Clients Using AI: Avoiding Pitfalls 2026

  • Webcast seminar
  • Attorney Regulation
  • New Lawyer
Up to 1.5 Credit Hours
View schedule and faculty
Clients Using AI: Avoiding Pitfalls 2026

Clients are using AI. That makes it your conversation to have.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now part of how many clients approach their own matters, and a lawyer has a duty to understand and consult with clients about that use and the impact it can have in the courtroom. Clients Using AI: Avoiding Pitfalls discusses those duties under Supreme Court Rule (SCR) 20:1.2 and SCR 20:1.4, and how a client's use of AI might affect evidentiary decisions in their case. Recent case law has reached conflicting results, explore where it currently stands and tools you will need to best advise your clients.

12:00 pm

  • A lawyer’s duty to consult and communicate with clients under SCR 20:1.2 and SCR 20:1.4
  • Confidentiality (SCR 20:1.6) v. privilege and work product doctrine
  • Conflicting results in recent caselaw
1:15 pm
Program Concludes

Program Chairs and Presenters

Dean R. Dietrich
Weld Riley S.C. · Wausau
Sarah E. Peterson
State Bar of Wisconsin · Madison
Timothy J. Pierce
State Bar of Wisconsin · Madison

Sponsored by

Interested in sponsoring this program? Find out more.

  • Fulfill your duty to consult and communicate with clients under SCR 20:1.2 and SCR 20:1.4 as AI use becomes routine
  • Distinguish the duty of confidentiality under SCR 20:1.6 from the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine
  • Get current on recent case law and conflicting results
  • All lawyers
  • Paralegals
  • Legal administrators
  • Law office staff

Book Bonus! Wisconsin Ethics Opinions

Save 25% on Wisconsin Ethics Opinions.* It’s the indispensable authority on how insurance policies are written, interpreted, and applied in Wisconsin. Use discount code CA4027 when you order online or by calling (800) 728-7788.

*Discount applies to both print and digital Books Unbound® editions of this title and cannot be applied to previous purchases. Offer valid through 12/31/27. For Books Unbound users, discount may be applied to purchase of individual Books Unbound title only and may not be used on the purchase of libraries. Discount cannot be combined with any other offers.