With recreational use of marijuana legal in nine states and the District of Columbia and medical use legal in 29 states, cannabis has emerged from the counterculture to become a mainstream industry. And where there is an industry, there is the need for lawyers to serve that industry.
Cannabis law is an increasingly competitive field.…
Blogging takes time. There’s no two ways about it. It takes time to come up with ideas for posts, to research the ideas, and to write the posts. For busy legal professionals, time may be the single-greatest obstacle to blogging, or at least to blogging regularly.
A new application aims to make it easier for…
Recently, I wrote about a new report from the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (both on this blog and on Above the Law) that recommends loosening rules on attorneys’ participation in for-profit referral services such as Avvo Legal Services.
Now, in the latest episode of our legal-affairs podcast…
Most judges in a survey say that they see lawyers miss relevant precedent in their legal research and that those missing cases have impacted the outcome of a motion or proceeding.
The legal research company Casetext surveyed 66 federal and 43 state judges to learn whether missing precedent over affects the outcome of a…
The annual Connecticut Legal Conference takes place Monday, June 11.
I will be speaking on The Ethical Duty of Technology Competence: What It Means to Your Practice. My program is 1:45- 2:45 p.m. ET.
If you are attending, I hope to see you there.…
The legal research company Casemaker has quietly changed its leadership, as long-time CEO David Harriman retired in January and two legal publishing veterans were named to oversee the company.
Taking over as chief operating officer is Sarah Gorman, who has worked in legal publishing for more than 30 years. Gorman, who was named COO…
Over the nearly 16 years of this blog’s existence, it had just two homes. When I launched it in 2002, I published it on an early version of Google’s Blogger that supported hosting on non-Google servers. But in 2010, after Blogger decided to discontinue support for externally hosted blogs, I moved the blog to Justia,…
Thomson Reuters today announced the appointment of co-chief operating officers to lead its legal and tax and accounting businesses and the departure of Susan Taylor Martin as president of the legal business.
Brian Peccarelli
Effective July 1, Brian Peccarelli, president of Tax & Accounting, will become co-COO with responsibility for customer markets.…
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission this week published for comment its report that recommends loosening rules on attorneys’ participation in for-profit referral services such as Avvo Legal Services.
Loosening of the rules would help Illinois address the unmet legal needs of poor and moderate-income individuals in the state, the study…
Tomorrow, I will be at the ABA National Conference on Professional Responsibility in Louisville, Ky., where I will be moderating the plenary session, “Ethics Issues in Lawyers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence.”
Here is the program description:
…If machine capabilities allow us to diminish, or even remove, human participation from some tasks traditionally involved in
Lawyers and predictive coding are like kids around the swimming hole — no one wants to be the first to dive in for fear the water is cold or it harbors scary creatures. But once someone takes the lead, dives in and declares the water fine, everyone else is quick to follow.
That is why…
Howard Bashman at How Appealing points to Saturday’s Wall Street Journal article noting the 10th anniversary of the birth of blogging:
“We are approaching a decade since the first blogger — regarded by many to be Jorn Barger — began his business of hunting and gathering links to items that tickled his fancy, to which he…
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