Ethics for the AI-powered Lawyer
Overview
Discover how timeless legal ethics shape cutting-edge tech—essential for today’s lawyers!
Generative AI has been around for nearly two years now. We’ve begun to see some very useful real life applications in legal research and practice management tools, but we remain concerned about its flaws and limitations. It can produce results that are skewed by the data it’s trained on (biases), it can throw in un-nuanced or inaccurate content that might be hard to detect and its output is sometimes wrong or confabulated.
For all the benefits, there are extra risks for lawyers to consider. Our biggest concern is to ensure that our use of AI meets the standards for legal services – that we abide by our ethical duties to our clients in providing competent, appropriately priced services whilst maintaining our client’s confidentiality, and that we don’t breach intellectual property rights. We don’t just need the tech skills, we need to practice safely, competently and ethically.
In this session we will cover:
- A recap on how AI works, and how that affects its results – good and bad!
- How AI is being deployed in legal services
- Responses of courts and regulators
- How the rules of Ethics apply to the use of AI
- Principles for safe and ethical use
- Policy settings in your firm.
The session will feature case studies and examples, and give you many practical tips to guide you in your use of this revolutionary technology.
Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this session attendees will:
- Understand how the way AI works impacts on its results.
- Be able to identify risks inherent to the use of AI in legal services and how to manage them.
- Understand and apply the rules of ethics in the use of AI.
- Describe the policy settings required in a law firm for the use of AI.
Suited to:
Legal services; also applicable to any professional service that handles sensitive and high risk client information. Any professional who owes fiduciary duties to their clients.
This On Demand Includes:
- Recording of the Live Webinar, which can be viewed multiple times
- PowerPoint Presentation
- Verbatim Transcript, with Searchability
- Supporting Documentation
- CPD Quiz
- CPD Certificate
Course syllabus
3 lessons
- Video – Ethics for the AI-powered LawyerVideo
- Feedback Survey 2024Survey
- Knowledge QuizTest
Your presenter
Jennie PakulaThe Lawyer's Friend
is Principal of The Lawyer’s Friend, a boutique firm that helps lawyers and legal tech providers navigate their regulatory obligations and serve their clients better.
Jennie worked in legal services regulation from 1994-2023. She has held senior roles in ethics, complaint management, regulation and policy development in NSW and Victoria. Her last role was as Manager, Innovation & Consumer Engagement, where she developed the Victorian Legal Services Board’s approach to innovation and the use of AI in legal services.
Throughout her career, Jennie has seen and deeply understood systemic problems and common issues and has converted these insights into practical guidance for consumers and the profession. She is a passionate advocate for access to justice through the private sector and sees enormous potential in leveraging technology and generative AI. She particularly loves encouraging and helping lawyers in small firms – especially those who want to do things differently.