Navigating ethics in the age of AI — free CLE webinar set for November 7
Florida Bar ethics counsel Jonathan Grabb, YLD President-elect Arti Hirani, and others will present a November 7 free CLE “Attempted Intelligence: Ethical Considerations Surrounding the Use of AI.”
Sponsored by the Student Education and Admission to the Bar Committee (SEABEC), the one-hour Zoom webinar will begin at noon and feature a three-member panel moderated by Tampa attorney and SEABEC Chair Alexis Deveaux, a Gunster associate.
Free registration is available here through the Bar’s Henry Latimer Center for Professionalism.
A veteran Florida Bar staffer, Grabb was named Ethics and Advertising Department director in 2021 when he succeeded Lawyer Regulation Division Director Elizabeth Tarbert.
Last year, Grabb was instrumental in a Board Review Committee on Professional Ethics initiative to develop Ethics Opinion 24-1. Issued January 19, the opinion offered the nation’s first comprehensive guidelines for the ethical use of generative AI in the legal profession.
Among other things, Ethics Opinion 24-1 recommends that a lawyer obtain “the affected client’s informed consent prior to utilizing a third-party generative AI program if the utilization would involve the disclosure of any confidential information.”
Dual licensed in New York and Florida, Hirani is an associate with Meenakshi Hirani in Winter Park. She serves on The Florida Bar Board of Governors, the Disciplinary Procedure Committee, and the Budget Committee, to name a few.
SEABEC Vice Chair Joseph Corsmeier, a Palm Harbor attorney who represents lawyers in Florida Bar disciplinary matters, will join Grabb and Hirani on the panel. A member of the Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, Corsmeier also represents physicians, nurses, accountants, and other licensed professionals before state agencies and boards.
