Bailey Glasser Lawyers Author Chambers & Partners Global Artificial Intelligence Trends Guide

"With great (computing) power comes great (ethical) responsibility. As the world races to realise the immense potential for workflow efficiency that artificial intelligence offers, the more important it is for lawyers to understand AI’s shortcomings and the foreseeable consequences of its use."

Bailey Glasser lawyers Katherine E. Charonko, Panida Anderson, Allison A. Bruff, and Elizabeth L. Stryker have authored an article appearing in the Chambers and Partners 2026 Artificial Intelligence Global Practice Guide: Trends and Developments, USA: “AI in Legal Practice: With Great (Computing) Power Comes Great (Ethical) Responsibility" 

In this article, the authors examine the ethical implications of the use of artificial intelligence in the legal industry.  Ms. Charonko, the firm's Electronically Stored Information & Technology Practice Group Leader, is a Chambers-ranked litigator who writes and speaks frequently about technology issues, including in the artificial intelligence arena. Ms. Charonko was named a winner of the Monica Bay Women of Legal Tech Award by Legalweek (ALM) in 2026 and was included on the 2026 Lawdragon 100 Leading AI & Legal Tech Advisors list. Kate is nationally ranked by Chambers & Partners in the Product Liability: Plaintiffs category, and was named a 2026 Lawdragon Top 500 Leading Litigators list, among many other recognitions.

As set forth in the article's introduction: 

With great (computing) power comes great (ethical) responsibility. As the world races to realise the immense potential for workflow efficiency that artificial intelligence offers, the more important it is for lawyers to understand AI’s shortcomings and the foreseeable consequences of its use. For ethical and practical reasons, lawyers practising in 2026 must be aware of these issues not only if they choose to incorporate AI in their practice, but also because clients, expert witnesses, and courts are doing the same thing, for better or worse.

In this article, the authors use the term “AI” to mean both generative AI, which uses large language models (LLM) to predict the next set of words (and images) to create new content, and agentic AI, a more advanced technology that takes direction and then executes tasks independently. These tools are becoming more popular for tasks related to both the practice and business of law. Meanwhile, a shrinking number of lawyers simply shun AI due to the notorious unreliability of its output for legal research and writing. Whether you choose to incorporate (or avoid) AI in your practice, now is the time to understand it.

This article relies on familiar rules of professional conduct and recent cases to demonstrate how AI’s growing popularity and adoption means that we, as lawyers, should learn all we can and proceed with caution. Recent rulemaking proposals and standing orders also highlight how courts and governing bodies are working to regulate how lawyers may use AI in their practice.

Chambers Global Practice Guides provide in-house counsel with expert legal commentary on the main practice areas in key jurisdictions around the world, focusing on practical legal issues affecting business and enable the reader to compare legislation and procedure across a range of key jurisdictions. For every guide, Chambers selects Contributing Editors who are ranked in the relevant Chambers Guides as the best in their field. The individual contributors who write the "Law and Practice" and "Trends & Developments" sections are selected on the same basis.

Katherine Charonko is Bailey Glasser's Electronically Stored Information & Technology Practice Group Leader and is Chambers-ranked on the nationwide level.  Litigators Panida Anderson and Liz Stryker are both members of the ESI & Technology team where they design and deploy strategies and technologies across the firm's complex cases and at trial. Litigator Allison Bruff is a member of the firm's Consumer Litigation Practice Group and also serves as a Commissioner to the Supreme Court Fellows Commission, having been appointed to that role by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.  

The authors also deeply appreciate the contribution of partner Brian J. McAllister to this publication.

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