Boston Bar Association
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.18.20
* A special prosecutor appointed in the Jussie Smollett case found that the prosecutor’s office abused its discretion in overseeing the matter. [Wall Street Journal]
* A Texas lawyer is being sued for allegedly leading clients to a failed real estate investment with which the attorney had an undisclosed interest. [Texas Lawyer]
* The Boston Bar Association is urging Attorney General Barr not to pursue the death penalty for the Boston Marathon bomber. [Boston Globe]
* Apparently it’s not libelous to tell a lawyer that he “needs to go back to law school.” Maybe this is because lawyers learn very little about how to be practicing attorneys in law school… [Volokh Conspiracy]
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Conferences / Symposia, Technology
Mixing Work With Play: Baseball And CLE
Baseball and continuing legal education -- what's not to like? - Sponsored
Generative AI In Legal Work — What’s Fact And What’s Fiction?
Zach Warren from the Thomson Reuters Institute discusses the potential and the pitfalls. -
Law Schools, Lawyer Advertising
That Time The Boston Bar Association Denounced Me
The Boston Bar Association is cross that I made fun of Suffolk Law's new ads comparing them to Yale, Harvard, and Columbia.