As we enter the age of generative AI together, all of us—solo practice lawyers, medium and large firm lawyers, judges, professors, law clerks, managers and administrative staff—must together leverage our wisdom and our time to understand generative AI and to approach it with a focus on ethics.

Recently the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility and the Philadelphia Bar Association professional guidance committee joined forces in the drafting and publication of Joint Formal Opinion No. 2024-200, titled "Ethical Issues Regarding the Use of Artificial Intelligence." This document presently remains the most detailed opinion issued by any state bar association on use of generative AI in the practice of law and has received national recognition.