December 2019
Friday, December 13, 2019
Ethics & Artificial Intelligence: What Lawyers Should Know
Topics to be covered:
- What duties do lawyers have to investigate and understand AI in the tools they use?
- Does AI constitute the unauthorized practice of law (UPL) in a state?
- Do form assembly and language drafting software packages violate ethics rules?
- What supervisory and training obligations do lawyers have for non-lawyer staff using these tools?
- Are there ethics concerns of using AI in discovery?
- Must lawyers warn clients that they use AI?
Faculty: David Hricik, Mercer University School of Law, Macon, GA and Thomas Spahn, McGuire Woods LLP, McLean, Virginia