About the Provider
Decentralized Publishing LLC built Ethics-Safe AI Use for Law Firms as the practitioner course we couldn't find — a vendor-neutral guide to AI ethics grounded in the Model Rules, California guidance, and real disciplinary case law.
Our Mission
A Practitioner's Guide to AI Ethics — Not a Vendor Pitch
We built the course we couldn't find — a practitioner's guide to AI ethics grounded in the Model Rules, California-specific guidance, and real case law. No vendor pitches. No theory. Just what California attorneys need to know to use AI without losing their license.
Most CLE on AI in legal practice is either (a) too abstract — survey lectures on what AI is, with no doctrinal anchor — or (b) too commercial — vendor decks dressed up as ethics training. Neither is useful to a California attorney who has to make a decision next week about whether to put a privileged document into a chatbot, how to write a firm AI policy, or whether they need to disclose AI use to a tribunal.
This course is built differently. Every module starts with a specific Model Rule or California State Bar guidance pronouncement and asks: what does this require, what does the case law show happens when attorneys get it wrong, and what does compliance look like in practice? The five-category hallucination taxonomy, the Mata Protocol verification workflow, and the Five Artifacts test for firm-level compliance are the practical tools that emerge from that framework.
The course is vendor-neutral. It applies whether you use a general-purpose chatbot, a vertical legal AI tool, or no AI tool at all and just want to understand the supervisory duty when others in your firm do.
The Course at a Glance
Published by Decentralized Publishing LLC
California MCLE accreditation pending
What's Different
A Course Designed for California Attorneys, Not the Vendor Market
The framework comes from the rules and case law, not from any AI vendor's marketing department.
Anchored to ABA Op. 512
Every module maps to a section of the ABA's first formal opinion on generative AI use by attorneys, issued July 2024 — the foundational federal-level ethics framework.
California-Specific
Built on the California State Bar's November 2023 Practical Guidance on Generative AI — not a generic national framework adapted for California.
Real Sanctions Case Law
Mata v. Avianca, 678 F. Supp. 3d 443 (S.D.N.Y. 2023). Park v. Kim. And the continuing stream of sanctions orders that followed. The framework is tested against what actually happens to attorneys who get it wrong.
Vendor-Neutral
Applies whether your firm uses a general-purpose chatbot, a vertical legal AI tool, or no AI tool at all and just wants to understand the supervisory duty when others do.
Practical Artifacts
The Companion Templates bundle includes the firm AI policy, vendor questionnaire, client disclosure language, and intake flags — editable templates a managing partner can deploy.
Practitioner-Built
Authored by Christian Kameir, who builds and operates a production legal AI platform. California counsel of record is Rahul Gupta, Esq., an active California trial attorney in Newport Beach.
The Author
Christian Kameir
Christian Kameir is a law graduate of the University of Muenster, Germany, and Managing Member of Decentralized Publishing LLC. He is the author of Ethics-Safe AI Use for Law Firms (Decentralized Publishing LLC, 2025) and the developer and operator of a production legal AI platform used in legal practice.
Kameir's approach to the ethics of AI use in legal practice is deliberately practitioner-side: every framework in the course has been pressure-tested against the real workflows of firms using AI tools today. Rather than starting from what AI could do, the course starts from what attorneys are actually being sanctioned for — and works backward to the supervisory, verification, and policy steps that would have prevented it.
Kameir is not admitted to practice law in California or any U.S. jurisdiction. His role is course author and subject matter expert. California counsel of record for this course is Rahul Gupta, Esq. (CA Bar 222234), an active California trial attorney in Newport Beach who also delivers the live in-person version of the course.
The company — Decentralized Publishing LLC — exists to publish practitioner-grade legal education materials, beginning with this course on AI ethics. The intent is to grow the catalog with adjacent practitioner courses over time, all built on the same principle: rules and case law first, vendor agnosticism throughout.
Accreditation Status
Decentralized Publishing LLC offers this course exclusively to California-licensed attorneys at this time. Attorneys in other jurisdictions who wish to use the course materials for their own self-directed study or for reciprocity-based credit should consult their state bar.