AI-created documents sent to attorney aren't privileged, judge says
A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that documents that a Texas financial services executive created using artificial intelligence sent to his attorney did not qualify for privilege. (Image from Shutterstock)
A federal judge in New York ruled Tuesday that documents that a Texas financial services executive created using artificial intelligence sent to his attorney did not qualify for privilege.
Law360 has the story.
The comments came ahead of an April 6 trial of former Beneficient CEO Bradley Heppner. Heppner faces charges for looting publicly traded company GWG Holdings, which invested heavily in Beneficient, according to the story, and charges include fraud and lying to auditors.
Knowing that he was targeted by law enforcement, Heppner in 2025 used an AI tool to prepare 31 documents related to his legal case and shared them with the defense counsel from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, according to Law360.
The government then requested the court to not allow attorney-client privilege or consider the documents as protected work product, according to Law360.
“I’m not seeing remotely any basis for any claim of attorney-client privilege,” said U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York.
Rakoff noted that the AI tool employed has a provision that any information inputted is not confidential, and users shouldn’t have expectations of privacy, according to the story.
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