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 it would have reached twenty years ago with email, Google, […]
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. The platform at the center of much of this attention […]
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 hallucinated cases. I knew I hadn’t seen everything yet, but […]
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 to take certain steps to protect the impacted clients during […]
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 up with tech and ethics issues and you’re thinking, “Same,” […]
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 see the same pattern repeatedly. A lawyer feels misrepresented or […]
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 content – typically fake citations, but also other types of […]
Sample Artificial Intelligence Clauses for Attorney Engagement Agreements
Today, I am teaching a webinar on artificial intelligence today and my focus is ethics. A number of audience members asked for sample clauses for revealing artificial intelligence use in their engagement agreements. Here are a few that attorneys may use freely. Many firms are now asking whether they should include AI disclaimers or disclosures […]