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title: "ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties) — KYE Protocol™ coverage"
description: "ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties) coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that enforces it."
url: https://kyeprotocol.com/compliance/aba-model-rules/
lang: en
source: "KYE Protocol"
---

> ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties) coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that enforces it.

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.

**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

| Category | Reqs | Enforced | Designed | Advisory | Deferred | Coverage |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Competence — verified AI work product authority (Rule 1.1) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | **50%** |
| Client communication release authority (Rule 1.4) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | **50%** |
| Confidentiality & client-information isolation (Rule 1.6) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | **50%** |
| Supervisory responsibility & firm AI-governance record (Rules 5.1 & 5.3) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | **50%** |
| Generative-AI use authority boundary (Formal Opinion 512) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | **50%** |
| Reasonable fees (Rule 1.5) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | **0%** |

## Every requirement → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it

| ID | Title | Status | KYE™ enforcement |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `aba-model-rules.rule-1-1-competence` | Verified-AI-work-product authority before a drafted output is relied on or filed | designed | **audit\_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-communication` | Client-communication release authority within the retainer scope | designed | **audit\_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-confidentiality` | Confidentiality & client-information isolation authority on privileged material | designed | **sector\_packs**: `kye:sector-pack:legal` **dictionaries**: `internal` **constitution\_refs**: `constitution/00-INDEX.md` |
| `aba-model-rules.rule-5-1-5-3-supervision` | Supervisory responsibility & producible firm AI-governance record | designed | **audit\_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-genai` | Generative-AI use authority boundary for the legal pack (Formal Opinion 512) | designed | **audit\_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-fees` | Reasonable fees (Rule 1.5) — legal billing determination | out-of-scope | _(no enforcement cited)_ |

Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: [Evidence Pack™](https://kyeprotocol.com/evidence-pack/) · [KYE Protocol™](https://kyeprotocol.com/).