The CBA frames AI as a professional-responsibility workstream
The Canadian Bar Association’s resolution calls for a working group on AI’s impact on legal practice, with attention to competence, confidentiality, privilege, independence, privacy, access to justice and unauthorized practice.
BY TRANSATLANTIC DESK · MAY 20, 2026 · 1 MIN READ
The Canadian Bar Association’s resolution calls for a working group on AI’s impact on legal practice, with attention to competence, confidentiality, privilege, independence, privacy, access to justice and unauthorized practice. It gives Canadian firms a signal that AI policies will need to track professional obligations, not simply IT controls.