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Is AI training mandatory for lawyers? What the EU literacy duty and bar rules require
No reviewed country sets AI training hours for lawyers. The EU AI Act's Article 4 literacy duty binds firms and was rewritten on 27 July 2026.
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Plain-English briefings on what a rule says and who needs to care.
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No reviewed country sets AI training hours for lawyers. The EU AI Act's Article 4 literacy duty binds firms and was rewritten on 27 July 2026.
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Italy legislates a duty to inform, the Netherlands asks for consent, Belgium and Germany say there is no duty: 76 reviewed country answers on telling clients.
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The regulation map records 76 reviewed country answers on client data in AI tools: binding rules, guidance, proposals and gaps.
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The regulation map records 39 country answers on judicial AI use: binding rules, guidance, proposals and one case-law answer.
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Across 130 country records, 50 have a binding, guidance, proposed or case-law answer on verification of AI output.
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The EU AI Act can reach a UK firm when its AI output is used in the EU. What the extraterritorial scope, the AI-literacy duty, and the deferred deadlines mean.
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Plain-English definitions courts use when sanctioning AI-fabricated citations: hallucination, Hamid jurisdiction, wasted costs, Rule 11, and more.
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New South Wales runs the strictest AI court rule in the common-law world: affidavits must declare AI was NOT used. Here is what the practice note requires.
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Version-by-version histories of official guidance, with the changes surfaced first.
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What changed when the State Bar of California replaced its November 2023 generative-AI guidance with the 2026 revision covering agentic AI.
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Australian regulator guidance on generative AI — Queensland's Guidance Statement 37, the three-regulator joint statement, and the NSW solicitor's guide.
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The version record of Canadian law-society generative-AI guidance — LSBC (2023), the LSO white paper (2024), Alberta's Rules of Engagement, and the CBA toolkit.
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The Law Society of Ireland's GenAI guidelines, the Judicial Council's guidelines for judges, and the Court of Appeal's five principles — dated and sourced.
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Singapore's legal AI guidance, dated and sourced: the Supreme Court's 2024 circular, the Ministry of Law's 2026 sector guide, and the Law Society advisory.
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AI guidance in India (Kerala), Brazil (CNJ Res. 615), Hong Kong, and the Gulf (QFC) — judicial and regulator documents beyond the big jurisdictions.
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How the Courts and Tribunals Judiciary's AI guidance for judges in England and Wales changed across three versions: Dec 2023, April 2025, and 31 October 2025.
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The version record of the SRA, Bar Council, and Law Society guidance on generative AI — what each says now, and when it changed.
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Issue archive for the weekly roundup of incidents, regulator moves and tool-safety signals.
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22 September to 5 October: a California Supreme Court referral, SB 574 enacted, two English court guides on AI, and Harvey named in a New York filing.
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The 16 September update: Florida's show-cause order, Ireland's commencement, California's agentic-AI guidance, US court rules and vendor availability claims.
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Issue 2: the SDT's first AI-citation case, 476 US court rows on record, California SB 574 with the Governor, Germany, Poland and Ireland AI Act laws.
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Issue 1: 50 incidents added, the SRA's misuse-of-AI warning notice, Ireland's Practice Direction HC 142, deferred EU high-risk duties, 128 tools on record.
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