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Technology

Nov. 19, 2024

Do managerial and supervisory lawyers have an ethical duty to supervise AI output?

Recent legal surveys show AI's growing use in drafting legal documents and communications, while also raising ethical concerns about its reliability and potential for misuse.

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The Rules of Professional Conduct require that managerial and supervisory attorneys take reasonable steps to ensure that a law firm and its employees comply with the Rules of Professional Conduct and the State Bar Act.

California Rule of Professional Conduct 5.1 provides, in relevant part:

(a) A lawyer who individually or together with other lawyers possesses managerial authority in a law firm, shall make reasonab...

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