, matter owner notified, remediation queued.
Privilege & PII Screener · 9d 10h ago
- Notification
Obligation calendar refreshed for 214 contracts
Auto-executedLowObligation Agent re-extracted commitments after a template revision and reassigned 31 obligations to correct owners.
Obligation Agent · 9d 12h ago
Kill switches
Named, tested, and reachable in one click by the accountable human.
- Invented or unverifiable authority cited
- Lost provenance on a material document
- Cross-matter data leakage
- Privilege exposure risk detected
- Unauthorized external filing attempt
Human accountability
Cannot be delegated to an agent at any autonomy level.
- Legal advice and privilege determinations
- Litigation strategy and any filing
- Novel interpretation and settlement
- Material deviation from playbook positions
- Regulator communication and waiver of rights
Signs for this function
General Counsel