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Guide pratique — Utilisation des systèmes d'intelligence artificielle générative

Conseil national des barreaux (National Bar Council), France

last revised 2024-09-01last verified 2026-09-041 versioncountry page →

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A 42-page practical guide published by the CNB's AI working group in September 2024 to help French lawyers understand and adopt generative AI. It explains how generative AI is built, sets out use cases and risks, and gives guidance on formulating prompts, evaluating and improving generated output, and training. It is accompanied by a tool-selection grid.

Applies to
lawyers, firms
Effective
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Current version
1ère édition · 01 Sept 2024
Last verified
04 Sept 2026
Official text
cnb.avocat.fr/medias/cnb-guidepratique-utilisation-systemes-iag-2024-6…

What the document requires

  • Uses the Article 3(1) definition of an AI system from Regulation (EU) 2024/1689.
  • Sets out use cases across correspondence, drafting, contracts, summarising and research, and the associated risks.
  • Gives practical method for prompting and for evaluating, improving and using generated output.
  • Accompanied by a selection grid scoring tools on data sovereignty, security, functionality, ethical compliance and cost.
  • Points lawyers to CNB training on generative AI.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
1ère éditioncurrent2024-09-01First edition, produced by the CNB's Groupe de travail Intelligence Artificielle. Month-only date: the source gives the month, so the 1st is recorded as the date.official

Sources

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SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Guide pratique — Utilisation des systèmes d'intelligence artificielle générative" (Conseil national des barreaux (National Bar Council), France, 1ère édition, 2024-09-01), safelegalai.com/regulation/other/fr-cnb-guide-pratique-ia-generative (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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