Joe Patrice
Posts by Joe Patrice
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Legal AI Knows What It Doesn’t Know Which Makes It Most Intelligent Artificial Intelligence Of All
Casetext’s Co-Counsel thinks like a good junior lawyer, which is exactly what lawyers need from AI.
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Emojis Can Amount To Securities Fraud. NFT Industry Mind-Blown, Eggplanted.
Somehow, people seem legitimately confused that they can’t avoid laws with pictures.
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Elon Musk Settlement Agreement As Unconstitutional Taking Is… A Theory
Musk’s legal team cites landmark Property case to undermine SEC settlement agreement.
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Your Invoice Is Not A Special Snowflake And It’s Costing Lawyers Time And Money
Forget ChatGPT, let’s have AI help pay our bills.
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Leadership Blaming Working From Home For Its Own Data Privacy Failures
Get ready for executives to blame the next big cyberattack on all you pesky kids working from home.
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40 Percent Of Law Firms Haven’t Raised Rates… It’s Probably Time
Almost a third of the Am Law 100 have stood on rates as inflation crept up.
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AI Won’t Replace All Lawyers… Just The Lazy Ones
Robot lawyers aren’t coming, but anti-AI lawyers will be leaving.
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* Just because the law determines that someone is a dangerous threat to others, the Fifth Circuit rules that court orders still can’t take away their guns because that’s a fundamental right. You know, walking around as a free person is a fundamental right too… can the justice system still put criminals in prison? [Reuters]
* Lizzo is now officially 100 percent that bitch. [Law360]
* Baker McKenzie office managing partner steps aside amid investigation into office-wide discrimination claims. [LegalCheek]
* Mergers are going to get bigger. Which is the point of all mergers, but we mean a lot bigger. [American Lawyer]
* Data breaches are going to get costlier to deal with. So maybe plan ahead? Or don’t… plaintiffs lawyers need work too. [Law.com Barometer]
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* Law firms don’t appreciate associates building their own brand through social media. Because “professional development” only flows one direction. [Legal Intelligencer]
* Hunter Biden seems to have found lawyers who are aware that ripping private data off a computer is generally a crime. [Washington Post]
* Real Criminal Defendants Of Beverly Hills. [Reuters]
* Andrew Tate’s got a new lawyer. He’s probably mansplaining how the law works to her right now. [Rolling Stone]
* Supreme Court considers whether algorithms might evade the spirit of internet laws. [The Atlantic]
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Now THIS Is How You Bring ChatGPT Into Lawyering!
ChatGPT comes to contract management in latest Ironclad announcement.
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As Law Firms Start Layoffs, Alternative Legal Services Providers Grow Like Gangbusters
Biglaw firms that haven’t entered the ALSP market might want to get a move on.
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ChatGPT Crowns Clarence Thomas As Champion Of Gay Rights In Feedback Loop Of Stupid
That’s not how I remember it, but maybe this is like the whole ‘Berenstein Bears’ thing.
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* Sam Bankman-Fried objects to “overbroad” bail restrictions. Bail restrictions can be onerous and harassing but these boil down to “please don’t talk to possible witnesses against you or send automatically deleting communications,” which seems… reasonable. Next thing you know they’re going to be telling him he can’t pay fines with magic beans! [Reuters]
* When looking in the mirror in 2023, there’s one question we must all ask ourselves: Was I at Camp Lejeune? I don’t think so, but these ads have got me wondering if I might’ve been stationed there for 5 years and just forgot. [Bloomberg]
* Life Sciences work is going to stay busy. It seems there’s still plenty of money out there despite all the grumbling. [The Recorder]
* It took a Ninth Circuit opinion, but it turns out that, yes, the president can fire people who work for him. Glad we got that settled. [Law360]
* The Prenda Law saga continues as a federal court shuts down the latest attempt of the imprisoned lawyer to file more of the same lawsuits that landed him in prison in the first place. [Ars Technica]
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Lawyers Rejoice Over Killing AI Court Hearing That None Of Them Would Touch With 10-Foot Pole
Lawyers are not beautiful and unique snowflakes.
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* There’s a lot to say about Brett Kavanaugh’s speech at Notre Dame Law School, but he used the opportunity to bash the US News rankings blasting the idea that the publication’s reputation survey can capture the quality of an education. His clerks this Term all went to Harvard, Yale, and Stanford. [CNN]
* Shearman & Sterling used to be a top 5 earning firm. Now it’s banking on a merger — that feels more like a takeover — to save it. What happened? [American Lawyer]
* Forum shopping has gotten to the point where attorneys pushing fringe legal theories have a 100 percent chance of landing a friendly judge. [The Nation]
* Ted Lieu proposes resolution to regulate AI written by AI. I guess we already let oil companies write environmental laws so this isn’t much different. [NBC]
* John Eastman disbarment proceedings coming soon. [The Guardian]
* Republicans target ESG rules. It’s one thing to complain about the SEC, but these proposals would bar investment funds from making demands on companies they own. So much for the free market! [Bloomberg]
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* ChatGPT “passes” law school exam. Which is not really how law school works, but cool. Congrats on your below market salary, debt-laden hellscape Johnny 5! [CBS]
* Lawyer threats avert robot legal apocalypse. I’m still pretty sure this is a stupid temper tantrum from lawyers who think they’re special snowflakes, but here we are. [NPR]
* Madison Square Garden’s lawyer ban may violate bias laws. Reality continues to lag about 4 weeks behind what I say. Are people not watching my podcast appearances when they come out live? Because we could speed all this up. [NBC]
* Paperwork is just not Elon Musk’s “style.” That’s cool and all, but you still need to do it before publicly announcing that you have done the paperwork. [Law360]
* Axiom opens law firm in Arizona thanks to regulatory changes. [ABA Journal]
* Craziest. Story. Ever. [Courthouse News Service]
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Supreme Court Leaves Nine Stones Unturned
And what’s going on with the legal market right now?