The CBAY Awards were created during the 2024–2025 bar year by Past President John Sciaccotta to personally recognize and say thank you to the people who made his bar year extraordinary. President Judge Nichole C. Patton continued this tradition by presenting the 2025-2026 bar year CBAY Awards on May 20, 2026. This blog post is
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The CBA Hosts First-of-Its-Kind Symposium Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the Legal Profession and the Judiciary
The CBA’s immersive, three-day symposium, AI 2035: The Legal Profession and the Judiciary in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, promises to help members of the legal community better understand Artificial Intelligence (AI) and provide guidance on its implications for the legal profession. The event will take place at Venue Six10 on May 11 – May…
Navigating the Rise of AI in ADR: Opportunities, Risks and Ethical Considerations for Attorneys
Authored by: Hon. Mary Colleen Roberts (Ret.)
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere. Virtually every conversation these days involves AI and now this advanced technology seems to be on the cusp of transforming nearly every aspect of society. Whether that proves to be more hype than reality remains to be seen.
AI has certainly made plenty…
Your clients are using AI without you
AI has officially broken the old rules of running a law firm. The gap between firms that scale and those that stall is now a canyon. CBA Member Benefit Provider Clio’s new Legal Trends Report is your bridge to get to the other side.
This isn’t just another research paper. It’s a playbook built on…
Disney Enterprises Inc. et al v. Midjourney Inc.: To Limit AI, or To Infinity and Beyond?
Authored by: Allison Guenther
Imagine your favorite Disney princess or Marvel superhero. Your brain may visualize Snow White, Cinderella, Iron Man, Captain America…. You see them clearly in your head. If you saw an image of that character, you would recognize them instantly. Artificial intelligence has begun penetrating countless fields, particularly the entertainment industry. By…
Appellate Perspectives: Advice From Top Advocates (and one law student) on Oral Argument
Authored by: Shmuel Wyckoff
Lawyer: “As we know, in Illinois, we require three particles. . . That’s the State Police threshold. I would add this morning besides looking at the common law record, I did a Chat GPT, and I think it’s called a Grok search, to see if there was any states [that allow…
A Cursory View: Facial Recognition Technology
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.…