Fact · Voice privacy and security
New York City Bar Formal Opinion 2025-6 says clients must be told, and must consent, when an AI-driven system records a call with them.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“The opinion holds that clients must be notified, and consent obtained, whenever a call is recorded by an AI-driven system”
NYC Bar Formal Opinion 2025-6: AI Recording and Transcription of Client Conversations, New York City Bar Association Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, New York City Bar Association, 2025, Consent analysis.
Open the original- What it measures
- The opinion says the AI process differs materially from a lawyer's manual note, because a voice recording and an AI transcript come first.
- What it does not show
- The copy we could open is a summary on another site. Read the bar's published text before relying on it.