Podcast - Respect in the Courtroom
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 518: Will Past Poor Decisions Derail Your Legal Career? (w/Susan Stone and Kristina Supler)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 190: Listen and Learn -- Exceptions to Confidentiality (Professional Responsibility)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 179: Listen and Learn -- Professional Responsibility: Competence
Podcast - The Extreme Case
Most lawyers learn about the “mailbox rule” in their first-year contracts course. And whether a lawyer’s practice is focused on litigation or transactions, lawyers frequently face deadlines that can be met based on when an...more
As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in legal workflows, managing partners and in-house legal leaders must confront a critical threshold issue: whether legal advice created with the assistance of AI is...more
The Texas attorney immunity doctrine is a defense that generally insulates attorneys from being sued by non-clients for legal work the attorney performed within the scope of representing a client....more
A recent Massachusetts Superior Court decision provides a cautionary tale for attorneys: you cannot take advantage of a drafting mistake by the opposing party. In Cahoon Capital Strategic Income Fund, LLC v. Ross, et...more
Disclosure is still one of the quickest ways for a commercial dispute to become slow and expensive. Generative AI (GenAI) has landed in that reality. It is no longer a speculative future tool, but something already being...more
In Formal Opinion 2025-100, the Pennsylvania Bar Association Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility emphasizes the importance of written fee arrangements. The recent Opinion clarifies the minimum...more
Last year, we reported on a California State Bar initiative to expunge attorney discipline records, other than disbarment, after eight years. See Legal Updates for Lawyers’ Professional Liability – February 2025. The proposed...more
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence now offers a powerful upside for high-level legal work. Since the widespread availability of generative AI, legal scholars, technologists, and product developers have...more
No – there is a risk that the court would treat that advice as published to the world and it may amount to a breach of any applicable regulatory duties. In practice, doing so may only amount to a theoretical rather than...more
If 2024 was the year of artificial intelligence (AI) hype, 2025 was the year of AI accountability. The legal landscape shifted from theoretical debates to concrete enforcement actions and compliance deadlines. Organizations...more
In this episode of "The Trial Lawyer's Handbook" podcast series, litigation attorney Dan Small uses the white collar corruption case of U.S. v. Rendle and his experience before the famously pro-defense Judge Joseph Tauro to...more
The legal profession has a departure problem. Partners backstab on the way out. Associates ghost their firms. Firms retaliate against people who dare to leave. Non-competes get weaponized. Deals get made and broken before the...more
The fastest way to lose credibility is to treat your first thought as your final answer. You’re in a meeting, someone asks a complex question, and your brain immediately serves up a response. It feels right. It sounds...more
Yes, in certain circumstances. - What is the legal position? - Absent a test case or legislative reform, the existing legal framework could protect privilege in communications created by, or with the assistance of,...more
On Dec. 11th, the Superior Court released its long-awaited opinion in Poteat v. Asteak regarding the applicability of the gist of the action doctrine in legal malpractice matters, holding it does not apply and essentially...more
Yes – our view is that, in the context of privilege, AI Systems should be treated like a “subordinate” of the lawyer, much like a trainee solicitor, pupil barrister, or paralegal working under the “direction and supervision”...more
At Robins Kaplan’s annual Fiduciary and Wealth Disputes Seminar “What Keeps Fiduciaries Up At Night?” attendees heard from John Taft, Vice Chair at Baird and a 40-year veteran of the financial services industry....more
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way lawyers work. For litigators, the attraction is clear: faster review, sharper analysis and definitive cost saving. Yet with these opportunities come a sharper risk – that...more
Whether you are in-house, outside counsel, a solo practitioner, or working alongside any of these teams, you should be aware of the duty to use artificial intelligence (AI) responsibly, ethically, and in compliance with the...more
The senior partner sat in his office late on a Thursday evening, staring at a motion filed by opposing counsel. They had identified contradictions across seventeen depositions—patterns his 40-person review team had missed...more
Kilpatrick’s Chris Bussert recently joined a panel discussing “Ethical Considerations in IP Investigations: Balancing Effectiveness and Integrity” at the 2025 INTA Leadership Meeting. The panel examined ethical challenges...more
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly influencing the legal profession and remains a hot topic for attorneys and the courts. AI has proven useful for everything from routine administrative tasks to case-analysis summaries. It...more
The Bar Council's November 2025 note on generative AI is an evolution of its original January 2024 paper rather than a wholesale rewrite. The revised document, developed by the Bar Council's IT Panel with input from its...more
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become prevalent in nearly every sector of society, and the practice of law is no exception. However, as with other technological innovations, the rapid development and refinement...more
They’re back! Ethics lawyers Lucian Pera and Trisha Rich team up again this December to bring you their incisive take on the most important and interesting ethics and lawyering developments of the year....more