Attorney-client privilege
The legal doctrine that protects confidential communications between a lawyer and client from forced disclosure — protection that extends to recordings, notes and transcripts of those communications.
Attorney-client privilege keeps confidential lawyer-client communications out of discovery. The protection can be waived, however, if privileged material is shared with a third party without adequate safeguards — and uploading a recorded client call to a cloud transcription vendor can be argued to do exactly that.
That risk is why law firms favour on-prem transcription, where the audio and transcripts never leave the firm’s control, backed by access controls and audit logs. For the most sensitive matters, an air-gapped deployment removes external network exposure altogether. For tooling that fits privileged work, see best transcription for HIPAA, legal & privacy.