Legal Ethics
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New Legal Ethics Opinion Cautions Lawyers: You ‘Must Be Proficient’ In The Use Of Generative AI
While the opinion is focused on AI, it repeatedly emphasizes that a lawyer’s ethical obligations surrounding this emerging form of technology are no different than those for any form of technology.
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Lawyer Facing Ethics Probe Decides Maybe Destroying His Computer Will Help. It Does Not.
Oh, look! The consequences of my own actions.
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Elon Musk’s Attorney Responds To Sanctions Motion Over Messy Deposition
These actions may not be sanctionable, but nothing about this is helping Musk’s case.
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The Ethics Of Legal Software: Beyond Compliance
The ethical path respects the unique value of human judgment, empathy, and experience in the legal process.
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Lawyers Still Haven’t Learned ChatGPT Just Isn’t For Them
It isn’t meant for legal research.
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More Ethics Guidance Arrives Amid Rapid Releases Of Legal AI
Taking steps to maintain your ethical duty of technology competence is more important than ever.
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Lawyer Sanctioned For Trying To File A Fake News Article As An Exhibit
This isn’t a story about lawyers using ChatGPT… but it could be.
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Hard to see how the attorney-client privilege gets involved in citing fake cases.
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AI Ethics Guidance Arrives Amid Rapid Legaltech Deployments
The legal industry is at a crossroads, and regardless of the path chosen, things may never be quite the same.
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Balancing Legal Ethics With Rapid AI Innovation
The promised efficiency gains offered by these tools come with their own set of challenges, including doubts over result accuracy and concerns about client confidentiality.
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This sure sounds like another lawyer caught using ChatGPT to make up caselaw.
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And don’t type anything you don’t want the world to know about while using Zoom either.
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* Lawyers don’t understand lawyer talk either. [Scientific American]
* While Elon Musk merely whines about Facebook, he actually filed a suit against Wachtell for the $90 million in fees the firm generated whipping Elon in the first place. Now, if he can just get back that $90 million… and then another $30 billion he’d be back where he started. [Law360]
* Law firm mergers aren’t crossing borders as much anymore, which is a pity since merging presents sort of an existential crisis for UK firms. [American Lawyer]
* Sarah Silverman sues AI developers for training on copyrighted material. Defense likely to argue “yeah, but our output still sort of sucks so there’s no harm.” [Reuters]
* Private credit on the rise as core Biglaw practice area, so remember this when the economy collapses in 10 years and everyone cites “private credit.” [Bloomberg Law News]
* “Testi-lied” is super clever! Also super gonna get you censured. [ABA Journal]
* Florida will stop recognizing certain state IDs. In case you needed a “full faith and credit” hypo for your exam. [Yahoo]
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Butt-Dial Ends In Clerk’s Ouster
Maybe take a second after hanging up to curse about the judge’s decision.
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Stop Calling It A ‘Slap On The Wrist’ Just Because The Media Hyped It Up More Than It Deserved
From Hunter Biden to the ChatGPT lawyers, when media deploy the phrase ‘slap on the wrist,’ prepare to take several grains of salt.
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ChatGPT Lawyers Get Slap On The Wrist From Court. But Infamy Is Forever.
You can keep beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride.
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Lawyer Figures Out ChatGPT Made Up Fake Cases In His Brief On Day Of Hearing
Would’ve been nice to catch this a little earlier…