Confidentiality and privilege

How it stays between you and your client.

This page is the detail behind the promise: what travels where, who can see it, what is recorded, and where a judge still has the final word. Send it to your partner, your IT person or your carrier.

In one minute

  • The client's facts are written to you on LegalNod's own private page
  • The AI works on the matter only after you accept, and at your written direction
  • Every matter keeps a tamper-evident record you can export
  • You give the advice. LegalNod is the software that carries it

What travels where.

Three things move in a nod. Each has its own route.

The question

In the client's AI chat. When a legal question comes up, their AI offers to bring you in and opens a nod. It passes a topic, and questions for your client to answer. It passes no account of the matter.

The facts

On LegalNod's own private page. Your client writes their account there, to you, and attaches the documents. It is stored encrypted and comes to you first. Their AI receives it once you have accepted and sent your direction.

Your advice

From your desk on LegalNod. Your direction and your answer are written by you, sent by you, and shown to your client as coming from you, with your name on them.

Before you accept, and after.

The moment you accept a matter is the line everything is organized around.

Before you accept
  • Your client writes their own account on the private page
  • Documents that already existed can be attached as they are
  • Their AI may write questions for them to answer, and nothing about the facts
  • For a former client, you see the other party first and clear the conflict before any facts reach you
  • Your client sees your engagement terms and your fee, and agrees to them
Under the Nod
  • You have accepted and sent a written direction, in your own words
  • Their AI works to that direction and saves working notes for you
  • Documents it prepares are labelled as prepared by the AI
  • If it needs a decision from you, it asks, and waits
  • The work comes back for your review, and your advice closes the nod

LegalNod never drafts your direction, never suggests a fee, and never answers a client. Those are yours.

Structured for privilege. A judge decides.

In United States v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y., Feb. 17, 2026) the court held that a client's own AI chats were neither privileged nor work product, and remarked that AI used at counsel's direction might arguably function as a lawyer's agent within the privilege.

LegalNod is built around that distinction: a communication to counsel, made in confidence, with AI work done at counsel's written direction and a record that shows it. The court's remark was an aside and no court has ruled on this exact arrangement. 25 Cr. 503 (JSR), ECF No. 27.

Where the line sits.

What your client typed into an AI before bringing you in sits outside a nod, and so does anything they discuss with their AI outside the matter.

Their AI is run by its own provider under that provider's terms. When they connect, your client confirms their account is set to keep conversations out of model training.

What is recorded, and what you can show.

If you are ever asked how a matter was handled, the answer is already written down.

A record for every matter

Who did what and when: the account sent, the conflict cleared, the terms agreed, your direction, each working note, the review and your answer.

Tamper-evident

Each entry is chained to the one before it, so a changed or missing entry shows. Each time a document is opened on your side is an entry too.

Yours to keep

Download any matter, or all of them, whenever you like: the account, your directions, the notes, the work, your answers and the record itself.

If you use an AI assistant yourself.

You can connect your own assistant to your LegalNod desk. It reads with you and drafts for you. Sending stays in your hands.

  • It lists what is waiting and opens a matter with you
  • Names are left out of what it reads unless you ask for them
  • It can place a draft on LegalNod for you to read, change and send
  • Each time it reads a matter is noted in that matter's record
  • You confirm your AI account keeps what you enter confidential before it connects

What partners, IT and carriers ask.

Straight answers.

Is LegalNod a law firm, or a party to the engagement?

No. LegalNod is software. The engagement is between the attorney and the client, on the attorney's own terms. LegalNod gives no legal advice, recommends no attorney, and takes no share of a legal fee.

How is matter content stored?

The client's account, what they need decided, the other party, your directions and answers, working notes, questions and documents are encrypted in storage. Sign-in codes and connection tokens are kept only as fingerprints.

Who can see a matter?

The client who opened it, the attorney it was sent to, and colleagues that attorney has put on their team for it. A company legal team sees matters from its own company's people.

Does LegalNod train AI models on client matters?

No. Matter content is used to run the service for you and your client. It is not used to train models and it is not sold.

What does the client's AI assistant receive?

Before you accept, a topic and the nod's status. Once the matter is Under the Nod, it receives your written direction, your answers to its questions, and the account your client wrote, so the work starts from the same facts you read. That handover is an entry in the matter's record.

How do attorneys and clients sign in?

With a code sent to their email address, and with a passkey on devices where they add one. There are no passwords to reuse or leak.

What happens to documents a client removes or a matter they withdraw?

A document removed before sending is erased. If a client withdraws a matter before you accept it, the documents left on it are erased.

Can we take our records with us?

Yes. Every matter can be downloaded, one at a time or all together, at any time, including the record of what happened on it.

What if LegalNod receives a legal demand for matter content?

Where the law allows, we tell the attorney concerned so they can assert any protection that applies.

The full terms are in the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.

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