Private LLM for a Law Firm: The Questions Firms Ask Before They Build One

eSoftware Associates, a 20-year Microsoft partner, addresses key questions from midsize law firms considering private LLM deployments. The company explains that private LLMs run within a firm's Azure cloud subscription, keeping data secure and under firm control. ESW emphasizes that retrieval-based approaches are preferable to custom model training, permission-based access controls protect privileged materials, and data is not used to train external models in private Azure deployments.