Georgia firms apply ABA Op. 512 to Georgia RPC 1.5 while the State Bar's Formal Advisory Opinion develops.

Georgia practitioners apply ABA Formal Opinion 512 to Georgia Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5 (Fees). The State Bar of Georgia's Formal Advisory Opinion process is publicly tracked through the Office of the General Counsel; firms watch FAO drafts as they advance through the development cycle. As of May 2026, no Georgia-specific opinion on lawyers' use of generative AI has been published.

The operational consequence. Until a Georgia-specific opinion lands, the pillar's clause library applies unchanged. Georgia-domiciled firms inherit the ABA Op. 512 framework: informed consent for self-learning third-party tools that touch confidences, overhead-or-charge fee treatment under Rule 1.5, and the standard pre-bill documentation pack. The Georgia overlay is procedural — it routes the firm into the freshness loop so that any Formal Advisory Opinion development is folded into the engagement-letter language pack on publication.

What changes when the FAO publishes. If the State Bar of Georgia adopts a Formal Advisory Opinion that goes beyond Op. 512 — for example, by raising the consent floor, restricting AI cost pass-through, or imposing a chatbot-disclosure rule — the freshness loop captures the diff and the pillar clause library is amended for Georgia-licensed matters. Until then, the Georgia row of the overlay table reads as parity with Op. 512.