Category: Ethics
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My Solution to Secure Transcription for Attorneys: Why I Won’t Recommend the Popular Tools
If you have been looking for a secure transcription solution for client meetings, you have probably noticed that the options are not great. I have been researching this question for a client and I cannot recommend any of the standalone transcription tools currently on the…
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Claude AI Privilege Waiver: What U.S. v. Heppner Means for Your Clients
Download a Sample Client AI Confidentiality Notice Every few months we see a headline suggesting that artificial intelligence has upended some settled area of law. It usually hasn’t. More often, a court simply applies existing doctrine to a new tool and reaches the same result…
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Moltbook, AI Agents, and What Lawyers Actually Owe Clients
Over the past several weeks, a familiar cycle has played out in the technology press. Headlines claim that “AI agents” have created their own social media network, are chatting with one another, forming religions, and, in some versions of the story, even contemplating humanity’s fate.…
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When AI Hallucinations Meet the Courtroom: How One Lawyer’s Repeated Failures Led to Default Judgment
The Case of Flycatcher v. Affable I must admit that despite my fondness for covering artificial intelligence, and the fact I use AI to help me craft my posts, even I am having trouble keeping up with the number of lawyers getting in trouble for…
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Practical Guidance for Ethically Changing Law Firms
Download Checklist for Ethically Changing Law Firms Most of us will change employers at some point or another during our legal careers. Unlike many types of jobs, lawyers have numerous ethical considerations that come with moving from one firm to another. Our obligations require us…
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When Your Cloud Provider Reports Client Data
18 U.S.C. § 2258A, The REPORT Act, and a Problem Most Lawyers Haven’t Thought About A Confession First I’m going to start with a confession. Until recently, I had not spent much time thinking about 18 U.S.C. § 2258A. If you’re a lawyer who generally keeps…
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Bad Review, Bad Response, Bad Idea
What Lawyers Need to Understand About Online Reviews, Ethics, and Real-World Risk Bad reviews happen. Sometimes fairly. Sometimes unfairly. Sometimes from people who were never your clients at all. What gets lawyers into ethical trouble is not usually the review. It is the response. I…
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How Many Lawyers Have Gotten in Trouble Because of AI Hallucinations? A Lot
Damien Charlotin, a senior research fellow from Paris, focuses his research on artificial intelligence in the law. As part of his work, which includes a lecturer on legal data analysis, he created a database that tracks, “legal decisions in cases where generative AI produced hallucinated…