From practice innovations to battling the justice gap, the bar’s new Artificial Intelligence Standing Committee has big plans
By Damien Riehl
Shortly after the November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, the MSBA was among the first state bar associations to consider how large language models (LLMs) could affect legal practice. In early 2023, the MSBA appointed
By Brendan Kenny & Neven Selimovic
From the art of debate to the psychology of persuasion, legal writing stands alone as the purest form of argument in our profession. Good legal writing is an attorney’s main vehicle of advocacy. Legal writing requires commitment, clarity, choosing words that hit home, organizing them for maximum persuasion—and much
BY SUSAN M. HUMISTON
On July 29, 2024, the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issued Formal Opinion 512, entitled “Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools.” This opinion joins good ones from Florida and California in providing helpful guidance to lawyers on how to ethically incorporate generative AI—a subset of AI
The importance of showing up
By Amy Lindgren
Have you ever received a piece of advice that shaped your life? For Sam Edmunds, it might have been his dad’s counsel to “always show up,” a phrase heard frequently during his childhood. John Edmunds was telling his son that people who show up are the ones
By Mark Lanterman
From the recent AT&T outage1 to ongoing concerns about the security of U.S. critical infrastructure,2 managing digital risk is a continual process. Though often a daunting task for consumers and organizations, staying apprised of developments in our digital landscape can make a difference in our approach to cybersecurity and the application of
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,