A profession at the crossroads
By Damien Riehl
Since November 2022, when ChatGPT raised the world’s consciousness of the power of generative AI tools such as large language models (LLMs), the legal profession has debated a particular question: Might LLMs—and the companies that run them—be performing the unauthorized practice of law (UPL)?
In many states,
By: Tasneem Mewa
This week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) prohibited Rite Aid from using and relying on facial recognition technology that misidentified customers and wrongly accused them of shoplifting based on matches to Rite Aid’s database. Matches often resulted in customers being accused, searched, and expelled from stores.
The statement by Commissioner Alvaro M.