Topic:                Ethics and Professional Responsibility in the Age of Generative AI

 Date:                  Wednesday, September 24, 2025 – 5:00pm to 7:30pm

 Location:         Maple Room – Sticky Wicket Pub (food provided)

Topic:                 Generative AI promises new opportunities for efficiency and innovation in legal practice, but it also raises profound ethical and professional responsibility challenges. This panel will explore these issues both in theory and in practice. Panelists will examine how lawyers’ obligations under the Code of Professional Conduct and Law Society Rules intersect with the use of emerging AI tools, with attention to confidentiality, privilege, and the limits of anonymization in protecting solicitor-client information. Drawing on their experience developing the Law Society’s AI Practice Resource, Patricia Parker and Cary Ann Moore will provide practical insights from a regulatory and practice perspective, while Professor Robert Diab will situate these developments within broader theoretical and academic discussions of professional ethics in the AI era.                        

Panelists:        Patricia Parker (Practice Advice Coordinator, LSBC); Cary Ann Moore (Legislative Counsel, LSBC), and Professor Robert Diab (Thompson Rivers University)

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Professional Development Credits: This course offers up to 2 hours of Professional Development (and Ethics) Credits (See “How to get CPD Credit” below).

Cost: The cost of the event is $55.00 per person paid to the “Victoria Bar Association”, either by:

1. Pay online through the Inns of Court event page at www.Vicbar.ca (click link); or

1. Pay manually by sending a cheque payable to “Victoria Bar Association” to:

ATT:  League and Williams Law Corp.

210-174 Wilson St, Victoria BC V9A 7N6

How to get PD Credit

To get the 2 PD Credits, this is the process after the event has completed:

1. Find Law Society “Member Services”
2. Select “Member Portal” and enter your information
3. ‘Login’
4. Under “Education” select “Continuing Professional Development (CPD)”
5. Type the group study name of “Inns of Court” into the “Course/Group Study” name box (leave dates out as this is set up with a date range)
6. In the Course/Group Study box type in ‘Inns of Court”
7. From the Drop down menu select “Inns of Court – Victoria Bar Association”
8. Select “Inns of Court Victoria Court (18 Credits) Jan.1 – December 31, 2025” or something similar as the name is undergoing a slight change.
9. DO NOT TYPE IN THE NAME OF THIS COURSE WHEN APPLYING FOR CREDITS. YOU WILL NOT FIND IT. YOU DO NOT NEED THE NAME IN ORDER TO CLAIM YOUR 2 HOURS OF CREDIT.
10. Under “Record your CPD hours” type ‘2’
11. Under “Completion Date” type in the date you took the course

Select the “Get Credit” Button