First Impression: Attorney-Client Privilege and AI Use

By Courtney L. Baird and Ryan S. Crawford

In an issue of first impression, a federal court held that information a defendant input to a consumer generative AI system on his own initiative is not protected by the attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. That holding extended to documents the defendant generated using AI and later shared with counsel.

Read the Alert on the Duane Morris LLP website.

ChatGPT in Class Action Litigation

Daily news reports about ChatGPT are ubiquitous. Can it replace legal tasks undertaken by humans (with law degrees and state bar licenses)? Can lawyers use it to enhance their legal work? Quite naturally, this raises the issue of whether ChatGPT will make its way into class action litigation – where the stakes are enormous, and the workloads of lawyers involved in those cases are enormous.

To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorney Brandon Spurlock, please visit the Duane Morris Class Action Defense Blog.

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