Legal Ethics
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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…
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FUBAR (Also Known As ‘What Were They Thinking?’)
Does ChatGPT dream of electric chutzpah?
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If You Aren’t The One Writing Your Briefs In Texas, It Better Be Some Other Human!
You know, someone should have felt like something was up when the filing opened up with Lorem ipsum.
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Don’t Blame ChatGPT For Bad Lawyering
Generative AI isn’t the one who filed that affirmation with the court, so stop bagging on it.
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Harvey Not-So Marvy, Booze Lose, Fox Shox
And, of course, the latest from Trump World!
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Missing out on a whole 100 documents worth of time!
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Ethics And AI For Corporate Counsel
Corporate counsels should take a proactive approach to understand the legal risks associated with AI.
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ABA Ethics Panel Tackles The Weighty Issue Of ‘Reply All’ Emails
‘Forward the email or text to the client separately,’ the ABA advises.
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Fake Lawyer Gives Fake Lawyers A Bad Name
Not being a lawyer doesn’t make someone a scam artist.
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