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A Short & Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Legal Ethics
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Generative artificial intelligence is influencing nearly every aspect of our lives on a daily basis, creating both extraordinary opportunities and complex challenges. From a professional perspective, the way that we’ve conducted business is transforming and will be forever changed. No industry appears to be able to escape the influence of GenAI, certainly not the legal industry, which is poised for seismic disruption of the status quo. As law firms rapidly adopt GenAI tools for everything from document review to legal research and drafting, lawyers must understand how their fundamental professional obligations apply to this powerful new technology. The question is no longer whether GenAI will be part of legal practice, but rather how lawyers can deploy it responsibly while meeting their ethical duties to clients and to the profession.
The Short and Happy Guide to Artificial Intelligence and Legal Ethics helps students and practicing lawyers understand how the professional rules of conduct apply when lawyers use artificial intelligence. It explains the ethical standards that attorneys must meet when deploying GenAI tools into the practice of law, including protecting client confidentiality, maintaining competence with new technology, avoiding conflicts of interest, being transparent about GenAI usage, and ensuring that fees remain reasonable. Written in an accessible, straightforward style, the guide translates complex ethical obligations into practical guidance for the next generation of lawyers and is a quick reference for understanding how professional rules adapt to today's technology.
Imprint: West Academic Publishing
Series: Short & Happy Guides
Publication Date: 04/20/2026
Related Subject(s): Professional Resp/Ethics
Nancy B. Rapoport, UNLV School of Law
Joseph R. Tiano, Jr.
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