AI Rules for Arizona Law Firms
Last verified July 8, 2026
Arizona's AI oversight for lawyers runs through a standing Arizona Supreme Court committee rather than a bar opinion or statute. That committee has already published guidance your firm can be measured against, and it remains the body that will set future expectations for AI use in filings and case work.
Where Arizona Stands
Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Order 2024-33 established the Steering Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts, which is the source of the state's AI rules and guidance for the legal profession. The committee has published Generative AI: Ethical Best Practices for Lawyers and Judges, adopted guidance covering competence, confidentiality, client communication, billing, candor, bias, and supervision.
What Your Firm Must Do
Under the committee's guidance, your firm must verify every AI-generated citation before it is filed, keep client and nonpublic information out of public AI tools, and supervise how staff use AI in case work. Because the Steering Committee is a standing body under Administrative Order 2024-33, your firm should monitor its output going forward, since it sets what Arizona judges will expect from counsel using AI. The Court of Appeals has already enforced that expectation: in Dineen and Shibata v. Kotchka, No. 1 CA-CV 25-0606 PB (July 15, 2026), Division One struck fabricated and inaccurate citations from an appellant's brief and held that citing a hallucinated case is sanctionable "intentional or unintentional," awarding the appellee her fees and costs traceable to the fabricated authority.
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- Generative AI: Ethical Best Practices for Lawyers and Judges (Arizona Steering Committee on AI and the Courts)
- Arizona Supreme Court Administrative Order 2024-33 (Steering Committee on Artificial Intelligence and the Courts)
- Dineen and Shibata v. Kotchka, No. 1 CA-CV 25-0606 PB (Ariz. Ct. App. July 15, 2026)