AI Rules for Utah Law Firms
Last verified July 8, 2026
Utah was among the first states to pass a general AI consumer protection law, and it applies to law firms by name: legal practice is treated as a regulated occupation under the statute. A 2025 amendment has since narrowed exactly when your firm has to disclose AI use to a client. This page covers both.
Where Utah Stands
Utah's Artificial Intelligence Policy Act (SB 149, 2024, codified at Utah Code Title 13, Chapter 72) designates law as a regulated occupation, meaning a firm using generative AI in client-facing interactions has a statutory disclosure duty and cannot defend a consumer-protection claim by blaming the AI's output. SB 226 (2025), the Artificial Intelligence Consumer Protection Amendments, narrowed that duty the following year.
What Your Firm Must Do
Under SB 226's amendments, prominent disclosure is required at the start of any high-risk interaction, which the amended law defines to include providing legal advice through generative AI, and otherwise only when a client asks whether they are interacting with AI. Any client-facing chatbot or AI-driven intake tool your firm uses needs disclosure built into that workflow, and staff should know how to answer a client who asks directly.
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