Arkansas (statewide): In re Adoption of Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 2…
Per curiam · Supreme Court of Arkansas
Verified October 1, 2026
- Citation
- In re Adoption of Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 25. Artificial Intelligence, 2025 Ark. 220 (per curiam)
- Order date
- December 11, 2025
Status and scope
No AI-specific filing obligation: in force, but it imposes no disclosure, verification, or use restriction on attorney filings beyond existing rules. It provides: Section 1 (Awareness): 'Everyone participating in the court system must be mindful of the following when entering client or court data into any electronic system that generates responses or uses generative artificial intelligence (GAI)'.
What the instrument provides
- Section 1 (Awareness): 'Everyone participating in the court system must be mindful of the following when entering client or court data into any electronic system that generates responses or uses generative artificial intelligence (GAI)'.
- Section 1(b): 'Anyone who enters confidential or sealed information into a GAI should determine whether the system is retaining and using the confidential or sealed data.'
- Section 1(c): anyone who 'either intentionally or inadvertently discloses confidential or sealed information related to a client or case may be violating established rules', including Administrative Order No. 19, the Arkansas Code, the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct, the Arkansas Code of Judicial Conduct, and the applicable Rules of Procedure.
- Section 2 (Prohibition) applies only to Administrative Office of the Courts staff, all clerks of the courts and their staff, and anyone else with access to internal CourtConnect: they are 'prohibited from intentionally exposing our state courts' internal data to a GAI that is using a public LLM.'
- No disclosure of AI use in filings and no verification of AI output is required.
Practice areas: state civil, state criminal, state family, state probate, statewide judicial administration
What the order provides
The Supreme Court of Arkansas adopted Administrative Order No. 25, Artificial Intelligence, by per curiam opinion in 2025 Ark. 220 (Dec. 11, 2025), effective immediately. It addresses generative AI and confidential court data in two parts.
Section 1, “Awareness,” applies to “[e]veryone participating in the court system” who enters client or court data “into any electronic system that generates responses or uses generative artificial intelligence (GAI).” It states that certain generative AI tools retain submitted data and use it to keep building their large language models, that anyone who enters confidential or sealed information into such a tool “should determine whether the system is retaining and using the confidential or sealed data,” and that anyone who discloses confidential or sealed information about a client or case, intentionally or inadvertently, “may be violating established rules.” The examples it lists include Administrative Order No. 19, the Arkansas Code, the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct, the Arkansas Code of Judicial Conduct, and the applicable Rules of Procedure.
Section 2, “Prohibition,” applies only to Administrative Office of the Courts staff, the clerks of the district, circuit, and appellate courts and their staff, and anyone else with access to internal CourtConnect. They are prohibited from intentionally exposing the state courts’ internal data to a generative AI tool using a public large language model, subject to research and analysis projects approved by the Supreme Court’s Automation Committee.
The order requires no disclosure of AI use in filings and no certification.
How it was adopted
The Supreme Court published the proposed order for comment on June 5, 2025 (2025 Ark. 117), with comments due August 1, 2025. The adopting opinion states that the comment period closed without substantive comments.
Related authority
The same day, in In re Amendments to the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct, 2025 Ark. 221 (Dec. 11, 2025) (per curiam), the Supreme Court amended the Preamble and Rule 5.3 of the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct to address AI. See the Arkansas state page.
Primary sources
How this order changed
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- proposedThe Supreme Court published proposed Administrative Order No. 25 for comment (In re Creation of Ark. Sup. Ct. Admin. Order No. 25, 2025 Ark. 117), with comments due August 1, 2025. source
- activeThe Supreme Court adopted Administrative Order No. 25 by per curiam opinion, effective immediately; the comment period had closed without substantive comments. source