American Bar Association · Best ethics CLE hour
AI & Ethics Unleashed: Navigating the Use of Generative AI in Your Legal Practice
The ABA's one-hour on-demand ethics CLE covering competence, confidentiality, supervision and billing when using generative AI.
Reviewed by Dr. Niklas Schmidt
- Format
- On-demand CLE
- Duration
- 1 hour
- Fee
- Free for ABA members
- Level
- All Levels
- CLE / CPD
- 1 ethics CLE hour
- Certificate
- No
- Next start
- Available on demand
- Region
- United States
What is American Bar Association's AI & Ethics Unleashed: Navigating the Use of Generative AI in Your Legal Practice?
This on-demand ethics program from the American Bar Association equips lawyers with a working understanding of the professional-responsibility issues surrounding generative AI: competence, confidentiality, supervision of staff and tools, transparency with clients and courts, bias mitigation and reasonable fees. It maps directly onto ABA Formal Opinion 512.
Presented by Jeanne M. Huey and Deborah Winokur, the one-hour session qualifies for ethics CLE credit in many jurisdictions and is free for ABA members. It remains accessible until January 2028.
What you will learn
- Model Rules applied to generative AI
- Confidentiality and data-privacy safeguards
- Supervision, transparency and billing
Strengths
- Authoritative source on the ethics rules
- One hour of CLE
- Free for members
Limitations
- Ethics only, no hands-on skills
Who is it best for?
US lawyers who need an ethics CLE hour on AI.
How does it compare with our top pick?
Every review on this site includes the same side-by-side with the AI Lab for Lawyers, our editor's choice for hands-on training, so you can see the trade-offs at a glance.
| Criterion | American Bar Association | ★ AI Lab for Lawyers |
|---|---|---|
| Format | On-demand CLE | Live online cohort |
| Duration | 1 hour | 8 hours (4 × 2 h) + ~2 h homework |
| Fee | Free for ABA members | €200 per seat |
| Hands-on practice | Limited | Every session |
| Taught by a practising lawyer | Faculty / mixed | Yes, a Wolf Theiss partner |
| Verified rating | Not published | 4.8/5 (320) |
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