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Recommendation Guide on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers [Avukatlar İçin Yapay Zekâ Kullanımı Tavsiye Rehberi]

Union of Turkish Bar Associations [Türkiye Barolar Birliği], Information and Technology Law Commission

last revised 2026-08-28last verified 2026-09-041 versioncountry page →

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A 44-page principle-based, technology-neutral guide covering lawyers, trainee lawyers and law-office staff. It classifies AI use into risk tiers, sets duties of human oversight, verification, professional secrecy, data minimisation and client information, and adds practical annexes: vendor criteria, model office-policy clauses and client-engagement wording. Advisory, reviewed periodically by TBB.

Applies to
lawyers, firms, all
Effective
See version history
Current version
First edition, 2026 · 28 Aug 2026
Last verified
04 Sept 2026
Official text
d.barobirlik.org.tr/2026/yapayzekatavsiyerehberi.pdf

What the document requires

  • Final responsibility rests with the lawyer: AI output is never a final legal opinion and must not be given to a client, court, authority or third party unchecked.
  • Risk-based classification by data type, impact on the client, proximity to the legal outcome, whether the tool is open or closed, cross-border transfer risk and contractual safeguards: free assistive use, use subject to safeguards and where needed consent, and prohibited uses.
  • No legislation, precedent, citation or fact from an AI tool may be filed with a court, arbitrator, mediator or administrative body without confirmation against official sources; hallucinated citations may be a grave breach of professional care, and errors discovered later must be corrected promptly.
  • Non-anonymised client data, case and enforcement file content, evidence, special-category data, trade secrets and negotiation strategy must not be entered into public or contractually unprotected AI systems.
  • Clients must be informed, and where needed give consent, whenever AI use touches their data, strategy or the outcome of the service; a client may ask that AI not be used on their file.
  • Time saved by AI must not be billed as lawyer time, and AI or general software costs must not be passed on without prior agreement; AI use is not itself a ground to reduce the fee.
  • Profiling, scoring or predicting individual judges' decisions is incompatible with professional practice, as are social scoring, manipulative techniques and emotion recognition.
  • Marketing claims such as guaranteed results, predicting court outcomes or lawyer-free legal advice are barred, as is facilitating non-lawyers or systems that appear to give independent legal advice.
  • Vendor criteria table covering data provenance, data location and cross-border transfer, a contractual undertaking that prompts and documents are not used for model training, security controls, transparency on error rates and a written data-processor agreement.
  • AI literacy modules to be built into trainee education and in-service training, with a TBB-coordinated trainer pool and materials standard.

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
First edition, 2026current2026-08-28First national Turkish bar instrument on AI. Product of the TBB 'AI and Advocacy Workshop', Ankara, 14-15 February 2026. Foreword by TBB President R. Erinç Sağkan; presented by Commission spokesperson Dr Resul Göksoy.official

Sources

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SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Recommendation Guide on the Use of Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers [Avukatlar İçin Yapay Zekâ Kullanımı Tavsiye Rehberi]" (Union of Turkish Bar Associations [Türkiye Barolar Birliği], Information and Technology Law Commission, First edition, 2026, 2026-08-28), safelegalai.com/regulation/other/tr-tbb-ai-guide-lawyers (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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