We are fewer than three weeks into 2026, and it appears that the grave problems impacting the rule of law are only proceeding apace for another year. Trying to come up with something to say so far this month here at the blog has felt difficult. Who wants to hear me continue to scream into […]
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The importance of knowing how things work
I could have titled this post: “In case you needed another reason not to use LinkedIn,” but that wouldn’t be fair. No one actually needs any additional reasons not to use that platform. The “grindset mindset,” AI groupies, and other toxic personalities you can find there daily provide more than sufficient reason to let reasonable […]
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Gee, AI isn’t getting any better.
Stop me if you are shocked to hear it, but the legal profession won’t stop trying to tout AI and GAI in particular as something that absolutely has to be enmeshed into all aspects of a lawyer’s practice. But here’s the thing, there continues to be a lot of things that GAI simply isn’t useful […]
While lots of ethics discussions and regulatory efforts have been focusing on more advanced technology like Generative AI, Pennsylvania has been laser-focused on making it unethical for lawyers to use text messages as a means of soliciting clients in more ways than one. In October 2024, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted revisions to its RPC […]
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Another GAI ethics opinion & more
Among the topics I have been regularly addressing in presentations during 2024, including here at the end of year rush for CLE credits, has been the ethics issues associated with the rise of Generative AI. The core presentation I have done now almost 10 times has been a constant evolutionary process as things have rapidly […]
It has somehow been a minute since I’ve written any updates on anything in the world of Generative AI issues. That hasn’t, of course, been because things haven’t been happening. They have. And even today I found myself as part of yet another panel presentation on the ethics issues surrounding the rise of the use […]
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New York States of Mind
Let’s end 2023 on a high note, shall we? Governor Hochul must be high. She just vetoed a bill that would have finally ended New York’s requirement that New York lawyers have to have an office in New York. Yes, you heard that right. Despite all of the talk in the legal profession of the […]
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Fifth Shortcircuit on AI?
It is very hard to get very far in any sort of “end of year” evaluation of legal ethics questions without talking about the rise of generative AI, how to use it ethically, and what its rapid (and continuing) development will mean for the practice of law. I’ve written earlier this year about the unfortunate […]
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♫ Everybody Saudi Sun Tonight ♫
I promise at some point I will write something not about a lawyer getting sanctioned by courts, but it won’t be today. Today’s post is prompted by a ruling of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals dropping a (potentially more than $250,000) sanctions hammer on a lawyer and referring that lawyer to the bar for […]
I know from years of representing lawyers that when you are facing sanctions against you it is awful difficult to spend much time thinking about things other than what is going to happen to you. So, although there are a lot more important things going on in the world right now, today’s content is just […]