Learn how law firms should and should not engage with technology, the ethical duties around data privacy and data security, and how/if lawyers can use new technologies like ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs in their practices.

Now more than ever law firms are plugged into technology: cloud-based files, mountains of emails, and maybe even Artificial Intelligence (AI) that can write your brief for you (poorly). New technologies bring new opportunities to do better and more efficient work, but they create new risks and ethical obligations. We already have seen at least two lawyers sanctioned and fined for using AI to prepare briefs citing nonexistent case law. As of July 2023, five class action suits have been filed against law firms arguing that the firms did not have adequate security to protect client data from cyberattacks. This panel will discuss how law firms should and should not engage with technology, the ethical duties around data privacy and data security, and how/if lawyers can use new technologies like ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs in their practices.