Shadow AI Is the New Shadow IT: Why Mid-Market Law Firms Are Quietly Losing Control of Where Client Data Goes in 2026 — And the Confidentiality Reckoning Coming With It

Your attorneys are already using AI — just not the tools you approved. Pasting client facts into consumer chatbots has become the default, and most firms have no idea what's leaving the building. Here's why shadow AI is 2026's quiet confidentiality crisis, and why where your AI lives is now an ethics question, not just an IT one.