Six sibling specs for AI tools used by licensed attorneys — at law firms, in-house legal departments, public defenders, and legal-AI vendors. Distinct from sibling verticals: LegalTech covers attorneys' own AI use ethics, not regulators telling the private sector what to do. The Suite vertical 6-pack a law firm's Managing Partner + General Counsel + Information Security Officer + state bar disciplinary counsel need when AI tools touch privileged or work-product material.
ABA Model Rule 1.1 Comment 8 (competence with technology) · 1.6 + 1.6(c) (confidentiality + reasonable efforts) · 1.7 / 1.9 (conflict of interest) · 3.3 (candor toward tribunal — anti-hallucination) · 5.3 (supervision of non-lawyer assistants extended to AI) · 5.5 (unauthorized practice of law) · Attorney-client privilege (common law) · Work-product doctrine (Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(3)) · State bar formal opinions (CA Nov 2023 · NY-COSAC Apr 2024 · FL 24-1 · DC 388 · PA 2024-200 · TX 705 · IL 24-04) · ABA Formal Op 512 (Jul 2024 national baseline) · Federal court standing orders (SDNY Mata v. Avianca sanction Jun 2023 + analogues)
privilege_tier as a first-class field on every audit-stream event (8-value taxonomy: privileged · work-product · joint-defense · common-interest · public-record · pre-litigation-investigative-privilege · tribunal-disclosure-required · opposing-party-quarantine) — same enum cross-bound to the vault contract. conflict_check block bound to engagement_letter_url (not generic procurement). Citation-validation-before-production-ready invariant hard-coded post Mata v. Avianca. Privilege gets its own evidence-bundle family separate from confidentiality (waiver mechanics differ). COMPAS-cautionary + Batson-pattern detectors in the bias lab. 6-code privilege_waiver_risk_taxonomy in the Incident Card (Fed. R. Evid. 502(d) clawback as a distinct rung). ed25519 signature REQUIRED on Decision Card + Incident Card (LegalTech makes signature mandatory; sibling verticals leave it optional). Four LegalTech-unique runtime invariants: cross-matter-firewall, privilege-marker stamping, opposing-party-quarantine enforcement, no-training-data-use vendor contract clause REQUIRED.
Every Kinetic Gain Protocol Suite vertical 6-pack contains exactly these six artifact shapes. The same six shapes appear in every vertical — only the per-vertical content (data categories, regulatory basis, invariants) differs.
matter-decision-record-audit-stream14-kind event taxonomy + REQUIRED resource.privilege_tier on every event (LegalTech-unique 8-value taxonomy). Three invariants: privilege-tier consistency + engagement-letter binding (ABA 1.7/1.9) + citation-validation-before-production-ready (anti-Mata-v-Avianca)
state-bar-ai-disclosure-tracker9 jurisdictions seeded — ABA + 7 state bars (CA, NY-COSAC, FL, DC, PA, TX, IL) + SDNY (Mata v. Avianca sanction order as historical anchor). 16-state lifecycle covers opinion drafting → mandatory disclosure → enforcement action
aba-rule-1-6-readiness-evidence-bundle8 obligation families × 35 required evidence kinds. Treats attorney-client privilege preservation + work-product doctrine preservation as TWO separate families (waiver mechanics differ from confidentiality)
legal-applicant-bias-coverage-labAnchored to Title VI + Sixth Amendment + Batson v. Kentucky. Three LegalTech-unique subgroups: indigent_defendant_status + immigration_status_disclosed + criminal_history_band. Two unique coverage statuses: compas-cautionary-pattern-detected + batson-pattern-detected. Supervising-attorney review REQUIRED on four trigger categories
legal-ai-incident-card-profile18 event types incl Mata-v-Avianca court-sanctioned-hallucination class. 6-code privilege_waiver_risk_taxonomy. ed25519 signature REQUIRED. 10 referral pathways incl outside ethics counsel + state bar disciplinary counsel + court disclosure + criminal-defense Sixth-Amendment effective-assistance
attorney-client-data-vault-contract-profileDesign centerpiece. 18 data categories × 8 privilege tiers (same enum as audit-stream — typed cross-repo binding). 4 LegalTech-unique runtime invariants. Two unique protection levels: tokenized-and-not-as-model-input-by-default-cross-matter + privilege-marker-required-on-every-disclosure
The LegalTech audit-stream now has a full end-to-end reference implementation in Node.js: matter-decision-record-audit-stream-reference (AGPL-3.0).
It runs the canonical 7-step matter trajectory (intake → conflict check → privilege-tier assigned → brief draft → citation validated → work-product stamped → privilege log) through an attorney-client vault contract, emits Suite-compliant hash-chained events, and re-validates against the spec's published JSON Schema + all three orthogonal invariants simultaneously (privilege-tier consistency · engagement-letter binding · citation-validation-before-production-ready). Green CI is evidence the spec's three invariants are mutually achievable end-to-end, not just individually checkable.
The second of two reference implementations in the Suite (the first covered HealthTech). Together they're evidence the parallel-structure thesis works in code, not just on paper.
A buyer's procurement team operating across mixed regulated verticals — HealthTech AI vendors plus FinTech AI vendors plus LegalTech AI vendors — can apply the same six-shape Suite vocabulary to every vendor in every vertical. The kg-suite-vertical-router tool routes any artifact to the right vertical's verification logic with one CLI command. The kg-suite-vertical-comparator tool surfaces the SAME-vs-DIFFERENT design contributions across all eleven verticals as a single reference table.