Were you looking for something that is very well-written but entirely unhelpful to your needs as a lawyer? Well, you’ve come to the right place today. Wait, I now see how that paragraph could be misconstrued in an entirely unflattering way and as an inadvertent passing of judgment on this whole blog. Obviously, I didn’t […]
Tag: Practice of Law
So, this week’s biggest news in terms of the role of artificial intelligence in the practice of law is the rollout of a new, free AI product from ROSS Intelligence. The product is called EVA, and you can read all about it here. The short version of it is that when the other side files […]
Sometimes titles for posts are tough to come up with, sometimes they are far too easy. This is one of the latter and is offered both with a spirit of tongue-in-cheek silliness and because it is a truly perfect seven-word summary of a recent disciplinary case of note. It is, of note, at least for […]
Nothing like the day after a holiday weekend to pose a difficult, potentially controversial, question, right? But when the holiday weekend in question is one to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this particular question is certainly topical. This is a post I have had rattling around inside of my […]
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Status quo prevails. A Tennessee update
I am still Roadshowing this week, among other things, so I will again offer some content but with a caveat about its brevity. (And, again, if you are sitting in a highly-entertained crowd looking for the embedded Spotify playlist just keep scrolling and you’ll find it.) In the before time, the long, long-ago at this […]
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RPC 8.4(g) – Tennessee is in play
I’m pleased to report that, yesterday, a joint petition was filed by the Tennessee Bar Association and the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility asking the Tennessee Supreme Court to adopt an RPC 8.4(g) patterned after the ABA Model Rule. As I’ve written here in the past, I’ve long been hopeful (not necessarily optimistic but certainly […]
(I’ve apologized once before for a Bullwinkle-style title and here I am doing it again. The underlying societal issues are not funny in the least but it’s been a hard week for many folks and a little bit of levity can help you make it through.) If you are inclined to read this blog from […]
Recently (and one of the frustrations I have with this opinion I am now writing about is, that “recently” is about as specific as I can pin things down in terms of the date of issuance), the Board of Professional Responsibility in Tennessee issued a Formal Ethics Opinion giving some guidance on the ability of […]
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Perfect timing.
(Edited – Dec. 8, 2017 to fix very embarrassing mistakes as to the company name of Atrium.) On the heels of my posting earlier this week about my failure to understand how the Atrium law firm backed by the Atrium tech company is something that complies with California’s ethics rules (much less ethics rules in […]
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Things I don’t understand… Atrium LLP
You may, by now, have read an article or two about the launch of a “technology-focused law firm” by the name of Atrium LLP. Its headquarters are in California. Having now read several articles about it – and how it has come to be and how it will operate – I simply don’t understand it. […]