ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties) · vRules 1.1 / 1.4 / 1.5 / 1.6…

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties)

ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct (AI-relevant duties) — 50% of in-scope requirements covered.

6 requirements · 5 in scope (5 designed) · 1 out-of-scope (outside KYE™’s authority layer). The 50% is weighted over the in-scope base.

Source: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct set the US legal profession's core duties — competence (Rule 1.1, including the technological-competence comment), communication (1.4), reasonable fees (1.5), confidentiality (1.6), and the supervisory responsibilities of partners, managers and supervising lawyers over subordinate lawyers and non-lawyer assistance (5.1 & 5.3) — extended to generative AI by ABA Formal Opinion 512 (2023) and state-bar guidance (California 2023, NYSBA 2024). KYE Protocol™ governs whether an AI-assisted action supporting each duty may PROCEED to a consequential legal action — under a named lawyer's authority, with the verification, confidentiality-isolation, communication, and supervisory-accountability record captured as a signed, replay-provable Evidence Pack™ that predates the incident. KYE™ governs the AUTHORITY BOUNDARY of the AI action, NOT wholesale compliance with the professional-conduct duty, and NOT the practice of law: it does not draft, advise, judge attorney conduct, or render the lawyer's professional judgment. · License: The ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct and ABA Formal Opinion 512 are ABA works; the KYE™ registry paraphrases each rule's intent and cites the official rule identifier for authority-mapping purposes only. Model Rules are adopted, with variation, by individual US state bars — the governing text in any jurisdiction is that state's adopted rule.

By category

CategoryReqsEnforcedDesignedAdvisoryDeferredCoverage
Competence — verified AI work product authority (Rule 1.1) 1 0 1 0 0 50%
Client communication release authority (Rule 1.4) 1 0 1 0 0 50%
Confidentiality & client-information isolation (Rule 1.6) 1 0 1 0 0 50%
Supervisory responsibility & firm AI-governance record (Rules 5.1 & 5.3) 1 0 1 0 0 50%
Generative-AI use authority boundary (Formal Opinion 512) 1 0 1 0 0 50%
Reasonable fees (Rule 1.5) 1 0 0 0 0 0%

Every requirement → the KYE™ artefact that enforces it

IDTitleStatusKYE™ enforcement
aba-model-rules.rule-1-1-competence Verified-AI-work-product authority before a drafted output is relied on or filed designed audit_events: kye.evidence.decision_map.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
dictionaries: internal
constitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md
aba-model-rules.rule-1-4-communication Client-communication release authority within the retainer scope designed audit_events: kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
constitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md
aba-model-rules.rule-1-6-confidentiality Confidentiality & client-information isolation authority on privileged material designed sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
dictionaries: internal
constitution_refs: constitution/00-INDEX.md
aba-model-rules.rule-5-1-5-3-supervision Supervisory responsibility & producible firm AI-governance record designed audit_events: kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
constitution_refs: constitution/21-DELEGATED-AUDITABILITY.md, constitution/36-GOVERNEDUI.md
aba-model-rules.formal-opinion-512-genai Generative-AI use authority boundary for the legal pack (Formal Opinion 512) designed audit_events: kye.purpose.admissibility.v1, kye.evidence.pack.v1
sector_packs: kye:sector-pack:legal
constitution_refs: constitution/12-PURPOSE-PERMISSION.md, constitution/13-RESILIENCE-LOOP.md, constitution/36-GOVERNEDUI.md
aba-model-rules.rule-1-5-fees Reasonable fees (Rule 1.5) — legal billing determination out-of-scope (no enforcement cited)