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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…