KY 56th Judicial Circuit (Caldwell, Livingston, Lyon and Trigg Counties): Kentucky 56th J…
Court · Kentucky Circuit Courts, 56th Judicial Circuit (Caldwell, Livingston, Lyon, and Trigg Counties)
Verified September 30, 2026
- Citation
- Kentucky 56th Judicial Circuit (Caldwell, Livingston, Lyon, and Trigg Counties), Local Rule 12: Artificial Intelligence
- Order date
- December 2, 2025
Summary
Lawyers and pro se litigants who use generative AI services 'to prepare documents that the parties file in the record in this case are cautioned that generative AI technologies sometimes may produce factually or legally inaccurate content.'
What does the order require?
- Lawyers and pro se litigants who use generative AI services 'to prepare documents that the parties file in the record in this case are cautioned that generative AI technologies sometimes may produce factually or legally inaccurate content.'
- 'The Court does not prohibit the use of AI.'
- To comply with 'Rule 11 of the Rules of Civil Procedure and other applicable legal and ethical standards, attorneys and pro se litigants must review and verify computer-generated content to ensure that is [sic] accurate and complies with all such governing standards.'
- The rule requires no disclosure or certification of AI use.
Practice areas: state civil, state criminal, state family
What the rule requires
The 56th Judicial Circuit’s local rules, as amended effective January 1, 2026, include an artificial intelligence rule for court submissions. It does three things:
- Cautions filers. Lawyers and pro se litigants who use tools like “ChatGPT, Google Bard, Bing AI Chat, or other generative artificial intelligence services” to prepare filed documents are cautioned that generative AI “sometimes may produce factually or legally inaccurate content.”
- Permits use. “The Court does not prohibit the use of AI.”
- Requires verification. To comply “with Rule 11 of the Rules of Civil Procedure and other applicable legal and ethical standards, attorneys and pro se litigants must review and verify computer-generated content to ensure that is [sic] accurate and complies with all such governing standards.”
The rule requires no disclosure of AI use and no certification. It states no sanction of its own; its verification duty is framed by reference to Rule 11 and “other applicable legal and ethical standards.”
Context
This is one of three AI provisions located in the Kentucky circuit court local rules published on the Kentucky Court of Justice’s rules-of-practice page as of September 2026, alongside the 5th Judicial Circuit Family Court’s Rule 203(E) and Campbell Family Court Division III’s Rule 11, both of which require a certification. Kentucky has no statewide AI rule for court filings. Kentucky Bar Association Ethics Opinion E-457 separately answers yes to whether a lawyer using AI must “review all submissions to the Court that utilized Generative AI to confirm the accuracy of the content of those filings.” See the Kentucky tracker page.
Primary source
Rules of Practice of the 56th Judicial Circuit, with the Supreme Court of Kentucky’s approving order entered December 2, 2025 (Rule 12 at printed page 19), published by the Kentucky Court of Justice.