‘The rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into the legal practice has transformed the profession, significantly improving efficiency in areas such as legal research, drafting, eDiscovery, and client interactions. However, this rapid adoption has introduced ethical, regulatory, and professional challenges, including risks of AI hallucinations, breaches of client confidentiality, embedded biases, professional responsibility and liability, and concerns about the unauthorized practice of law. Each of these challenges implicates fundamental duties under the rules professional conduct, such as the duty of competence, duty of honesty and candour, and duty of confidentiality. The paper explores how these ethical duties provide a framework for analyzing AI’s impact on legal practice, and how professional regulators can ensure that technological innovation does not undermine lawyers’ accountability and the integrity of the justice system.’
Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5505679
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