News, analysis and opinion pieces on use cases published on AGENTE LEX.
Guide 2 of the Spanish artificial intelligence sandbox explains the Regulation through five high-risk use cases. Some, such as staff promotion or evaluating evidence in criminal investigations, bear directly on the work of employment and criminal law firms.
Since June 2024, the Justice Administration has had a policy on the use of artificial intelligence. We review what it allows, what it forbids and the tools the Ministry of Justice describes as already under way, from transcription of recordings to draft decisions reviewed by the judge.
The Spanish Data Protection Agency has published how it uses generative artificial intelligence in its own processes. Its documents are not a rule for firms, but they are a practical reference from the supervisory authority on prompts, personal data, human review and hiring suppliers.
In May 2026 the Advisory Council on Innovation and the Legal Profession of the Spanish Legal Profession published ten principles for the safe and responsible use of artificial intelligence. We summarise them and suggest how to turn them into concrete firm practices.
The Constitutional Court and the higher courts of Navarre and the Canary Islands have already ruled on filings citing judgments that do not exist. The responses range from a warning or closing the matter to a fine, and all share one idea: whoever signs is responsible.
