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AI & Law: AI Lawyer-Client Conflict Of Interest
by Dr. Lance B. Eliot
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Key briefing points about this article:
- Lawyers are to avoid conflicts of interest in the lawyer-client relationship
- It is hard to imagine one attorney vigorously representing two opposing clients
- The future of the law includes the infusion of AI-based legal reasoning systems
- We will ultimately have AI that can be the lawyer in the lawyer-client relationship
- Consider whether there are potential conflicts of interest by that AI representation
Introduction
We take at relatively face value that a lawyer representing a client is not simultaneously representing a client on the opposing side of the case at hand. This would seem like a rather obvious conflict of interest.
The attorney would ostensibly be arguing against their own stated position, each of which are presumably diametrically opposed on some core elements of the case. Almost as though a cartoonish…
