In the eye of the maelstrom

Artificial intelligence is ushering in a tidal wave of new client enquiries, including those who are curious themselves how we are using AI on their matter, and how they can use AI to support their legal case. Most clients today look their rights up online, do a deep dive on legal research, read caselaw and legislation. Clients approach their lawyer to support the complexity, steer and guide strategy, and see around corners. All the while, AI is bringing in new risks, touching many different aspects of legal practice.

We also have new fiduciary responsibilities to advise our clients of the risks associated with using AI in legal proceedings.

In this moment, guides and toolkits can be helpful to calm and settle the chaos, by going back-to-basics.

Back to ethics basics

It is every lawyers' responsibility to understand how their systems, processes and data are keeping up with current advancements in technology. This leads to practical questions such as: where is my data being stored? How is it being processed? Is it being used for machine learning?

To support legal professionals and law firm managers work through these questions, I have developed two checklists. Both are published in the September issue of the Family Law Education Network's magazine The Brief:

• AI Ethics Guide

• AI Use in Legal Practice Firm Checklist

Read the September issue of The Brief

Join me

Join me on Thursday 12 November at 1.00pm AEDT for the first of a three-part series on AI Fluency for Legal Professionals.

I will be presenting the first session "Perspectives & Fundamentals"

You can register here to find out more and secure your spot