AI Rules for Florida Law Firms
Last verified July 8, 2026
Florida courts moved first among the states on AI-generated legal citations, and that change now touches every filing your firm signs. Carriers and clients are starting to ask what your firm does to verify AI output before it reaches a judge, and the state bar has already laid out separate rules for how AI can be used with client matters and advertising.
Where Florida Stands
Florida has acted through its courts rather than the legislature. The amended Rule 2.515 (In re: Amendments, No. SC2026-0673) took effect June 15, 2026, and Administrative Order AOSC26-12 followed to keep the standard uniform statewide rather than left to individual circuits.
What Your Firm Must Do
Every signature your firm puts on a Florida state court filing, whether from an attorney or a self-represented party, now certifies that the legal authorities cited exist and are cited accurately. Filings with fabricated or inaccurate citations can result in reprimand, contempt, striking of the document, dismissal, or an award of costs and fees against the signer. Separately, Florida Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion 24-1 sets terms for using generative AI on client matters: informed client consent before confidential information goes into a third-party AI tool, supervision and verification of AI output at the same level applied to a nonlawyer assistant's work, and billing that passes through only the actual cost of AI use.
Malpractice and Carrier Considerations
Because Rule 2.515 puts the certification obligation on the signer, an unverified AI-drafted citation is no longer a drafting error your firm can absorb quietly. It is a rule violation with defined consequences, which is the kind of exposure carriers ask about directly. Opinion 24-1's supervision and consent requirements give your firm a documented standard to point to when a client or carrier asks how AI use is controlled.
What's Still Pending
AOSC26-12 has no separate effective date in the record; it was issued alongside the May 28, 2026 rule amendment and functions to preempt circuit-level administrative orders, so your firm should not expect additional local AI rules to layer on top of the statewide standard.
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