CONFERENCE REPORT: Productivity to Pitfalls—AI Brings Both

For lawyers, generative artificial intelligence is no longer a future-facing curiosity. It is already embedded in present-day research products, drafting tools, transcription platforms, and litigation workflows.

At the American Bar Association’s Fifty First National Conference on Professional Responsibility in Los Angeles, two separate panels discussed the current state of AI in the legal profession and provided some context for the risks and pitfalls that attorneys using AI should look out for.

In a panel entitled “Beyond the Hype: Generative AI, Lawyer Competence, and Professional Risk”, presenter Abby Stylianou, associate professor of Computer Science at Saint Louis University, encouraged thinking about ...