Legal Ethics: The Latest Guidance on Using Generative AI in Your Practice

In the latest installment of this popular series, Zach McGee reviews the top three ways that lawyers are using Generative Artificial Intelligence (“GAI”) tools in our practices today, i.e., for document review, legal research and document summarization, side-by-side with the latest guidance issued by the ABA and influential bar associations in California and New York to help lawyers use these tools in ways that don’t violate our legal ethics obligations. Before you consider using GAI tools for these or other tasks, you need to make sure you understand exactly how these tools work, what they can do and what they can’t, how reliable they are or aren’t, and most importantly, what legal ethics issues can arise. This program gives you the guidance you need to stay on the right side of the legal ethics rules as you begin incorporating GAI tools into your legal practice.