Name: AI and Ethics for Lawyers: Practical Guidance for Responsible Use
Uploaded: 2026-05-15T10:00:00-07:00
Description: Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming legal practice, with lawyers integrating these tools into research, drafting, and client service workflows. At the same time, regulators and courts are defining the ethical boundaries of their use. This program provides practical guidance to help lawyers use AI responsibly while meeting their professional obligations.

Justia Connect Webinars AI and Ethics for Lawyers: Practical Guidance for Responsible Use

AI and Ethics for Lawyers: Practical Guidance for Responsible Use

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming legal practice, with lawyers integrating these tools into research, drafting, and client service workflows. At the same time, regulators and courts are defining the ethical boundaries of their use. This program provides practical guidance to help lawyers use AI responsibly while meeting their professional obligations.

Topics covered include:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Legal Ethics Legal Tech

Agenda:

The Current State of AI in Legal Practice

Overview of how generative AI is being used by lawyers today, including use cases in legal research, drafting, contract review, client communications, and law practice management.

Regulatory Landscape: What Bars and Courts Are Doing

Overview of how state bar associations, courts, and regulators are responding to AI in legal practice.
Discussion of recent ethics opinions, emerging guidance, court rules, and enforcement trends, with a focus on how expectations for lawyers are evolving.

Competence and the Duty to Understand Technology

Examination of Model Rule 1.1 and the growing expectation that lawyers understand the benefits and risks of AI tools.
Practical guidance on what “competence” looks like in an AI-enabled practice.

Confidentiality, Privilege, and Vendor Risk

Analysis of Model Rule 1.6 and its intersection with attorney-client privilege in the context of AI tools.
Discussion of data handling, risks of waiver when using third-party platforms, and the implications of cases such as Heppner addressing AI use and confidentiality.
Includes practical guidance on vendor due diligence (e.g., SOC 2, data retention policies, contractual safeguards) and protecting privileged communications.

Accuracy, Hallucinations, and the Duty of Candor

Exploration of the risks of AI-generated inaccuracies and fabricated citations.
Discussion of verification protocols, supervision obligations under Rules 5.1 and 5.3, and recent court decisions sanctioning lawyers for improper AI use.
Practical frameworks for minimizing risk in research and drafting workflows.

Duration of this webinar: 60 minutes

Originally broadcast: May 15, 2026 10:00 AM PT

Recording Available Soon

Speaker

Greg Siskind Founding Partner
Siskind Susser, PC

Greg Siskind is a founding partner of Siskind Susser and has been practicing immigration law since 1990. He is also a co-founder of AI software company Visalaw Ventures. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from the University of Chicago. Read More ›

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) Credits

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Alabama CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Ethics

Alaska CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Ethics

California CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Technology in the Practice of Law

Delaware CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Enhanced Ethics

Hawaii CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Ethics

Illinois CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Professional Responsibility - Ethics / Civility / Professionalism / Sexual Harassment Prevention

Nebraska CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Professional Responsibility

New Jersey CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.20 Ethics/Professionalism

North Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Technology Training

Ohio CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Attorney Professional Conduct

Pennsylvania CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure

South Carolina CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Difficulty: All Levels

Texas CLE

Status: Pending

Format: On-Demand

Credits: TBD

Utah CLE

Status: Approved

Format: On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Ethics

Vermont CLE

Status: Approved

Format: Live (Virtual), On-Demand

Credits: 1.00 Ethics

This presentation is approved for one hour of Ethics CLE credit in Alabama, one hour of Ethics CLE credit in Alaska, one hour of Technology in the Practice of Law CLE credit in California, one hour of Enhanced Ethics CLE credit in Delaware, one hour of Ethics CLE credit in Hawaii, one hour of Professional Responsibility - Ethics / Civility / Professionalism / Sexual Harassment Prevention CLE credit in Illinois, one hour of Professional Responsibility CLE credit in Nebraska, one hour of Technology Training CLE credit in North Carolina, one hour of Attorney Professional Conduct CLE credit in Ohio, one hour of Substantive Law, Practice, and Procedure CLE credit in Pennsylvania, one hour of Legal Ethics/Professional Responsibility CLE credit in South Carolina (all levels), one hour of Ethics CLE credit in Utah, and one hour of Ethics CLE credit in Vermont. This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.20 hours of total CLE credit. Of these, 1.20 qualify as total hours of credit for Ethics/Professionalism. An application for accreditation of this activity has been submitted to the MCLE Committee of the State Bar of Texas and is pending.

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