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Ary Rosenbaum - The Rosenbaum Law Firm P.C.

Speak Up, or Prepare to Be Stepped On (and Possibly Assigned to Kiddush Duty… Again)

There’s a hard truth in life, and I learned it the long, slow, and silent way: if you don’t speak up for yourself, you’ll be passed over, stepped on, and probably volunteered to clean up after someone else’s kugel spill....more

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What Is Ambient AI and Why Does It Matter to Lawyers and Legal Professionals?

Let’s take a few minutes to step back and look at the broader picture to see where AI is headed. Artificial intelligence isn’t just logging into ChatGPT or other LLMs to prompt them so they can provide intelligent output that...more

Akerman LLP

The AI Legal Landscape in 2025: Beyond the Hype

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The conversation around AI in legal practice has fundamentally shifted. We're no longer debating if AI will transform legal work, but how we implement it effectively. After 25 years navigating the intersection of law and...more

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The Convergence Point: Where Legal Expertise Meets AI Architecture

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AI promises to transform legal practice. That's both true and incomplete. After 25 years leading technology transactions and building software solutions, I've concluded that the most powerful transformation happens not when...more

Compliance and Ethics: Ideas & Answers

Learning about Learning Together: What Real-Time Benchmarking at PLI Tells Us About Training

One of the more valuable (and perhaps underrated) features of compliance and ethics conferences is the opportunity they create for real-time benchmarking. ...more

Jaburg Wilk

Every Experience is an Audition for Your Future

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As an attorney, I often focus on the immediate task at hand – reviewing the revised document from opposing counsel, the brief due next week, the client meeting tomorrow, or the upcoming deposition. Over time I’ve learned that...more

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Law Firms Must Prioritize Hiring for Curiosity and Work Ethic in the AI Era

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In today's rapidly evolving legal landscape, artificial intelligence is democratizing execution across the profession. As routine tasks become automated, the qualities that differentiate exceptional legal professionals are...more

IR Global

The Legal AI Adoption Curve: Where Your Law Firm Stands

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It’s a question you’ve likely been grappling with more and more lately as you hear about your peers adopting AI: Where does your firm stand on legal AI adoption? AI is rapidly transforming legal work, with new AI solutions...more

Kilpatrick

4 Key Takeaways | Professionalism Panel: Views from the Bench and Bar

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Kilpatrick recently hosted the annual “Susan A. Cahoon Annual Ethics & Professionalism Seminar.” The firm’s Associate General Counsel Betsy Hodges moderated a panel discussion on professionalism titled “Views from the Bench...more

Carr Maloney P.C.

Nonrefundable Advanced Legal Fees are Per Se Unethical Under the Proposed New Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5(g)

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At its March 1, 2025, meeting, the VSB Council voted to approve changes to Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5. The proposed amendment to the Rule includes a new subjection (g), which codifies an understanding that has been...more

Charles E. Rounds, Jr. - Suffolk University...

When Hostilities Break Out Between Co-trustees, Where Does That Leave Trust Counsel?

When hostilities break out between individual co-trustees, incumbent trust counsel faces a representation conundrum. In §8.8 of Loring and Rounds: A Trustee’s Handbook (2025), see appendix below, we grapple with the...more

Jaburg Wilk

In Life and Business Compromise is a Hard Truth Worth Embracing

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After years of practicing law, I’ve learned one immutable truth: compromise isn’t just a strategy, it is what keeps deals and relationships alive. Every day, I watch business owners and leaders who think they can strong-arm...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Legal Ethics: A More Civil Way to Practice Law

My new favorite judge is The Honorable R. David Proctor, chief U.S. district judge for the Northern District of Alabama. I love his Nov. 26, 2024 order granting an Opposed Motion Extension of Time to respond to a complaint....more

Conn Kavanaugh

Unraveling the AI Revolution

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The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (“AI”) is reshaping industries, transforming economies, and presenting profound legal and ethical challenges....more

ArentFox Schiff

AI in Family Offices: Navigating the AI Frontier in Wealth Management and Fiduciary Liability

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has made waves across various industries, and wealth management is no exception. AI’s ability to analyze vast amounts of data and generate insightful reports has the potential to significantly...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

Litigators Weigh Need to Disclose AI Use to Clients

Many lawyers today are wrestling with the question of whether they should inform clients that artificial intelligence technologies are being used on their case matters. Ethical advice from state bar regulators has been slowly...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

Do You Take the Case?

The phone rings. The voice on the other end asks you to take the case. The fee is great. You feel for the potential client. The subject is interesting but outside your expertise. What do you do? Originally published in The...more

Goodell, DeVries, Leech & Dann, LLP

The Ethics of Limited Scope Engagements

A new client calls. She is a healthcare provider. She has gotten a letter from the licensing board. She needs assistance preparing an initial response and representation at the board interview. She’s convinced the complaint...more

U.S. Legal Support

A Guide to Legal & Litigation Support Service Outsourcing

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The pandemic caused a wave of disruption throughout the legal system in 2020, and the ricocheting effects are still felt today. Initially, there was a substantial backlog of cases causing court dates to be continually pushed...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

AI in Law Practice Commanded Attention in 2023

Who would have thought that a profession not widely associated with tech savvy would be consumed with interest in artificial intelligence technologies in 2023? Yet that was certainly the case, as readership numbers for...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Update on the ChatGPT Case: Counsel Who Submitted Fake Cases Are Sanctioned

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We previously wrote about the widely-publicized Southern District of New York case involving lawyers who submitted papers citing non-existent cases generated by the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT, Mata v. Avianca,...more

Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.

The Ethical Challenges of AI-Assisted Legal Practice: Lawyers and ChatGPT

Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is not entirely foreign to the legal profession. AI-powered legal research databases, eDiscovery automation, and juror intelligence services are just a few examples of how lawyers have engaged...more

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC

State Legislatures Appear Keen to Regulate Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the legal profession through its ability to uncover information and insights hidden in large amounts of data. Already today we have: On the other hand, the potential for...more

Jaburg Wilk

Talk Less and Listen More

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I read somewhere when you are speaking with someone you should imagine them wearing a hat that says “Make me interesting.” The point is to ask questions that allows the other person to speak because the more someone speaks...more

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A Look at ABA Ethics Opinion 498 and What it Means for Your Firm

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic began approximately a year ago, millions of lawyers across the United States very quickly went from working in an office to working elsewhere. Home, a home office, a spare bedroom, their dining...more

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