CONFERENCE REPORT: AI Use by Lawyers Requires Vigilance

If you think your firm’s lawyers aren’t using generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, “you’re not in touch with reality,” moderator Barry F. MacEntee told an audience at “We Were Promised Jetpacks,” a program at Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP’s 24th Annual Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference in Chicago March 5. Indeed, he noted, every time you do a search on your computer or phone, “the first results are from GenAI.”

The panelists discussed recent guidance from bar authorities and state supreme courts that has clarified lawyers’ ethical duties of competence (Rule 1.1), communication with clients (Rules 1.2 and 1.4), confidentiality ...