What lawyers need to know about GEO and AI
GEO (generative engine optimization) and hidden AI are not just marketing trends or digital concepts. They also pose potential ethics issues that lawyers are overlooking. Read more @ thetechsavvylawyer.page
Federal circuit imposes steep sanctions on lawyers for faulty filings
The appeals court says judges themselves are also victimized when filings contain hallucinated citations. Read more @ lawnext.com
Legal Ethics: New ABA opinion seeks to clarify lawyers’ duties when they withdraw from cases
Legal Ethics: New ABA opinion seeks to clarify lawyers’ duties when they withdraw from cases By Jim Doppke In my time as a disciplinary prosecutor, I reviewed grievances from clients [...]
What lawyers should do when hallucinations turn up in their filings
Experience is showing that even the savviest practitioners and firms are not immune to having AI-generated ghosts get into their formal filings. Read more @ thetechsavvylawyer.page/blog/
AI training is becoming mandatory – but lawyers still get burned
The contrast couldn’t be starker: Law students are being taught the rules of AI use while some practicing lawyers are still struggling to understand them. Read more @ attorneyatwork.com
Lawyers dinged for failing to detect opponent’s hallucinated citations
Do lawyers have a duty to report fake citations generated by AI in their opponents’ filings? A California ethics ruling suggests they do. Read more @ lawnext.com
New ‘Bluebook’ rule on citing to AI raises criticism
The Bluebook’s first standardized format for citing to generative artificial intelligence content has created blowback from legal scholars and practitioners. Read more @ lawnext.com
A digital ‘go bag’ – preparing for the unthinkable termination
As painful as it may be, an unexpected termination for an attorney often carries with it the ethical obligation to clients of properly tying up loose ends. Read more @ [...]
The massive AI problem law firms are pretending doesn’t exist
Despite efforts by many law firms to ban or limit ChatGPT use, associates continue to access it on their personal devices because it saves time and effort, new Pew Research [...]
Could ‘RAG’ be the answer to hallucinating AI tools?
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) may have the potential to address the most significant concern with legal artificial intelligence tools: Fabricated citations. Read more @ thetechsavvylawyer.page
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