Technology,
Law Practice
Aug. 11, 2021
Attorney duty to inform clients about AI use in their practice
Lawyers are legally bound by existing rules that require various stringent duties to communicate with their clients. A kerfuffle is arising that if a lawyer makes use of AI in their legal efforts, including the activities of their law practice, they should have an obligated duty to inform their clients and obtain informed consent. This is being hotly debated.
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
Trying to tell attorneys what they should or should not do is fraught with peril.
Any such commandments had better be ready for rigorous pushback and in-depth oppositional argumentation. After all, lawyers are adept at the art and science of making copious arguments. You can readily bet that anytime a new rule is fostered upon attorneys and their vaunted efforts to practice law, it had better be completely thought through and have all its d...
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