Open-Source AI Policy Templates

We wrote our own generative AI policy, adopted it firm-wide, and released it to the public domain (CC0): a law-firm template and a small/medium-business template, free for any organization to adapt and adopt, with no permission or attribution required.

Two ready-to-use templates

Each template ships as Markdown, Word (.docx), and PDF.

01

Law-Firm Template

Privilege and confidentiality, mandatory citation verification, court disclosure rules, AI notetaker consent, agentic AI, employment-decision limits, and jurisdiction-specific bar guidance.

02

Business (SMB) Template

The same backbone adapted for general business: trade secrets, customer and vendor commitments, IP, consumer-protection and privacy law, and customer-facing AI deployments.

Two ways to start

Good AI governance shouldn't be a luxury.

The largest enterprises meet AI disruption with dedicated AI counsel and in-house governance teams. Smaller firms and businesses shouldn't have to solve the same problems from scratch. So we open-sourced our own policy as a starting point any organization can take, adapt, and build on.

A policy document is necessary but not sufficient. Real governance is a program: inventory your AI use, assess and prioritize risks, assign accountability, train people, and review controls as tools and laws change (for example, along the NIST AI Risk Management Framework). The templates are a strong first step, not the finish line.

Want it tailored and reviewed by counsel?

These templates are a starting point, not legal advice. FRB's AI team can customize the policy for your tools, jurisdictions, and risk tolerance, and help you build the governance program around it.

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