The legal profession is in the middle of a talent crisis that compensation alone has not been able to solve. Associate attrition reached 20% in 2024, up from 18% the year before, and firm-wide lawyer attrition across all seniority levels hit an average of 27% in 2025. Associates are leaving earlier than ever, most within
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The AI-Powered Attorney: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About LLMs, Legal AI Tools, and Ethical Risk
Artificial intelligence is no longer something attorneys can afford to understand only in the abstract. The tools are already here, already in use across firms of every size, and the gap between attorneys who understand how they actually work and those who do not is becoming professionally significant. The AI-Powered Attorney: Mastering Large Language Models
Behind the Code: What Lawline’s Dev Team Took Home from Laracon US 2026
Editor’s note: Every year, Lawline sends our development team to Laracon US, the annual conference for Laravel, the framework that powers the Lawline platform. It’s one of the ways we invest in the people who build the technology behind your learning experience. Below, our Director of Engineering shares our engineering team’s takeaways from this year’s
AI Ethics for Attorneys: What California's Rules Say About Using AI in Practice
Artificial intelligence is no longer something attorneys can defer thinking about. It is already reshaping how legal work gets done, from drafting and research to client communication and billing. The question is no longer whether to engage with these tools but how to do so without running afoul of the professional obligations that govern legal
AI for Lawyers: Power, Pitfalls and Prompting
Artificial intelligence is no longer a distantconcept for the legal profession. It is already in use across law firms of every size, and attorneys who do not understand it are increasingly at a disadvantage. AI for Lawyers: Power, Pitfalls and Prompting, presented by Jeffrey Allen of Graves & Allen and Ashley Hallene of Demeter
Human Judgment Required: The Ethics of Practicing Law in the Age of Generative AI
Generative AI has moved from a novelty to a daily fixture in legal practice faster than almost any technology before it. Attorneys are using it to draft documents, summarize materials, conduct research, and manage knowledge across entire firms. And yet, for all its utility, the ethical landscape around these tools remains unsettled, and the stakes
AI Governance, Estate Planning, and Social Media Ethics: What Attorneys Are Learning Right Now
Every month, thousands of attorneys complete CLE courses on Lawline, and the courses that rise to the top tell us something. They reflect what’s keeping practitioners up at night, where clients are asking harder questions, and which skills are becoming non-negotiable in day-to-day practice.This month, we’re doing something a little different: a countdown of March’s
2026 CLE Rule Changes
Remaining informed about changes in Continuing Legal Education (CLE) requirements is crucial for legal professionals to uphold their licenses and remain relevant in the ever-evolving field of law. Several states have recently implemented updates to their CLE regulations, aiming to enhance attorney competence, professionalism, and ethical standards. Lawline has compiled a running list of all
Generative to Agentic: The Legal Ethics of AI Evolution
Artificial intelligence has moved well beyond the theoretical. It is now an active force in legal practice, and the profession is still catching up. Generative to Agentic: The Legal Ethics of AI Evolution, a Lawline course presented by Khasim Lockhart of Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, offers attorneys a forward-looking framework for navigating the
Lawline's Top Women Faculty of 2025
Every March, Lawline pauses to do something we believe matters: look back at the year and recognize the women whose expertise, preparation, and generosity of spirit made this platform better. The educators who spent hours in front of a camera so attorneys across the country could learn something useful. The ones who took hard subjects