ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties)

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties) — 50% of in-scope requirements covered.

6 requirements · 5 in scope (5 designed) · 1 out-of-scope (outside KYE™’s authority layer). The 50% is weighted over the in-scope base.

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties): requirement → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it

Demo data

You learn: Which requirements KYE™ enforces at runtime and with which artefact. You can: Walk the requirements.

  1. rule-1-1-competence · designed

    Verified-AI-work-product authority before a drafted output is relied on or filed

    Audit events: kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1 · Sector packs: kye:sector-pack:legal · Constitution: 12 purpose permission, 13 resilience loop

  2. rule-1-4-communication · designed

    Client-communication release authority within the retainer scope

    Audit events: kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1 · Sector packs: kye:sector-pack:legal · Constitution: 12 purpose permission

  3. rule-1-6-confidentiality · designed

    Confidentiality & client-information isolation authority on privileged material

    Sector packs: kye:sector-pack:legal · Constitution: 00 index

  4. rule-5-1-5-3-supervision · designed

    Supervisory responsibility & producible firm AI-governance record

    Audit events: kye.evidence.pack.v1 · Sector packs: kye:sector-pack:legal · Constitution: 21 delegated auditability, 36 governedui

  5. formal-opinion-512-genai · designed

    Generative-AI use authority boundary for the legal pack (Formal Opinion 512)

    Audit events: kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1 · Sector packs: kye:sector-pack:legal · Constitution: 12 purpose permission, 13 resilience loop, 36 governedui

  6. rule-1-5-fees · out-of-scope

    Reasonable fees (Rule 1.5) — legal billing determination

    (no enforcement cited)

How this widget is built
Demonstrates
KYE™ Compliance Mapping Rail™
Components
  • Framework requirement (clause)
  • Coverage status
  • KYE™ enforcement artefact (event, decision-record field, Evidence Pack™ entry)
Flow
Clause → status → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it, enforced requirements first. Architecture diagram
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Source: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct set the US legal profession's core duties — competence (Rule 1.1, including the technological-competence comment), communication (1.4), reasonable fees (1.5), confidentiality (1.6), and the supervisory responsibilities of partners, managers and supervising lawyers over subordinate lawyers and non-lawyer assistance (5.1 & 5.3) — extended to generative AI by ABA Formal Opinion 512 (2023) and state-bar guidance (California 2023, NYSBA 2024). KYE Protocol™ governs whether an AI-assisted action supporting each duty may PROCEED to a consequential legal action — under a named lawyer's authority, with the verification, confidentiality-isolation, communication, and supervisory-accountability record captured as a signed, replay-provable Evidence Pack™ that predates the incident. KYE™ governs the AUTHORITY BOUNDARY of the AI action, NOT wholesale compliance with the professional-conduct duty, and NOT the practice of law: it does not draft, advise, judge attorney conduct, or render the lawyer's professional judgment. · License: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and ABA Formal Opinion 512 are ABA works; the KYE™ registry paraphrases each rule's intent and cites the official rule identifier for authority-mapping purposes only. Model Rules are adopted, with variation, by individual US state bars — the governing text in any jurisdiction is that state's adopted rule.

By category

CategoryReqsEnforcedDesignedAdvisoryDeferredCoverage
Competence — verified AI work product authority (Rule 1.1)1010050%
Client communication release authority (Rule 1.4)1010050%
Confidentiality & client-information isolation (Rule 1.6)1010050%
Supervisory responsibility & firm AI-governance record (Rules 5.1 & 5.3)1010050%
Generative-AI use authority boundary (Formal Opinion 512)1010050%
Reasonable fees (Rule 1.5)100000%

Every requirement → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it

IDTitleStatusKYE™ enforcement
aba-model-rules.rule-1-1-competenceVerified-AI-work-product authority before a drafted output is relied on or fileddesignedaudit_events: kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
dictionaries: internal
constitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md
aba-model-rules.rule-1-4-communicationClient-communication release authority within the retainer scopedesignedaudit_events: kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
constitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md
aba-model-rules.rule-1-6-confidentialityConfidentiality & client-information isolation authority on privileged materialdesignedsector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
dictionaries: internal
constitution_refs: constitution/00-INDEX.md
aba-model-rules.rule-5-1-5-3-supervisionSupervisory responsibility & producible firm AI-governance recorddesignedaudit_events: kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
constitution_refs: constitution/21-DELEGATED-AUDITABILITY.md, constitution/36-GOVERNEDUI.md
aba-model-rules.formal-opinion-512-genaiGenerative-AI use authority boundary for the legal pack (Formal Opinion 512)designedaudit_events: kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
constitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md, constitution/36-GOVERNEDUI.md
aba-model-rules.rule-1-5-feesReasonable fees (Rule 1.5) — legal billing determinationout-of-scope(no enforcement cited)

Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: Evidence Pack™ · KYE Protocol™.