Protecting Attorney-Client Privilege and Work Product in a Generative AI World Checklist

Summary

This checklist provides guidance for protecting attorney-client privilege and work product in the environment of generative artificial intelligence (AI). This checklist specifically gives an overview of AI uses in the law today, offers a brief summary of the attorney-client privilege and the work product doctrine protections, raises attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine issues regarding the use of generative AI, and offers guidance for safeguarding these protections when using generative AI tools.