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CCBE Technical guide on the use of AI tools and models by lawyers (Edition 2026)

Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE)

last revised 2026-03-27last verified 2026-09-041 versioncountry page →

GuidanceIn forceCompetenceConfidentialityPermissive

map categories:Vendor due diligenceClient data in AI toolsTechnological competenceBar guidance on generative AI

Companion to the CCBE generative-AI guide and cloud-computing guidelines. It explains deployment options - on-premises, self-hosted colocation, bring-your-own-model and fully managed SaaS - and their confidentiality and data-residency implications, model capability, size, speed and context-length considerations, which models can run locally, and a technical glossary grounding the duty to understand the tools used.

Applies to
lawyers, firms
Effective
27 Mar 2026
Current version
Edition 2026 · 27 Mar 2026
Last verified
04 Sept 2026
Official text
www.ccbe.eu/fileadmin/speciality_distribution/public/documents/IT_LAW/…

What the document requires

  • Lawyers have a professional duty to understand the essential functioning of the technologies they use.
  • Compares hosting architectures by confidentiality and control.
  • Technical criteria for selecting and evaluating AI tools, with no product endorsements.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
Edition 2026current2026-03-27First version recorded.official

Sources

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SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "CCBE Technical guide on the use of AI tools and models by lawyers (Edition 2026)" (Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE), Edition 2026, 2026-03-27), safelegalai.com/regulation/eu/ccbe-technical-guide-ai-tools-lawyers (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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