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Generative AI is no longer optional infrastructure for legal practice. Seventy percent of law firm attorneys now use AI at least weekly, and lateral hiring of associates with AI specialty grew 106 percent across the Am Law 200 in 2025. Yet 2025 also produced a string of high-profile failures, including sanctioned filings by lawyers at nationally prominent firms and withdrawn opinions by federal district judges, in which AI-generated work product reached the docket without the supervisory review the profession requires. The throughline across these failures was not ignorance of the law. It was the absence of disciplined supervision over what AI produced.

This course establishes the foundation for responsible AI use by examining what generative AI actually does and does not do. Participants will work through how large language models generate output, why "trained on the internet" does not mean "knows the law," why hallucination is structural rather than incidental, and why even legal-specific tools continue to produce error rates of seventeen to thirty-three percent. The session frames AI as something Louisiana lawyers supervise, anchored in the supervision duties under Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct 5.1 and 5.3 and in the Louisiana Code of Professionalism's commitments to use technology responsibly and to keep current on changes in technology that affect the practice of law.

Learning outcomes. 
After this session, participants will be able to:

1.  Explain how large language models generate output and identify the structural causes of hallucination;
2.  Recognize the fluency trap and articulate why polished AI output can bypass critical evaluation; and
3.  Identify the Louisiana Rules of Professional Conduct and the Louisiana Code of Professionalism commitments that govern responsible AI use.

Required for the AI Navigator Workshop on June 5, 2026.

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