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Generative AI in Law: Understanding the Latest Professional Guidelines

The integration of artificial intelligence (“AI”) into legal practice is no longer a future prospect. It’s a reality that many attorneys are facing today. As law firms and legal departments begin to adopt AI tools to enhance...more

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Navigating Ethical AI Guidelines from the ABA and State Bars

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The American Bar Association (ABA) and several state bars have recently issued guidelines on the ethical use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in legal practice. As AI tools like LLM-based chatbots become more...more

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Generative AI and Legal Ethics

The number of lawyers sanctioned for citing fake cases or quotes created by Generative Artificial Intelligence tools continues to grow. Earlier this summer, U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen ordered counsel to show cause as...more

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Dechert Re:Torts - Issue 19

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Testing the Waters: The Implications of Loper Bright on EPA’s New PFAS - Regulations - In the past year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) finalized several significant rules to regulate per- and...more

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Prosecutors and AI: Navigating Justice in the Age of Algorithms

AI has the potential to transform the criminal justice system through its ability to process vast datasets, recognize patterns, and predict outcomes. However, this potential comes with a profound responsibility: ensuring that...more

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ABA Issues Formal Guidance for Use of Generative AI: An Update to Ethical Rules for Using Generative AI in Your Practice

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As the “AI Revolution” continues to gain momentum, questions concerning professional ethics have arisen across almost all professions. For legal services providers in particular, this disruptive technology poses both risks...more

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ABA Issues Formal Ethics Opinion on Use of Generative AI Tools

Following in the footsteps of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and the state bars of California, Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, the American Bar Association has weighed in on attorneys' ethical use of...more

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American Bar Association Issues Formal Opinion on Use of Generative AI Tools

On July 29, 2024, the American Bar Association issued ABA Formal Opinion 512 titled “Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools.” The opinion addresses the ethical considerations lawyers are required to consider when using...more

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Gen AI and Attorney Ethics: A State-by-State Roundup

Be cautious, be curious, be vigilant, and be brave. Those were the words of the New York State Bar Association’s Task Force on Artificial Intelligence. It is good advice. GenAI is here and lawyers need to understand its...more

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Must a Lawyer Disclose Generative AI Use to Their Client? It Depends, but the Answer is Getting Clearer.

In a recently published ABA ethics opinion, the American Bar Association takes the position that a lawyer “must consider” whether they have a duty to disclose GAI use to their client, and concludes that lawyers “may tell...more

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This Week in eDiscovery: Preserving Relevant Data on Video Game Consoles, ABA Opinion on Generative AI

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Every week, the Array team reviews the latest news and analysis about the evolving field of eDiscovery to bring you the topics and trends you need to know. This week’s post covers the period of July 29 to Aug. 4. Here’s...more

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ABA Addresses Lawyer Generative AI Use: Key Takeaways from ABA's Latest Ethics Opinion

The American Bar Association (“ABA”) recently issued Formal Opinion 512, providing essential guidance for lawyers and law firms using Generative AI (“GAI”) tools. As we have written about previously, when lawyers employ GAI...more

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ABA Weighs in on Generative AI Use in Legal Practice

The American Bar Association’s (ABA) Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 512, attempting to provide guidance on the ethical considerations for lawyers using generative artificial...more

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Spring Cleaning in the AI Space: Five Key Takeaways from SEC’s Crackdown on “AI Washing”

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The proliferation of AI-powered offerings in the marketplace and discussions about AI's effect on jobs has become impossible to ignore. According to Goldman Sachs, 36% of S&P 500 companies mentioned AI on their earnings call...more

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DAG Monaco at ABA White Collar Conference: Self-Disclosure, Wanted Posters and AI

There were recently two significant speeches by Department of Justice (DOJ) officials at the American Bar Association National Institute on White Collar Crime. The first was by Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco. The second...more

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Regulators Put AI in Their Crosshairs at the ABA National Institute on White Collar Crime

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The American Bar Association’s National Institute on White Collar Crime has long focused on regulating, prosecuting, and defending evolving permutations of fraud, or allegedly fraudulent conduct. At the 39th annual event,...more

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ABA M&A Committee Meeting– 2024 Predictions Warming up in Laguna Beach

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We had a great time at the ABA Business Law Section M&A Committee Meeting in beautiful Laguna Beach. It was a nice way to wrap up January with some warm weather and interesting discussions on new developments and predictions...more

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Exploring AI’s Impact on Legal Practices: Insights from Legalweek 2024

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Legalweek 2024 was a significant event for the legal industry, showcasing a pivotal shift towards integrating and understanding generative artificial intelligence (AI) in a nuanced way. The conference held in New York City...more

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Will AI Deposition Assistants Be Ethical?

By now most lawyers are familiar with the story of DoNotPay, the company that promised to provide a traffic offense defendant with a “robot lawyer” to fight the ticket in court. The plan went like this: The defendant would be...more

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Behind the Bio | Jen Leonard is excited about Gen A.I.

Hello listeners, welcome back to Behind the Bio, LISI’s podcast where two lawyers talk about turning points in unusual careers. I’m your host, Julie Owsik Ackerman, and my conversation with Jen Leonard left me curious and...more

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Don’t Look for AI to Pick Your Jury…Yet

I don’t know if anything has ever in such a short time moved from being a pretty esoteric science topic to being a concern on everyone’s lips… but ChatGPT could probably tell me. With literally billions of uses per month, the...more

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Caution Signs Line the Road to Wider ChatGPT Adoption

ChatGPT and related artificial intelligence technologies are one of the most exciting developments to hit the legal profession in decades. Their ability to synthesize large datasets of legal information and deliver...more

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Computer: Will ChatGPT Be Useful for Discovery Depositions?

A frequent jab at the legal profession asserts that lawyers are a hopelessly old-fashioned, technology-averse lot that will have to be dragged into the future inch by ink-stained inch. Yet from all available evidence, this...more

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How Lawyers Can Prepare for the Future of AI in Legal with Bert Kaminski, Director of Legal for Google Cloud

Bert Kaminski is a seasoned legal counsel in the technology industry, specializing in advanced and emerging fields such as cloud computing, internet of things, artificial intelligence, data science & machine learning.  Bert...more

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The Ethics of AI in The Legal Profession

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The final installment of the virtual Legalweek(year) just concluded, with the fifth installment having completed this week, after previous iterations in February (the traditional time of year for in-person Legalweek), March,...more

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