AI Rules for Arkansas Law Firms
Last verified July 8, 2026
Arkansas has not settled a single AI rule for lawyers, it has several moving at once: a proposed administrative order on confidential data, proposed amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct, and two enacted statutes that touch how your firm and its public-sector clients use AI. This page separates what is already binding from what is still working its way through the Supreme Court.
Where Arkansas Stands
Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 25 on Artificial Intelligence (2025 Ark. 117) would bar entering confidential or sealed client or case information, or internal CourtConnect data, into generative AI tools; doing so can already violate Administrative Order No. 19, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and the Code of Judicial Conduct independent of Order No. 25's own status. Separately, proposed amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct (2025 Ark. 115), covering Rule 5.3 and the Preamble, were released for comment in June 2025 with the comment period closing August 1, 2025. These amendments have been reported adopted as binding, but the final per curiam order was not located on arcourts.gov, so treat that status as unconfirmed until your firm sees the published order.
What Your Firm Must Do
If the Rule 5.3 and Preamble amendments are adopted as reported, the supervising lawyer becomes personally and fully responsible for AI-assisted work product. That means your firm needs a written AI use policy and a citation-verification step before any filing, regardless of which associate or tool produced the draft. Independent of that rule's final status, do not input confidential client information, sealed case data, or CourtConnect records into generative AI tools; that exposure already runs through Administrative Order No. 19 and your existing conduct obligations.
Work Product and Public-Sector Clients
Act 927 of 2025 (HB 1876), effective August 2025, settles a practical question: the person or employer who supplies the inputs owns AI-generated content and trained models absent a contrary agreement. For your firm, that means AI-assisted work product created by your lawyers within the scope of employment belongs to the firm. If your firm represents cities, counties, school districts, or other public entities, Act 848 of 2025 (HB 1958) is relevant even though it does not bind your firm directly: it requires those public-entity clients to adopt written AI and automated decision tool policies that keep a human making the final decision, and your firm may need to help them build that policy.
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- Arkansas Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 25: Artificial Intelligence (2025 Ark. 117)
- In re Amendments to the Arkansas Rules of Professional Conduct (2025 Ark. 115), Rule 5.3 and Preamble
- Act 927 of 2025 (HB 1876), ownership of generative AI models and content
- Act 848 of 2025 (HB 1958), public entity AI use policies