AI-Use Disclosure Clause Assembler for Sydney In-House Counsel: Compliant Disclosure Language, Drafted to the Rule

Your commercial team ran a contract negotiation through an LLM to compress turnaround. Your litigation panel firm filed an interlocutory application on Monday with AI-assisted drafting embedded somewhere in the pipeline. The board wants to know that every external-facing document touched by a model carries the right disclosure — and you have to translate the Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules, the Federal Court’s GPN-AI, and the Administrative Review Tribunal’s directions into a single clause your panel firms can actually use. The Disclosure Clause Assembler builds that clause from the rule, not from a template you found on the internet.

Why it matters now

The Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules (ASCR) — developed by the Law Council of Australia and adopted in New South Wales as the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules 2015 — set the professional and ethical obligations every solicitor instructing on behalf of your organisation is bound by. Rule 19 (duty to the court) and Rule 4 (other fundamental ethical duties, including honesty) frame how AI-assisted work product must be represented when it reaches a court, tribunal, or counterparty. The Federal Court’s GPN-AI and the ART’s general AI directions layer specific disclosure expectations on top: where generative AI has been used to prepare a document filed in proceedings, the practitioner has obligations around verification and, where required, disclosure. For in-house counsel running a Sydney legal function — instructing both internal teams and external panel firms — the practical question is concrete: what exact words appear in the affidavit, the submission, the contract recital, or the panel-firm engagement letter? Getting that wrong creates a compliance gap that survives the matter and shows up in audit.

The 5-minute view

AI-use disclosure obligations now sit across multiple instruments: ASCR (professional conduct), Federal Court GPN-AI (proceedings before that court), ART AI directions (administrative review matters), and emerging state Supreme Court practice notes
Each instrument expresses the disclosure differently — what counts as “used”, what must be disclosed, to whom, and when
A single boilerplate disclosure clause copied across all filings creates two failure modes: under-disclosure (breaches the stricter rule) or over-disclosure (creates evidentiary problems and unnecessary admissions)
For in-house counsel, the practical control surface is the engagement letter with panel firms and the internal AI-use policy — both need clause language that maps cleanly to the governing rule
The Disclosure Clause Assembler takes the matter context (forum, document type, nature of AI use) and assembles a clause whose language traces to the specific source rule
The agent runs locally and does not transmit matter context to external LLMs

What Exegesis is building

The Disclosure Clause Assembler is a deterministic clause-building tool inside RuleCheck by Exegesis — the local-first, no-external-LLM compliance utility for Australian legal teams. RuleCheck is live in beta at rulecheck.onrender.com. The Disclosure Clause Assembler takes structured input — forum (Federal Court, ART, NSW Supreme Court, commercial), document type (originating process, affidavit, written submission, contract, board paper), and the category of AI use (drafting assistance, summarisation, citation lookup, translation) — and assembles a disclosure clause whose component sentences are mapped to the specific source rule. Each clause output carries a per-sentence source trail back to the governing instrument (ASCR rule number, GPN-AI paragraph, ART direction reference). The clause is generated deterministically from the rule library, not paraphrased by a language model.

The deliverable

A drafted AI-use disclosure clause sized to the forum and document type
Per-sentence source mapping back to the ASCR, GPN-AI, or ART direction the language reflects
Variants for: court-filed documents, tribunal documents, contract recitals, panel-firm engagement letters, internal AI-use policy attachments
Markdown and plain-text output suitable for paste into your document automation stack or matter management system
Audit log entry recording which rules the clause was assembled from and the matter context supplied
Delivered via the RuleCheck web interface; clause assembly completes in seconds

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Join the waitlist — be the first to know when access opens for Sydney in-house legal teams

The Disclosure Clause Assembler is in beta inside RuleCheck. We’re scoping pricing — per-clause, per-seat for legal ops, or enterprise licence for legal functions running large panel-firm rosters. Join the waitlist and tell us how your function handles AI-use disclosure today; that input shapes how the access tiers actually work.

Sources

Law Council of Australia — Australian Solicitors’ Conduct Rules: https://lawcouncil.au/policy-agenda/regulation-of-the-profession-and-ethics/australian-solicitors-conduct-rules
Federal Court of Australia — Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence Practice Note (GPN-AI): https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-practice/practice-documents/practice-notes/gpn-ai
Federal Court of Australia — Rules, Acts & Regulations: https://www.fedcourt.gov.au/law-and-practice/rules-acts-and-regulations

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