Generative AI changes how information is created, but it does not change the lawyer's duties of competence, confidentiality, communication, professional judgment, supervision, candor, or responsibility for the final product.
Al has not reduced the lawyer's responsibility. It has increased the amount of material the lawyer must evaluate before exercising professional judgment.
This trend raises fundamental ethical questions about competence, confidentiality, client communication, candor to the tribunal, and the lawyer's independent professional judgment.
This ethics hour addresses the professional risks that arise and the lawyers' non-delegable duties of competence, diligence, candor and supervision when clients attempt to control strategy or drafting.
CLE Ethics credit pending.
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