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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
Read the originalRead on October 17, 2026
- What it is
- The New York City Bar opinion on AI tools that record, transcribe and summarize calls between lawyers and clients. It says the lawyer must obtain client consent before an AI system records the call.
- How much weight it carries
- The bar's own page returned no text, so this copy is on a legal-AI company's site (Ezel AI), which summarizes the opinion. The quoted sentence is taken from that summary. Read the bar's published opinion before relying on the exact wording.
Facts taken from this source
- 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.
“The opinion holds that clients must be notified, and consent obtained, whenever a call is recorded by an AI-driven system” (Consent analysis)