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This blog considers some of the ethical issues of competence that arise when a lawyer or law firm uses generative AI to assist in rendering services. Prior to the advent of artificial...

Centaurs are mythological creatures with a human’s upper body, and a horse’s lower body. They symbolize a union of human intellect and animal strength. In AI technology, Centaurs refers...

The American Bar Association recently issued a Formal Ethics Opinion addressing the ethics of attorney office sharing arrangements. In Formal Opinion 507, issued on July 12, 2023, the...

The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate.

With AI use on the rise, judges across the country are updating their standing orders to address how the technology may (or may not) be used in their courtrooms. As rules regarding AI...

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on Feb. 7, 2024, issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) proposing a new nationwide reporting...

Long ago, when my wife, Patricia, and I were looking for a house, we abandoned the term “master bedroom” in favor of “main bedroom.” Bloomberg Law reports that: The American Bar...

Many attorneys have long and successful careers without ever having to practice law outside of the jurisdiction where they obtained their license. But for litigators and in-house...

In an age when nearly everyone carries on their person a tiny recording device in the form of a smartphone, the question of whether it is lawful to surreptitiously record conversations...

Lawyers are members of a learned and honorable profession, subject to legal ethics rules, and encouraged to be civil as they practice their craft. These fundamental concepts—legal...