Attorney-client privilege is crucial to your case. This protects your conversations with your attorney from getting to the other side. Can AI hurt this? Georgia employment attorney Jean Abreu details what attorney-client privilege is and how AI can potentially hurt it. This is part of our series with attorney Abreu discussing how AI can help and hurt your case. For more videos, click here. You can also read the transcription below.
Transcription: What is Attorney-Client Privilege?
So, attorney-client privilege is a privilege that’s recognized by the courts that protects information that is given between an attorney and their client, that’s specific to legal advice.
So that is what protects the conversations you have with your attorneys. That’s what protects written conversations as well.
So, you know, typically texting your attorney, you don’t have to worry about that being given over the other side or anyone seeing that when you talk to an attorney, you can ask questions, you can be fully transparent about any of your concerns and nothing of that is going to come out into the public record.
But if there’s anyone else involved in that conversation, if there’s a third party, whether it be a human being or sometimes now an AI chat bot, that privilege can be compromised.
