The Lawyer’s Guide to AI Compliance Your Bar Will Respect.
Privacy, confidentiality and ethics for law firms using AI. Three practicing attorneys draw the exact line between using AI well and crossing it, then answer the questions lawyers actually ask. A sixty-minute general session, plus a members-only Q&A.
Wednesday, 15 July 2026 · 11 AM PT · 90 minutes · live and online
Andrey V. Lyutykh · Co-Founder & CEO, My Legal Academy
The line you cannot afford to cross
One wrong paste can waive privilege.
Every client fact you put into an AI tool moves through four places. You control three. The fourth sits outside your office, and that is where a confidentiality breach or a waived privilege happens. This session shows you the line and how to stay on the right side of it.
Privileged
The client
Facts told to you in confidence.
Your call
Your firm
You decide what gets used.
Outside your control
The AI tool
Where your prompt goes.
You decide what’s sharedYou rely on it
The output
Drafts you still own and must check.
Why this, why now
AI is already in your firm. The risk is using it without an answer.
Your team is already pasting client facts into chatbots. One careless prompt is a bar complaint, a malpractice exposure or a waived privilege. Leave this hour knowing exactly what is safe, so you can use AI in real client work without looking over your shoulder.
Stop second-guessing
Know the exact line, so you can use AI on real matters without the nagging worry that you just crossed it.
Protect privilege
A clear rule for what is safe to put in a prompt, so one shortcut never costs you a client's confidence.
Keep the speed
Move as fast as AI lets you and still defend every step to a client, a judge or the bar.
Five questions we answer
The ones you have already asked yourself.
If I put client facts into an AI tool, have I breached confidentiality or waived privilege?
The question that stops most lawyers cold. We draw the actual line, not a vague warning.
Where does my data really go, and is it training someone else's model?
What happens to a prompt after you hit enter, and which settings and tools actually keep it contained.
What do the ethics rules and my bar actually require of me?
Competence, supervision, candor and consent, translated from the rules into what you do on a Tuesday.
How do I get the productivity without becoming the cautionary tale?
The workflow that lets you move fast and still defend every step if anyone ever asks.
Do I have to tell my clients, and do I need their consent?
When disclosure and consent come into play, and language you can actually use.
The agenda · 90 minutes
Sixty value-packed minutes, free. Members go behind the scenes.
The general session is free, live and worth your time: three practicing attorneys on the confidentiality line and the ethics rules, then a moderated discussion on the questions lawyers actually ask. MLA AI Labs members stay thirty more minutes for an open-floor Q&A with the panel, and keep the recording and the resources.
- 11:00 AM PT · general session5 min
“Why this matters now.”
your win — Mike Smith frames the stakes. AI is already in your practice. Confidentiality and ethics are the gate you have to get right.
- 11:05 AM PTLucian Pera
“Where the confidentiality line actually sits.”
your win — What counts as a disclosure, how privilege and confidentiality hold up when you use AI, and the questions to ask before you paste a client fact into a tool.
- 11:30 AM PTMathew Kerbis
“Ethics, consent and getting it right.”
your win — What the rules expect of you, when client consent comes in, your duties of competence and supervision, and how to build AI in without becoming the cautionary tale.
- 11:50 AM PTmoderated
“Your fears, answered out loud.”
your win — The panel addresses the questions lawyers actually ask, drawn from three months of discussions with 1,000+ attorneys using AI in their practice.
- 12:00 PM PT · members only30 minMembers-only Q&A
“Live Q&A with all three attorneys.”
your win — Bring your hardest question. Open floor with Lucian, Mathew and Michael, reserved for MLA AI Labs members. The recording and resources go to members, too.
Who you’ll learn from
Three practicing attorneys. One honest hour.
Not vendors and not theorists. Three practicing attorneys who live at the intersection of AI and the rules that govern your practice. Two present, one moderates.
Lucian T. Pera, Esq.
Presenter · legal ethics, Adams & Reese
Lucian T. Pera is a partner at Adams & Reese and one of the nation’s leading legal-ethics attorneys, with more than 30 years advising lawyers and firms on professional responsibility. He helped rewrite the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct as a member of the Ethics 2000 Commission, chaired the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility, and received its Michael Franck Award, the field’s highest career honor. He writes and speaks nationally on the ethics of a fast-changing legal market, including how firms adopt new technology without crossing a line.
covering — Where the confidentiality and privilege line really sits when you use AI: what counts as a disclosure, what client consent requires and the data-protection duties that ride along with it.
Mathew Kerbis, Esq.
Presenter · The Subscription Attorney
Mathew Kerbis, “The Subscription Attorney,” founded Subscription Attorney LLC and co-founded Practi, building a subscription model that uses automation and AI to deliver legal services starting at $20 a month. He hosts the Law Subscribed podcast, with more than 350 episodes, and the monthly Legal AI Live event, and won the ABA’s James I. Keane Award for advancing access to justice. He speaks nationally on AI, legal ethics and the future of legal practice.
covering — What the ethics rules expect of you, where client consent and supervision come in, and how to build AI into a practice the right way instead of the cautionary-tale way.
Michael H. Smith, Esq.
ModeratorMichael H. Smith is a Georgia-based estate planning and elder law attorney with more than 30 years of practice experience, and a builder working at the intersection of law and artificial intelligence. As co-founder of Smith Barid, LLC, he has put AI to work inside a live law firm, and he is the founder of LawBridge, Inc., the company behind LAILA (Lawyer’s AI Legal Assistant), a tool built to help solo and small-firm attorneys practice more efficiently. A wealth advisor, author of The Ultimate Gift, and host of the Ultra Money Mindset podcast, Mike brings a practitioner’s view to the promise and the ethical questions of AI in legal practice.
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The sixty-minute session is free, live and worth your time on its own: the compliance playbook, straight from practicing attorneys. MLA AI Labs members stay for thirty more minutes of open Q&A with the panel, keep the recording and the resource pack, and get a hands-on AI Lab like this every week.
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The 60-minute general session is free to attend live. The 30-minute Q&A that follows, plus the recording and the resources, are reserved for MLA AI Labs members. You can join before or after the session and keep access to everything.
No. This is for practicing lawyers, not engineers. We start from the questions you are actually asking: what is safe to put into an AI tool, what the ethics rules require, and how to get the productivity without the exposure. Bring your real concerns.
Members do. Every MLA AI Lab is recorded and posted to the members' Bonus Hub with a written recap and resources. If you cannot make the live time, joining as a member is how you get the replay.
No. This is an educational session led by practicing attorneys sharing how they think about AI, confidentiality and ethics. It does not create an attorney-client relationship and it is not a substitute for your own judgment or your state bar's rules. Confirm anything specific against your jurisdiction.
Solo and small-firm lawyers who want to use AI in real client work without crossing a confidentiality or ethics line. If you have ever paused before pasting a client fact into a chatbot, this session is built for you.
A weekly, hands-on program where lawyers learn to put AI to work in their practice safely and well. Members get live working sessions, every recording, the resource library and a community of attorneys figuring this out together. This privacy session is one Lab in that series.