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Drafting assistance engaged duties of competence and confidentiality; an agent that files, sends, and schedules engages the supervision rule — and supervision of software is an architecture.
The ambient assistant that joins every call writes discoverable minutes of privileged conversations — and most privilege programs were never told.
The matter-coding schema legal operations built for budgeting now determines whether regulatory headcount and exposure reporting is a query or a scramble.
Generative audio and video have made authentication a contested discipline; the rules did not change, but the burden they assign has become work.
ABA Formal Opinion 512 settled the ethics frame in 2024; the fight has moved to engagement letters, where efficiency gains are becoming a negotiated price.
California's frontier-model and training-data transparency statutes switched on with the new year, and their compliance currency is paperwork.