Alan R. Feigenbaum ● New York Law Journal, April 25, 2025 — Our artificial intelligence overlords tell us that in America we have a “death-denying culture.” Translation: generally speaking, death is a topic that is presumptively uncomfortable, swept under the rug, and … Continue reading →
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Family & Divorce
Illinois Divorce: Use of Generative AI Tools in Family Law
The subject of the use of Artificial Intelligence in medicine, engineering and other professions has become heightened and very contentious. AI, as many people know, has the ability to very quickly aggregate and analyze data (information), and to provide contextual and reasoned answers to questions posed to these computer platforms. The use of AI might…
I’ll Cry if I Want To – But Taking Steps to Avoid Tears Is a Better Strategy for Private Company Business Partners

In recent years, the headlines have tracked the news of high-profile breakups among business partners in private companies. These business partner fallouts include:
- 2023: Sam Altman was ousted as Open AI CEO (for less than three days) before he was brought back in a dramatic return to the company where he remains today.
- 2022,
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Trial by…Algorithm?
The Constitutional Impact of AI on the Jury Trial
In a blog post last year, we mentioned the constitutional implications of replacing jurors with AI. But what exactly does that mean? The answer to this question lies with understanding why juries exist in the first place. In America, the legal source of the jury trial…
CHATGTP FOILS COUNSEL’S APPLICATION, LEADING TO COSTS AND A LAW SOCIETY INVESTIGATION
In Zhang v. Chen 2024 BCSC 285 Ms. Zhang was successful in defending her husband Chen’s application for an order that the parties’ children, who lived with her in West Vancouver, be permitted to travel to China to spend time with their father. The court ruled that Chen’s application be revisited once a section 211…
Private Client Year Book 2024: Q&A India
The following Q&A was first published in the Legal 500 and Legal Business Magazine on 8th March, 2024. The same was written by our Private Client team at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. The online version of the Q&A can be found here.…
“The Road Not [Yet] Taken”: How AI May Impact and Innovate Divorce & Family Law
In August 1915, Robert Frost first published arguably his most famous poem, “The Road Not Taken”. The poem has since become a ubiquitous part of the American culture, with its signature phrases – “Two roads diverged in a wood and I–I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference”— being…