Legal Documents in a Walled Garden: What the Architecture Describes, What the Client's Legal Counsel Decides

A law firm's documents living inside a proprietary platform raise an architectural question before a legal one: in what format do they come out, and at what cost? This article describes an on-prem architecture for legal documents — what's a verifiable fact, what isn't — and why, in the US, data portability stays a contractual question for the client's own counsel, not a technical fact.