AI Statement

AI Statement

AI-Statement

Schaap Advocaten Notarissen

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in legal practice. Lawyers and civil-law notaries are making greater use of AI applications to support tasks such as legal research, document analysis and the drafting of contracts and memoranda. Schaap Advocaten Notarissen recognises that AI can be a valuable tool, provided it is used safely and responsibly. To make the most of the opportunities AI offers while ensuring its safe and responsible use, we have established an internal AI policy with clear guidelines.
 
We exclusively use internally approved AI applications to support our legal services, namely Libra by Wolters Kluwer and Microsoft 365 Copilot. These applications have been selected because they help improve the quality of legal work, provide a robust level of privacy and security, do not use data to train or improve AI models, and ensure that data processing does not take place outside the EU and/or the European Economic Area (EEA).

Employees of Schaap Advocaten Notarissen who use AI are aware of the associated risks, including:

  • Hallucinations: AI applications may generate incorrect or fabricated information.

  • Lack of transparency: It can be difficult to determine how AI applications arrive at their outputs.

  • Dependence on quality: AI outputs are only as reliable as the underlying models, algorithms and the queries or prompts entered.

  • Automation bias: The human tendency to place excessive trust in the outputs of automated systems, such as AI applications.


To manage these risks, our employees always adhere to our internal AI policy. This means, among other things, that AI-generated outputs are never accepted without verification. Our employees retain ultimate responsibility for legal assessments: all AI-generated outputs are manually reviewed for legal relevance and factual accuracy before being used.

We always seek our clients’ consent before using AI. Clients may refuse the use of AI at any time and may withdraw their consent at any point.

If you have any questions about the use of AI at Schaap Advocaten Notarissen, please contact us at compliance@schaap.eu.