District of Columbia

Statutes and code sections

Item	What it says	Source and date read
D.C. Code Sec. 20-303	Section as published on the official code site, read 2026-10-04. History line shown there: Legislative history ends with D.C. Law 25-302, sec. 4(d), Mar. 21, 2025, 72 DCR 780. Page has no 'laws received as of' statement.	official source read 2026-10-04

Bar and supreme-court opinions (including AI)

Item	What it says	Source and date read
Generative-AI ethics opinion: Attorneys' Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Client Matters	Lawyers must understand how generative AI works and where it fails, check its output (especially citations), guard client confidentiality, bill only for real time, and supervise staff who use it.	official source read 2026-10-04

Attorney regulation: admission, discipline, CLE

Item	What it says	Source and date read
Continuing legal education	none (no general CLE requirement) (not applicable) A one-time Mandatory Course on D.C. Rules of Professional Conduct and D.C. practice, within 12 months of admission, for lawyers admitted after July 1, 1994.	official source read 2026-10-04

Not yet verified for this jurisdiction: Attorney admission; Attorney discipline; Rules of Professional Conduct. Absence here is not a statement about the law; it only means this reference has not yet confirmed the item against an official source.

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