Use Generative AI in Practice Without Breaching Your Professional Duties
From AI legal research and drafting to e-discovery and client intake, your firm is still responsible for competence, confidentiality and candour to the court. Asenion turns Law Society rules, court AI directives and ISO/IEC 42001 into operational controls your IT, security and risk teams can verify, monitor and evidence.
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5 headline rules and standards for AI in legal practice
Your professional obligations did not change when GenAI arrived. How you meet them did.
Law Society Rules of Professional Conduct
Competence (including technological competence), confidentiality and supervision duties, supported by the Law Society of Ontario's guidance on generative AI.
For AI: Lawyers remain responsible for every AI-assisted output, must protect client confidences in AI tools, and must supervise staff and vendors using AI.
ABA Model Rules and Formal Opinion 512
The ABA's 2024 opinion on generative AI tools, applying the duties of competence, confidentiality, communication, supervision and reasonable fees.
For AI: Understand the tool's risks, get informed client consent before inputting confidential information where required, verify outputs and bill fairly.
Court and Tribunal Rules on AI
Including the Federal Court's notice requiring a declaration of AI-generated content, and Ontario's Rules of Civil Procedure requiring certification that cited authorities are authentic.
For AI: Every citation must be verified. Unverified AI-generated authorities have already led to show-cause orders, cost awards and law society referrals.
ISO/IEC 42001
The certifiable AI management system standard, increasingly referenced in client outside counsel guidelines and legal tech procurement.
For AI: A firm-wide AI policy, inventory, risk and impact assessments and controls that show clients you are in control, not just compliant.
PIPEDA and Québec Law 25
Federal and Québec privacy law governing personal information of clients, employees and opposing parties.
For AI: Privacy impact assessments before new AI tools, limits on cross-border transfers to AI vendors, and notice of decisions made exclusively by automated processing under Law 25.
Where AI meets these rules in legal practice
The AI use cases we see most often at firms and legal tech providers, and the requirements that follow them.
Legal research and drafting
GenAI can invent cases and misstate holdings. Firms need verification workflows, citation checks and records showing a lawyer reviewed the work.
Contract review, due diligence and e-discovery
Tools that read privileged and confidential documents need confidentiality controls, vendor due diligence and validated review processes.
Client intake and client-facing assistants
Chatbots must disclose AI, avoid giving legal advice outside a retainer, check conflicts and protect personal information.
Legal tech vendors selling to firms
Firms and corporate legal departments now ask vendors for AI governance evidence before they buy. AI used in the administration of justice is high-risk under the EU AI Act.
You're Still Responsible: AI Use for Lawyers
A four-session CPD program on generative AI, professional responsibility and the rules that govern its use in Ontario legal practice: the Asenion Responsible AI (RAI) Training Series.
Foundations: Generative AI in Legal Practice
What generative AI does, where it fails, and the frameworks that govern it.
Professional Obligations and Generative AI
Rules of Professional Conduct and Paralegal Rules of Conduct applied to AI use.
Court and Tribunal Rules on AI Use
Federal Court, Ontario Superior Court and Ontario tribunal requirements.
Canadian Case Law: When AI Use Goes Wrong
Court decisions, verification practice and incident response.
Who should attend: lawyers and paralegals licensed by the Law Society of Ontario who use, or are considering, generative AI tools, and the compliance and risk teams responsible for firm-wide AI governance. Sessions 1–3 carry professionalism hours; accreditation application pending with the Law Society of Ontario. Total program run time: 3 hours.
Professionalism: 2 hours 25 minutes
EDI Professionalism: 5 minutes
Hassan Patel, J.D., CIPP/C
Director of Global AI Policy Compliance, Asenion
Live webinar, self-paced on-demand video or in-person
Custom pricing for firm-wide licensing.
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From professional rules to operational control
One set of controls across every AI tool your lawyers use, with evidence your managing partner, general counsel, insurer and Law Society can rely on.
Policy Packs for legal practice
Start from Policy Packs for the LSO Rules of Professional Conduct, ABA Formal Opinion 512, court AI practice directions and ISO/IEC 42001, combined with your firm's own AI use policy.
Verify before lawyers rely on it
Test research and drafting tools for hallucinated citations, privilege and confidentiality leakage, bias and prompt injection, with every result mapped back to a control.
Govern at runtime
Apply context-aware controls to AI assistants and agents in production and keep tamper-resistant evidence of what was generated, which controls applied and who reviewed it.
Make your firm's AI use defensible
In 30 minutes we'll map your AI tools to the rules above, show the controls that apply, and scope CPD training for your lawyers.
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