Don’t Paste the Attorney’s Letter Into ChatGPT- What HOA Boards and Managers Need to Know About AI and Legal Privilege
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Federal court rules that conversations with public AI chatbots are not protected by attorney-client privilege. By using ai, you may be stripping that advice of its l
HB Ad Slot HB Mobile Ad Slot Adam M. BeaudoinEmail910-794-4847Bio and Articles Angela P. DoughtyEmail252-672-5471 Bio and Articles Find Your Next Job ! Legal Counsel, Property & Casualty - Hybrid Insurance Defense & Civil Litigation Attorney Paralegal (CVS Health) Explore More Job Openings HB Ad Slot Don’t Paste the Attorney’s Letter Into ChatGPT- What HOA Boards and Managers Need to Know About AI and Legal Privilege by: Adam M. Beaudoin, Angela P. Doughty, Ward and Smith, P.A. - News + Insights Wednesday, March 4, 2026 Related Practices & Jurisdictions Artificial IntelligenceLitigation Trial Practice All Federal Print Mail Download />i A federal court just ruled that conversations with public AI chatbots are not protected by attorney-client privilege. For HOA Boards and community managers, that ruling has a direct and practical consequence: if you copy legal advice from your association’s attorney into ChatGPT, Claude, or any similar tool to explain it to homeowners or committee members, you may be stripping that advice of its legal protection, permanently. This is not a hypothetical. The risk is real, and it is already happening. What the Court Actually Said In a recent New York federal case, a person under federal investigation used a public AI tool to create strategy documents about his legal situation. He fed in information from his lawyers and then shared the AI’s output back with his attorneys. When federal agents seized his devices, he argued that those AI convers...