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Nov. 24, 2025

How lawyers can navigate AI and cybersecurity

As generative AI and digital systems reshape legal practice--particularly in bankruptcy courts--they raise pressing cybersecurity risks and compel a broader reevaluation of attorneys' professional and ethical obligations.

Selwyn D. Whitehead

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The Law Offices of Selwyn D. Whitehead

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How lawyers can navigate AI and cybersecurity
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The legal profession is undergoing a significant transformation with the integration of advanced technologies into the practice of law. Particularly generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), an advanced form of AI capable of using sophisticated predictive tools to create new content, as opposed to historic AI, using algorithms to find already existing content. This GenAI is then facilitated by the use of digital transmission media, system access and security protocols and the case manage...

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