Are you using AI to draft briefs, analyze case law, or communicate with clients? Depending on which plan you're on, you may already be in violation of your ethical obligations, and most lawyers have no idea. AI tools have enormous potential to transform legal practice, but they carry drastically different levels of appropriateness depending on the type of work involved. Not all AI subscriptions are created equal: different plans at the same provider can have radically different terms governing data training, retention, and access, and choosing the wrong tier for the wrong task can implicate duties of confidentiality, competence, and supervision.

This CLE program introduces an ethics framework for stratifying the different layers of law firm practice by their level of ethical exposure, then uses that framework to evaluate which AI tools and subscription tiers are appropriate for each layer, with a provider-by-provider analysis covering Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. Attendees will leave with a practical method for matching AI tools to the ethical requirements of their actual work.