General Counsel Oversight of Legal-Related GenAI Use: Executive AI Prompts, Privilege, and Discoverability

This CLE webinar will explore an increasing trend where executive and business teams turn to generative AI tools for legal-adjacent questions, delicate drafting matters, corporate issue spotting, and decision-making assistance. The panel will discuss how general counsel can manage the risks when executives using LLMs create concerns for privilege, confidentiality, discoverability, data governance, and supervision. The experts will examine how legal departments can implement practical controls without blocking responsible business use.

Business leadership increasingly uses generative AI tools to summarize documents, evaluate arguments, draft communications, understand regulations, and probe strategy—all before they contact the legal department, causing novel governance challenges for counsel. Which prompts may fall under legal advice? Prompts can include sensitive details like litigation strategy discussions, transaction details, employment issues, or even regulated data. Recent ethics guidance on AI-related privilege disputes demonstrates that legal departments must not presume that prompts, outputs, logs, and the like constitute protected information by their relation to legal matters.

Listen as our panel navigates shifting the legal function from reaction to proactive governance when executives and teams are using GenAI for potentially legally sensitive exploration.