How do you adjudicate a legal requirement for 'sourced...

Legal’s assumption that a citation mark equals verification is technically flawed. To bridge this gap, you can implement a support check that validates the cited passage against the claim, which is faster to build than full retrieval-conditioned generation. If this gate cannot be built within the required timeline, you must explicitly inform legal that a bare citation mark will not survive an audit, thereby forcing a re-evaluation of the project’s scope and deadline.