State AI Task Force Information

The Center for Innovation and Center for Bar Leadership are working to gather information about all State Bar Associations AI Task Forces. If you have additional information for your state please connect with us so we can add your work to the list.

State: California

• Name of Task Force: The State’s Bar Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct
• Website: N/A
• Deliverables: N/A
• Resources
  • Practical Guidance for the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in the Practice of Law
• Contact Information:
  • Executive Director: Leah Wilson; [email protected]; (415) 538-2257

State: Florida

• Name of Task Force: Special Committee on AI Tools & Resources
• Website
• Deliverables: N/A
• Resources
  • Proposed advisory Opinion on Lawyers’ and Law Firms’ Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence – The Florida Bar
  • Professional Ethics of the Florida Bar - Proposed Advisory Opinion 24-1
• Contact Information:
  • Staff Liaison: Christine Bilbrey; [email protected]; (850) 561-5579
  • Co-Chair: Gordon Glover; [email protected]; (352) 484-0075
  • Co-Chair: Duffy Myrtetus; [email protected]; (804) 788-7749

State: Illinois

• Name of Task Force: Illinois State Bar Association AI Committee
• Website: N/A
• Deliverables: 
  • Report to President Shawn Kasserman  (September 27,  2023)
• Contact Information:
  • Chair: George Bellas; [email protected]

State: Kentucky

• Name of Task Force: Kentucky AI Task Force
• Website: N/A
• Deliverables: N/A
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• Contact Information:
  • Staff Liaison: John Meyers;  [email protected]
  • Chair: Chief Justice John Minton

State: Maryland

• Name of Task Force: The Maryland State Bar Association Artificial Intelligence Task Force
• Website: N/A
• Deliverables: N/A
• Resources
• Contact Information:
  • Pamela E. Langham, Esquire, MSBA Legal Content Editor, [email protected]

State: Minnesota

• Name of Task Force: AI/UPL Working Group
• Website: N/A
• Deliverables: N/A
• Resources
  • Implications of Large Language Models (LLMs) on the Unauthorized Practice of Law (UPL) and Access to Justice
• Contact Information:
  • Staff Liaison: Nancy Mischel; [email protected]; (612) 278-6331
  • Chair: Damien Riehl

State: New York

• Name of Task Force: New York State Bar Association Task Force To Address Emerging Policy Challenges Related to Artificial Intelligence
• Website
• Deliverables: N/A
• Resources
  • World-Renowned Experts Among Prominent Panelists Who Will Be Discussing the Evolutionary Impact of Artificial Intelligence at the 2024 Presidential Summit
  • Report and Recommendations of the New York State Bar Association Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (2024)
• Contact Information:
  • Chair: Vivian Wesson; [email protected]

State: Texas

• Name of Task Force: Taskforce for the Responsible AI in the Law (TRAIL)
• Website: N/A
• Deliverables: 
  • Taskforce for Responsible AI in the Law Interim Report to the State Bar of Texas Board of Directors
• Contact Information:
  • Chair:  John Browning

State: Virginia

• Name of Task Force: The Virginia Bar Association Task Force on Artificial Intelligence
• Website: vba.org/ai
• Deliverables: 
  • VBA Model AI Policy for Law Firms (vba.org/ai)
• Resources: VBA AI Education programs: Real Smarts on AI (all available on YouTube)
  • Litigation Prep with ChatGPT
  • Contract Review with ChatGPT
  • AI Advisor: Use AI to Help Manage Your Firm, a VBA Practice Management Advisor webinar
  • AI 101: Don't Be Afraid (Just Be Smart)

Resolution of the VBA Board of Governors establishing the VBA Task Force on AI (https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.vba.org/resource/resmgr/task_forces/2024/VBA_Resolution_Creating_AI_T.pdf)

• Contact Information:
  • Executive Director:  Paul E. Fletcher, The Virginia Bar Association, Richmond. [email protected]. (804) 644-0041.

International

• AI Task Force Exec Cte Call Agenda (April 1 2024)
• ABA draft letter to Senator Schumer (March 23, 2024)
• G7 Bars Statement on GenAI (March 21,  2024)