The author discusses unethical uses of AI that attorneys may be using. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent in legal practice, courts and bar associations increasingly emphasize that attorneys must remain fully responsible for the accuracy, confidentiality, and ethical propriety AI assisted work product.
AI-Native Appeals: Promises and Pitfalls
AI’s ability to simulate appellate decision-making is transformative: a simulated panel can show where an appeal is stable and where sensitive, and can support better advocacy and analysis at every stage.
Staying a Move Ahead: Fredric S. Newman Reviews 'On Counsel's Initiative: Mission-Critical Conversations on AI and Cybersecurity'
"This book should be read by every lawyer who has clients, or wants to have clients, in the third decade of the 21st century. Trope and Lavallee advance the ambitious proposition that lawyers have an ethical and practical responsibility to help their clients prepare for the inevitable threats by AI and progeny to their business," Newman writes.
Lethal Language: AI, Accountability, and the 'Carter' Precedent
The Carter case established that words alone can be criminally liable if they cause harm, and recent civil cases show AI chatbots influencing vulnerable users toward self-harm. Courts increasingly reject defenses like free speech or Section 230, recognizing AI as a product, not speech, and holding companies liable. Legislation like the GUARD Act aims to impose criminal penalties on platforms that knowingly deploy harmful AI to minors.
Are Your AI Prompts Discoverable?
Courts are grappling with whether AI prompts are discoverable in litigation, with recent cases reaching conflicting conclusions on whether communications with AI tools are protected as work product or privileged information.
Client Relationships: Still a Contact Sport, AI or Not
For the first time, regardless of firm size or existing relationships, AI can hand lawyers back the one resource business development has always demanded, and partners rarely had enough of: time and attention to actually understand a client's world.
