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NIST AI RMF · MANAGE for legal AI workflows

NIST AI RMF · MANAGE in legal AI workflows: what compliance requires, who asks for evidence, and the records to keep.

Legal forceVoluntary framework
Applies from26 Jan 2023
SectorLaw
Checked21 Oct 2026

01 / The rule

What NIST AI RMF · MANAGE requires

Organizations adopting the AI RMF; MANAGE is done by system owners and risk owners who decide and carry out risk responses.

  1. 01Decide whether the AI system meets its purpose and should proceed; prioritize risk treatment by impact and likelihood (MANAGE 1.1, 1.2).
  2. 02Plan and document responses to high-priority risks: mitigate, transfer, avoid or accept (MANAGE 1.3).
  3. 03Assign mechanisms and responsibility to supersede, disengage or deactivate AI systems performing outside intended use (MANAGE 2.4).
  4. 04Monitor third-party AI resources and pre-trained models and apply documented controls (MANAGE 3.1, 3.2).
  5. 05Implement post-deployment monitoring plans with user input, appeal and override, and decommissioning (MANAGE 4.1).
  6. 06Track, respond to, recover from and communicate incidents and errors (MANAGE 4.3).

02 / In this sector

In a legal AI workflow

AI-specific. It covers risk treatment and lifecycle response for AI systems, including shutdown and incident handling.

Usually asked by

General counsel and litigation support.

Named alongside

FRE 702 · ABA Model Rules.

Sector pagePlanisphere for law

03 / Records

Records to keep

  1. 01Go or no-go decision record for deployment
  2. 02Risk treatment plan with accepted residual risk
  3. 03Post-deployment monitoring plan and override or deactivation procedure
  4. 04Incident log with response, recovery and communication records

Optional evidence · where Planisphere fits

Keep a record anyone can check

When your team meets a duty, Planisphere can seal the event it reports as a receipt.

01 · Your teamRecord the event

A disclosure shown, a review signed, a model change approved: the event your system reports.

02 · PlanisphereSeal it

The event becomes a sealed receipt, dated and attributed to whoever is signed in.

03 · AnyoneCheck it

Paste the receipt into Verify. No account or key.

A record supports your compliance evidence process. It is not a legal finding or a certification. Systems that call Planisphere's gate API can also hold or refuse an action before it runs.

SOURCES

Go back to the source

PRIMARY
PRIMARY
AI Risk Management Framework

National Institute of Standards and Technology

GUIDANCE
NIST AI RMF Playbook

NIST Trustworthy and Responsible AI Resource Center

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