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Ethics Of Using Artificial Intelligence To Augment Drafting Legal Documents, David Hricik, Asya-Lorrene S. Morgan, Kyle H. Williams

Texas A&M Journal of Property Law

This article focuses on the second step in the due diligence process. While it addresses the question of competency, it focuses more on the further steps a lawyer must take to ensure that the use of the service as part of the representation of a client is consistent with the lawyer’s other ethical obligations. While it is important to emphasize that competency requires that the lawyer must be able to assess whether the work product is comparable to what a human would produce, competency is of course a fact-depending inquiry: whether a will is competently drafted turns on the standard …