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title: "Using generative AI in Alaska legal practice: ethics checklist"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems/us-ak-genai-ethics-checklist"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a45-us-ak-genai-ethics-checklist"
area_id: "A45"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-11-08"
---

# Using generative AI in Alaska legal practice: ethics checklist

> Checklist of what Alaska Bar Ethics Opinion 2025-1 says about lawyers using generative AI: understanding the tool, protecting confidences, supervision, fair billing, talking to clients and verifying every citation.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems/us-ak-genai-ethics-checklist  
Law stated as at: 2026-11-08

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [AI decision systems](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems.md)
- Jurisdictions: United States, Alaska
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-11-08
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-11-08 against the authority it cites, for United States and Alaska.

## When to use it

Use when an Alaska lawyer or firm sets up, audits or reviews its use of generative AI, and when onboarding lawyers and staff. Pair it with the firm AI policy and the US generative AI incident register in this library.

## How AI may be used

A tool may list the firm's AI tools and match them to each point; a lawyer confirms the Alaska sources are current, decides whether each point is met and signs off.

**AI may:**

- List the firm's AI tools and the matters they are used on, from the firm's own register
- Match each tool to the checklist points and flag points with no control
- Draft staff reminders that quote the named Alaska sources accurately

**AI must not:**

- Must not mark a point as met, a source as current or a citation as checked
- Must not decide whether a tool's terms protect confidential client information
- Must not add duties that the named sources do not state
- Must not treat this checklist as a substitute for the named sources or for a later opinion, rule or order

**The lawyer checks:**

- The current version of each named Alaska source has been confirmed
- The forum's local rules, standing orders and the assigned judge's orders have been checked for AI requirements
- Federal court rules and orders have been checked separately for any federal matter
- Each AI tool's terms of use and privacy policy have been read for access to inputs, retention and training use

## Authorities

- [Alaska Bar Association Ethics Opinion 2025-1, Generative Artificial Intelligence & The Practice of Law (approved by the Ethics Committee 3 April 2025; adopted by the Board of Governors 23 April 2025)](https://alaskabar.org/wp-content/uploads/2025-1.pdf)

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/ai-decision-systems/us-ak-genai-ethics-checklist and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*