Technology,
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Sep. 3, 2026
Improved tools but lagging regulations
AI tools have changed dramatically since 2023, but the questions, risks and ethical considerations largely have not. Whatever the technology can do, the lawyer remains responsible for the result.
In October 2023, I presented a CLE on ChatGPT and what it could do for the legal community. It could access the knowledge of the world (or rather, the internet) and generate text; at the time, that was basically it. One attorney in the audience wanted to convince his wife he should be allowed to put Halloween decorations on his roof, so we generated the letter from scratch, then rewrote it as Shakespeare, and again as Tupac. Those capabilities were otherworldly then, but ...
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