Increasing use of artificial intelligence tools by judges and courts raises questions about ethical challenges. Today, judges encounter AI with increasing frequency, from attorneys, from witnesses, from self-represented litigants and even from their own court staff. Shutting AI out of the courtroom is no longer an option. In order to ensure judges fulfill their duty of competence, they need enough information about how AI works to exercise their judgment when AI shows up in their courtroom.

This webinar will address how judges’ use and encounters with AI intersects with the rules in the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct. NJC AI Faculty will describe common judicial uses and encounters with AI and connect them to these rules from the Model Code: • Rule 1.2 — Promoting Confidence in the Judiciary • Rule 2.3 — Bias, Prejudice, and Harassment • Rule 2.5 — Competence, Diligence, and Cooperation • Rule 2.9 — Ex Parte Communications • Rule 3.5 — Use of Nonpublic Information

Faculty also will offer strategies for minimizing risks of violating ethical rules for judges. Webinar faculty includes:

Justice Linda Bell (Nevada)

Judge Thomas Fowler (Arkansas)

Judge Leanna Weissmann (Indiana)