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title: "Using generative AI in Missouri legal practice: ethics checklist"
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# Using generative AI in Missouri legal practice: ethics checklist

> Checklist of what Missouri's own sources say about lawyers using generative AI: Informal Opinions 2024-11 and 2026-09 on competence, confidentiality, informed consent, supervision, fees and court rules, plus local AI…

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Law stated as at: 2026-11-08

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Checklist of what Missouri's own sources say about lawyers using generative AI: Informal Opinions 2024-11 and 2026-09 on competence, confidentiality, informed consent, supervision, fees and court rules, plus local AI disclosure rules as recorded in this library's Missouri record.

## 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, Missouri
- 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 2 authorities it cites, for United States and Missouri.

## When to use it

Use when a Missouri lawyer or firm sets up, audits or trains staff on generative AI use, or adopts AI deposition software. The main sources are two informal opinions of the Office of Legal Ethics Counsel, which are advisory. Pair it with the firm's AI policy, vendor checks and engagement letter.

## How AI may be used

A tool may list the firm's AI tools and match them to each point; a lawyer confirms the Missouri 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 Missouri 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 Missouri 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
- Client consent has been recorded before any confidential client information goes into an AI tool, as Opinion 2026-09 says

## Authorities

- [Office of Legal Ethics Counsel (Supreme Court of Missouri), Informal Opinion 2024-11: lawyer's use of generative artificial intelligence (adopted 25 April 2024)](https://mo-legal-ethics.org/informal-opinion/2024-11/)
- [Office of Legal Ethics Counsel (Supreme Court of Missouri), Informal Opinion 2026-09: use of AI software in depositions, including real-time listening (adopted 3 August 2026)](https://mo-legal-ethics.org/informal-opinion/2026-09/)

## 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-mo-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.*