Requirements and Context:
General:
– Sources from the internet in the footnotes
Requirements and Context:
General:
– Sources from the internet in the footnotes must include actual links;
– Please use the submitted sample of the actual article with the ready formatting.
– CITE anything that is possible;
– Sources must be about the United States law and lawyers, not India, or anywhere in the world.
– Sources in the order of priority: apart from ABA and state bar Rules, academic articles or research papers (e.g., ResearchGate, SSRN, etc.), law journals, ABA and State Bars publications, Copyright Office or USPTO guidelines or instructions for lawyers, American media (primarily Atlantic, WSJ, NY Times, etc.), news publications.
– Sources must not be of commercial/promotional nature (when a blog site was paid for publication by the company developed the product).
A in Part I (no solution proposals, only describing and analyzing):
– must include the description and examples how the US law firms and in-house legal teams use AI now, whether when AI is a separate product (SaaS or Software) or is a part of product (Contract lifecycle management product), whether proprietary (build in-house) or developed by companies for lawyers; describe the terms of service of these products; how the AI is being trained; with what data sets.
1 in B in Part I:
– Must start with the explanation of what duty of competence is under ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and under US states bar codes (see latest example); include analysis of material differences of US states bar codes rules comparing to the ABA Model Rules – which are more and less strict compared to the ABA duty of confidentiality;
a. Based on how lawyers currently use AI, must analyze and give examples to the extent of what quality it can support the effectiveness and fulfillment of duty of competence of lawyers; what impact using the AI brings to the probability of lawyer’s mistakes (malpractice or negligence) + describe the known cases of when lawyers used it and it produced the low quality or non-existing facts in litigation, briefs, literally anywhere you can find and cite (mandatory to include: fake citations in litigation ).
b. Based on how lawyers currently use AI, must analyze how lawyers as human beings currently control the use of AI in substance of their work, what are the guardrails, what are the risks of that use, what they do mitigate those risks.
c. Based on how lawyers currently use AI, must describe and analyze what is current potential responsibility lawyers may face under the currently-enforced and applicable rules, frameworks (ABA Model Rules, state bar guidelines, civil, administrative, regulatory, and criminal liability) when AI use in legal work causes harm, false statements, etc.
2 in B in Part I:
– Must start with the explanation of what duty of confidentiality is under ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct; under US states bar codes; include analysis of material differences of US states bar codes rules comparing to the ABA Model Rules – which are more and less strict compared to the ABA duty of confidentiality;
– Must explain what is privileged/confidential information within this duty;
a. Must explain how privileged/confidential information and the clients privacy rights intersect and that there is another implied dimension of lawyer’s responsibility for clients privacy rights framework; where the latter is more strict (CA, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, etc.);
b. Analyze what cybersecurity frameworks and practices lawyers use; how effectively they use them and what bottlenecks they face; how easy it is for law firms to get cyber liability insurance; do they train their attorneys about cyber threats (phishing, DDoS, ransomware, etc.); describe and analyze the examples and consequences of cyber security or data breaches occurred in specifically law firms or in-house legal teams.