Diverging Paths: The Perils of Becoming an AI Lawyer
Category: On Demand
Member Price: $184
Non-Member Price: $230
Areas of Law: Ethics
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 2.4 hours of total CLE credit, including 2.4 in Ethics (Full Credits Available: NJ Ethics: 2.4). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Ethics Non-Transitional: 2.0 |
| PA CLE: | PA Ethics Credit: 2.0
New: No PACLE fee is required for this program. To earn PA CLE credits, a valid PA Bar ID number must be entered into the CLE form provided after attending the program. |
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Carol Johnston, Esq.
- Supreme Court Clerk’s OfficeNew Jersey Supreme Court Clerk’s Office in Trenton, New Jersey, joined the Administrative Office of the Courts in 2006 and serves as Secretary to the Advisory Committee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Attorney Advertising and the Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law. She also answers the attorney ethics research assistance hotline.
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nMs. Johnston formerly served as a Deputy Attorney General with the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, Division of Law, for 15 years. She was Ethics Officer for the Department of Law and Public Safety and a member of the Prosecutor’s Code of Ethics Committee.
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nMs. Johnston has lectured for ICLE, the American Law Institute-American Bar Association (ALI-ABA), the New Jersey State Bar Association, the New Jersey Judiciary, the National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys, and several county bar associations and American Inns of Court. In 2017 she was the recipient of ICLE’s Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Continuing Legal Education.
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nMs. Johnston is a graduate of Hamilton College and New York Law School. She clerked for Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz. - Chad M. Moore, Esq.
- Member, New Jersey Supreme Court Committee of AI in the Courts
Hoagland, Longo, Moran, Dunst & Doukas, LLP, New Brunswick and Hammonton - Glenn R. Reiser, Esq.
- Shapiro, Croland, Reiser, Apfel, & Di Iorio, LLP, Hackensack
Fun Fact: The seminar title for this program was created by ChatGPT
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is fraught with perils for attorneys. In fact, in its recently published Preliminary Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence by New Jersey Lawyers, the New Jersey Supreme Court emphasized the ethical impact of AI and pointed out the following danger zones to lawyers who may be integrating AI into their practices:
- Honesty, candor and communication
- Confidentiality
- Prevention of misconduct, including discrimination
- Oversight, including supervision of non-attorney assistants
- Fees
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Join ethics attorneys Glenn Reiser and Chad Moore along with Ethics Hotline guru Carol Johnston in this fast-moving two-hour webinar as they explain AI, discuss its potential and limitations for lawyers and analyze the ethical challenges that can result from its use. Learn about the obligations that you assume when using AI, and how to tweak your practice to accommodate it.