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A judge in a recent US case wrote, "the practice of law is not just a job, it is a profession; a profession with standards and ethical responsibilities." With the use of generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) becoming the norm in a lawyer’s professional life, those standards and ethical responsibilities face renewed scrutiny.

The start of 2025 has seen the introduction of the new arbitration rules for the Qatar International Center for Conciliation and Arbitration (“QICCA”). The new rules, entitled the ‘Arbitration Rules 2024’, reflect the changing world of dispute resolution, and the rules are nearly double in length to the 2012 rules reflecting the QICCA’s understanding that arbitration is a competitive environment, and that institutional bodies need to adapt to meet the end-users’ needs. The 2024 rules are a considerable improvement, offering new regimes of expedited and emergency procedures, and transparency on third-party funding, making dispute resolution more accessible and user-friendly. We detail some of the more significant changes below.