AI Policies and Compliance for Law Firms

Alabama has no formal ethics opinion on AI and has not adopted ABA Model Rule 1.1 Comment 8 on technology competence. Ex...

Alaska Bar Association Ethics Opinion 2025-1 addresses competence, confidentiality, billing, supervision, and court-disc...

Arizona has no formal AEAC ethics opinion on AI but has layered guidance: State Bar practice guidance, AISC "Ethical Bes...

Arkansas has no standalone formal ethics opinion on AI but has acted through court orders and rule amendments. Administr...

The State Bar of California issued practical guidance covering competence, confidentiality, supervision, billing, and ca...

Colorado has the highest-profile attorney discipline case on AI (People v. Crabill, 90-day suspension, November 2023), a...

Connecticut has no formal or informal bar ethics opinion on attorney AI use. The CBA Generative AI Committee and the Jud...

Delaware has no formal ethics opinion on AI but has been unusually active through its court infrastructure: the Delaware...

DC has a formal ethics opinion (Opinion 388, April 2024) and binding RPC amendments (Order M284-24, effective April 7, 2...

Florida Bar Ethics Opinion 24-1 requires attorneys to disclose AI use when it affects billing, maintain AI governance po...

Georgia has no formal ethics opinion on AI and has not yet formally adopted the ABA technology competence comment to Rul...

Hawaii has no formal bar ethics opinion on attorney AI use and no binding state court rules requiring AI disclosure. The...

Idaho has no formal bar ethics opinion on attorney AI use as of 2026-04-23. The Idaho Supreme Court established an AI Go...

Illinois has taken an administrative approach: the Illinois Supreme Court issued a formal AI Policy (effective January 1...

Indiana has no formal state bar AI ethics opinion. The Indiana Supreme Court formed an AI Governance Committee in fall 2...

Iowa has no formal ISBA ethics opinion on AI and no Iowa Supreme Court AI rule. The ISBA Board established a new AI Comm...

Kansas has no formal KBA ethics opinion on AI but the Kansas Supreme Court formed a 21-member Ad Hoc AI Committee in Feb...

Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Opinion E-457 (March 2024) takes one of the strongest competence positions of any state ...

Louisiana has no formal LSBA AI ethics opinion but produced the most consequential AI evidence legislation in the countr...

Maine has no formal or informal bar ethics opinion on attorney AI use, and neither the Maine Supreme Judicial Court nor ...

Maryland has an MSBA AI & Legal Technology Task Force advisory (May 2025), the first published Maryland appellate opinio...

Massachusetts has two BBO educational articles (no formal opinion numbers), SJC Interim Guidelines for court personnel (...

Michigan has detailed non-binding AI FAQs (updated November 2024 / February 2025), a judicial ethics opinion on AI compe...

Minnesota has an MSBA AI Working Group report (adopted June/July 2024) proposing an AI Sandbox for access-to-justice LLM...

Mississippi has Ethics Opinion No. 267 (November 14, 2024) covering competence, confidentiality, supervision, billing, a...

Missouri has Informal Opinion 2024-11 (April 25, 2024) from the Office of Legal Ethics Counsel and Advisory Committee of...

Montana has no formal bar ethics opinion or statewide court rule on attorney AI use. Two of Montana's 22 judicial distri...

Nebraska has no formal AI ethics opinion, but the Nebraska Supreme Court suspended an Omaha attorney in April 2026 over ...

Nevada has no formal AI ethics opinion and no binding statewide court rule. The State Bar of Nevada has published educat...

New Hampshire has no formal numbered ethics opinion on AI, but the NH Bar Association Ethics Committee has published thr...

New Jersey has the most active state Supreme Court AI governance program in the country, with three Supreme Court docume...

The State Bar of New Mexico Ethics Advisory Committee issued Formal Ethics Advisory Opinion 2024-004 in September 2024 p...

New York has the most layered AI ethics landscape of any state. NYC Bar Formal Opinions 2024-5 (generative AI) and 2025-...

The State Bar Association of North Dakota has issued no formal ethics opinion or task force report on attorney AI use as...

Ohio has no formal ethics opinion on AI from the Board of Professional Conduct. The operative guidance comes from OBLIC ...

Oklahoma has no formal AI ethics opinion from the OBA. Magistrate Judge Jason Robertson (E.D. Okla.) imposed $6,000 in p...

OSB Formal Opinion 2025-205 establishes a comprehensive framework covering competence, confidentiality, billing, supervi...

Pennsylvania has a joint formal advisory opinion (Joint Formal Opinion 2024-200, May 2024), a binding Pennsylvania Supre...

Rhode Island has no formal bar ethics opinion on AI. The Rhode Island Supreme Court established a Committee on Artificia...

South Carolina has no formal bar ethics opinion on AI. The primary binding development is the South Carolina Supreme Cou...

South Dakota has issued no formal ethics opinion, no informal bar guidance document, no court standing orders, and no pe...

Tennessee has no formal ethics opinion from the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (TBPR) and no binding AI ...

Texas has formal Ethics Opinion 705 (Feb 2025), a comprehensive TRAIL task force report, and the most developed federal ...

Utah has no formal ethics opinion but has binding statutory and case law overlays. Utah enacted the first US state gener...

Vermont has no formal ethics opinion on AI, no attorney-specific AI legislation, and no court standing orders requiring ...

Virginia has informal VSB guidance (Aug 2024) plus binding Legal Ethics Opinion 1901 on fees, approved by the Supreme Co...

Washington has one formal advisory opinion (WSBA AO 202505, November 2025) mapping seven core professional duties to AI ...

West Virginia's L.E.O. 24-01 (June 2024) is among the most detailed state AI ethics opinions in the country and is notab...

Wisconsin has issued no formal ethics opinion on AI and no binding judicial or administrative AI policy. Two concrete Wi...

Wyoming has no formal bar ethics opinion, no AI task force, and no statewide AI standing order. Bar Counsel Mark Gifford...

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