Morning Docket: 02.23.23

* Another effort to strike "non-lawyer" from the industry vernacular. Deploying the phrase to denigrate other professionals is bad, but... it's pretty important for a host of ethical reasons that folks know if their law firm contact is a lawyer or not. [Law.com] * Shocking absolutely no one, when faculty met to discuss an effort by some Christian law students to get official recognition for new clubs to exclude LGBTQ students, the meeting was recorded and leaked to Fox News. Because the whole point for these initiatives is to get on Fox News. But now police are involved and students are getting a crash course in the difference between one- and two-party consent states. [NHPR] * Alex Murdaugh's lawyer pulled a gun on the prosecutor? Meh, seems par for this course. [Intelligencer] * Even if Section 230 survives, it won't shield ChatGPT. [Lawfare] * Regulators are starting to think billion-dollar crypto deals might be a problem. Welcome to the party. [Reuters]

onFebruary 23, 2023 at 9:19 AM

Production of robot, employee, worker, labor slave…Productivity, profitability and work team. * Another effort to strike “non-lawyer” from the industry vernacular. Deploying the phrase to denigrate other professionals is bad, but… it’s pretty important for a host of ethical reasons that folks know if their law firm contact is a lawyer or not. [Law.com]

* Shocking absolutely no one, when faculty met to discuss an effort by some Christian law students to get official recognition for new clubs to exclude LGBTQ students, the meeting was recorded and leaked to Fox News. Because the whole point for these initiatives is to get on Fox News. But now police are involved and students are getting a crash course in the difference between one- and two-party consent states. [NHPR]

* Alex Murdaugh’s lawyer pulled a gun on the prosecutor? Meh, seems par for this course. [Intelligencer]