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Alaska Bar Association Ethics Opinion 2025-1: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law

Alaska Bar Association Ethics Committee · Alaska

last revised 2025-04-23last verified 2026-09-041 versioncountry page →

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Alaska's generative-AI ethics opinion. Lawyers may use generative AI but must understand it, review all output, protect client confidences through closed systems or anonymisation, disclose the basis of any AI charge within a reasonable time of engagement, avoid billing for time not worked, and supervise staff using AI.

Applies to
lawyers, firms
Effective
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Current version
2025-1 · 23 Apr 2025
Last verified
04 Sept 2026
Official text
alaskabar.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-1.pdf

What the document requires

  • A lawyer may use generative AI but must first reasonably understand how it works, its limits and whether it safeguards client confidences
  • All AI output must be carefully reviewed before use or submission (ARPC 1.1, 3.3)
  • Before inputting client confidences the lawyer must review data-retention, data-sharing and self-learning policies; if unprotected, inputs must be anonymised
  • AI costs may be billed only if the client's liability and the basis of computation are disclosed within a reasonable time after the representation begins (ARPC 1.5)
  • Time saved by AI may not be billed as if worked manually; fees must remain reasonable and proportionate
  • Lawyers must comply where a court requires disclosure of generative AI use
  • Supervising lawyers must understand the technology well enough to oversee its use (ARPC 5.1, 5.3)

Version history

VersionDateWhat changedSource
2025-1current2025-04-23Approved by the Ethics Committee 3 April 2025; adopted by the Board of Governors 23 April 2025official

Sources

Cite this record

SafeLegalAI Legal AI Regulation Tracker, "Alaska Bar Association Ethics Opinion 2025-1: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Practice of Law" (Alaska Bar Association Ethics Committee, 2025-1, 2025-04-23), safelegalai.com/regulation/us-state/us-ak-bar-ethics-opinion-2025-1 (accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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