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Commonwealth Lawyers Association's Declaration on AI: A Commitment to Ethical Governance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping the global landscape, offering transformative possibilities while posing significant challenges. Recognizing its dual potential, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (CLA) has issued a comprehensive Declaration on AI, emphasizing ethical governance, human rights, and sustainability. This statement, released on April 9, 2025, outlines seven guiding principles to ensure AI's responsible development and deployment.
Establishing a Risk-Management Program for AI in Law Firms
How can your law firm's risk management programs keep up with the ethical and practical challenges of artificial intelligence?
Here is a "quick start" outline.
Serving the Foreign Client
As cross-border and global business issues become more common, many small, previously locally-focused, law firms now face, for the first time, the challenges and opportunities of acting for foreign clients.
Even law firms that already do cross-border legal work encounter new and different expectations from new clients from the other side of the world, where local customs and practice may be profoundly different from the firm's previous experience with clients from neighboring countries or one of the major business centers.