Okay, so you probably read the title to this one and you’re either (a) intrigued, or (b) not reading this sentence. 😂The butter knife part caught your attention, didn’t it? Or maybe it was the idea that the legal profession, our noble, centuries-old institution, might be living with the professional equivalent of a broken bathtub
As one of my clients used to say when we discussed strategy for a case, “let’s be careful lest we find ourselves in a closet talking to ourselves too much”. Meaning, of course, you need to have divergent voices in the room from time to time to ensure the best outcomes.
Back To Basics
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The EU AI Act’s phased implementation continues: from 2 August 2025, the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI (GPAI) will enter into force (and become enforceable in respect of any new GPAI models in August 2026 and for existing GPAI models in August 2027). This milestone follows the recent publication of (non-binding) guidelines[1] developed
Tyler Thompson appeared in a TV segment for Denver 7 News about Colorado’s AI regulation and the recent White House AI Action Plan, discussing how some companies are struggling to adhere to the rules because of the complexity of AI and noting that these companies want to be transparent but the challenges are costs and
What is AI legal writing?
AI legal writing tools are any tools that leverage AI to assist with both the creation of legal writing, and various tasks associated with it. AI legal writing can involve everything from using AI to streamline the creation of communications and templated pieces, to assisting with research or editing.
Because
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently said something that should grab ry lawyer’s attention. Appearing on the Theo Von podcast, Altman said,” “So if you go talk to ChatGPT about your most sensitive stuff, and then there’s … a lawsuit or whatever, … we could be required to produce that.
The Risk
Wait. What? That could mean
A Decade of Revolutionary Blockchain Innovation Transforms Global Finance
On July 30, 2015, a young programmer named Vitalik Buterin launched an ambitious project that would reshape the entire digital landscape. Today, exactly ten years later, Ethereum stands as the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency and the foundational infrastructure for an entirely new digital economy. What began as a
Every employee is probably learning about AI because their job demands it, learning new features after new features of the tools they use to do their job, learning new systems that get rolled out every year, and dealing with technological change at a ridiculous pace.
Then, we make them responsible for learning how to stay
Following on our earlier Globe and Mail op-ed and Law Bytes podcast, I am pleased to co-author a commentary on health data sovereignty and security with Kumanan Wilson and Mari Teitelbaum in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The key points identified in the piece: