Clients are increasingly turning to AI before they speak with outside counsel, and sometimes after, by pasting legal advice, contract language, or other work product into a public AI model to ask follow-up questions. Used thoughtfully, these tools can help clients frame questions and organize information, but an answer that sounds confident is not necessarily
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American Bar Association Issues Formal Opinion on Use of Generative AI Tools
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Artificial Intelligence
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 generative AI (GenAI) tools in the practice of law.
The opinion sets forth the ethical rules to consider, including the duties of competence, confidentiality…