Ethics

Practical Overview of Lawyers’ Use of AI and Billing

Increasingly, consumer bankruptcy lawyers will be using AI in the future. It therefore is incumbent upon them to develop procedures and policies for its use and in billing for such services. Doing so will be a combination of art and science controlled by both ethical and practical considerations. Because its use is in an embryotic phase, standards are still being developed, and the area is plagued by a dearth of both case law and statutory guidelines. Practitioners also have to be cognizant that AI is a rapidly and ever-changing tool characterized by advances made on a constant basis.

Artificial Intelligence

how this technology may aid in various aspect of the bankruptcy practice (consumer, business, sales, cases with large number of claims, etc.) and ethical concerns. Other Denise Barnett Denise_Barnett@tnwb.uscourts.gov United States Bankruptcy Judge Western District of Tennessee (Memphis)

With Reservations, a Chapter 11 Debtor with No Financial Distress Avoids Dismissal

Bankruptcy Judge Whitley says that a no-opt-out plan for a solvent debtor might violate creditors’ due process and jury trial rights.

Duty of the Bar to Protect Judges

I have been thinking about this issue since Purdue and also what I saw in LTL in terms of sanctionable conduct with letters and pleadings from lawyers who should know better. I think it is part of a general decline in ethics and professionalism that includes less candor with, and more lying to, courts, including everything from misciting authority to false statements of fact. Open disrespect seems at a historic level. I think it is time for a high level panel/program on the subject. [FROM BOB KEACH] Other Suggested Speakers Amy Quackenboss aquackenboss@abi.org ABI

Benchnotes February 2024

Feb 2024

Ethics and Disclosure Requirements

Disclosure requirements under the professional rules of conduct and the Bankruptcy Code. Business Ericka Johnson ejohnson@bayardlaw.com Bayard, P.A.