Now that I’ve gotten you hooked with the salacious title to the post, I’ll hit you with the boring content. Among all the discussion that has transpired over who folks are calling the ChatGPT lawyers, who I wrote a bit about earlier this month, there has not been any real focus on who was the […]
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505 and 506 are not the ABA’s best.
So, for a variety of reasons, I’ve stewed over whether to write anything about what (before yesterday) was the most recent ABA Formal Ethics Opinion to be issued. That opinion was ABA Formal Op. 505 and presents itself as an opinion on, among other things, whether the ABA Model Rules permit the charging of any […]
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Use the right tool for the job.
If you need a very short version of everything I am about to write, it would go a little something like this. Don’t use a calculator to try to determine whether you have spelled a word correctly. If you do that, don’t blame the calculator because you are the problem. Even though it all transpired […]
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A Penny for My Thoughts
Someone last week reached out on Twitter and wanted my thoughts on the crowdfunding effort launched by a New York law firm to raise money for the legal defense of Daniel Penny. Thought #1 — not unique to me as I’ve seen others say the same thing — very few things indicate how bad things […]
A quick and also rare weekend post because I’ve been tied up a bit and am about to be tied up again and unable to post for a week or so. I’ve sallied forth at length here about what I see to be pretty disingenuous attacks based on First Amendment arguments against adopting ABA Model […]
Like a movie sequel coming out 10 years later, here comes part two of that promised two-part post. (Can you even really call something a two-part post if the second part doesn’t come along until 10 days later?) The second draft Formal Ethics Opinion put out for public comment by the Board of Professional Responsibility […]
It’s getting a bit commonplace now, isn’t it? You go years without doing a two-part blogpost and then you do another one the same week? Kind of takes all the excitement out of the idea of a two-part post, doesn’t it? Sure. But in my defense, the Tennessee BPR went roughly 3 years before issuing […]
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“No extensions” – Part 2
So, I know I promised part two of this two-part blog epic would come out today, but things have come up and so I’m going to have to ask you for a little patience and an extension of a few days to deliver. I’m just joking, of course. I know that you won’t be granting […]
Let’s talk about this week’s big legal news. No, not that. No, also not that. Okay, in the interest of accuracy, I should say let’s talk about something that was big legal news this week within some circles and has an easy hook into discussing attorney ethics rules. Yes, you’ve now guessed it – the […]
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Bard, J. (confusing)
So, writing about the advancements in AI is all the rage right now. And that isn’t surprising because the developments have been coming pretty quickly in 2023 starting with (I think starting with) Open AI rolling out a Chat GPT-3 and all the discussion and the oohing and the aahing and then it within weeks […]