Legal Prompting - AI Act: obligations for legal professionals

Ninth episode of Legal Prompting. After discussing professional secrecy as a criterion for choosing an AI infrastructure, we shift our focus to the regulatory framework: the European AI Act and the obligations placed on legal professionals as deployers of AI systems.

The central principle: those who use AI in legal practice are not mere users but regulated subjects under the AI Act, with precise obligations. To these is added the cross-cutting duty of AI literacy (Article 4), already applicable since February 2025.

Three concrete applications:

• Classify the risk of the system used (prohibited, high, limited, minimal)
• Notice to the client and transparency under Article 50 of the AI Act
• Documenting use: logs, standard prompts, human controls

Three cross-cutting operational rules: effective human oversight, preliminary assessment of tools, continuous updating on the Regulation’s deadlines.

In the next episode we will close the journey with a synthesis of the method and a look at the perspectives of evolution.

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