The wonderful Alexis Keenan of California’s Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB) interviewed a few of us about how GenAI might affect the billable hour, and here’s what the article said: https://nancy-b-rapoport.com/nbr_blog/Big%20Law%20Stays%20Mum%20on%20Clients%27%20AI%20Efficiency%20Demands%2C%20But%20Tensions%20Are%20Already%20Seeping%20Through%20-%20CEB%20Articles.pdf. (You can also see it at https://research.ceb.com/posts/big-law-stays-mum-on-clients-ai-efficiency-demands-but-tensions-are-already-seeping-through if
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Career advice for law students and new lawyers.
I saw this post yesterday:
That is absolutely wonderful advice.
Whenever I hear that a law student or a new lawyer has gotten into trouble, typically it’s because the person has tried to turn in something close to perfect, but
That’s not how federalism works.
The DOJ has proposed a new rule (https://aboutblaw.com/bk49) that suggests a “better” way to investigate its lawyers who have been accused of ethics violations: instead of doing its own investigations in parallel with any state bar investigations, the
Hanging Separately
Although Benjamin Franklin often gets credit for saying “[w]e must all hang together, or most assuredly we will all hang separately,” several quote-verification sites have debunked that attribution. Still, the concept is important, even if its provenance is murky.
The
Maybe Dall-E3 has a sense of humor. Or maybe it’s sadistic.
I was playing around with ChatGPT’s Dall-E3 to get it to draw a stick figure that vaguely resembles me, and I got this saga instead:
Draw a stick figure of a longhaired female law professor standing at a blackboard or
Some thoughts for 1Ls about facing the “fight or flight” response in class
It’s that time of year: 1Ls are arriving at law schools (some already may have had their first classes), and for those who didn’t grow up surrounded by lawyers, the experience of panic when getting called on in class can
Why we should train law students not to complain anonymously, part 2
In an earlier post, I explained why I don’t believe that law students should file anonymous complaints. Here’s a follow-up post. According to an article on law.com, an internal investigation at the university level determined that those anonymous
Should we train law students never to complain anonymously?
I read an article today that featured allegations of discrimination against a professor. (I also have left a comment after that article, but it has not yet appeared.) I read a lot of those types of articles, most recently this
Sarah Weddington, R.I.P.
When I saw the tweet about Sarah Weddington’s passing and read the Texas Tribune’s obituary, I thought back to the first time that I met her. She spoke at an event at the University of Nebraska, back when I
Score: Delta and our travel agency, infinity; Southwest, 0
So we were among the thousands of people stranded by Southwest last week, trying to make it to a long-planned milestone occasion. I awoke at 12:15am on Sunday morning to read a 11:30pm Saturday text from Southwest. That text