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Next-Gen Bar Exam That Truly Tests Daily Practice Skills Must Include Technology

LawTechnologyToday

“Professed technological incompetence is not an excuse for discovery misconduct” is not a court holding you want to see (James v. Law schools also have an ethical obligation to train technology competency skills and offer basic technology training in required first-year legal practice courses and upper-level legal technology courses.

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My 40 Most-Read Blog Posts This Year Tell A Story Of A Legal Industry Consumed With Generative AI

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Two popular stories were about GPT taking the bar exam: one in March when GPT passed the bar exam, and the second in November when it passed the legal ethics exam. Circuit Court of Appeal’s proposed rule on appellants’ use of AI to create filings. Appeals Court, 5th U.S.

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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

SCOTUSBlog

Share Sandra Day O’Connor, a self-described “Arizona cowgirl” who made history as the first woman to serve as a Supreme Court justice, died on Friday in Phoenix, Arizona. The cause was complications related to advanced dementia, probably Alzheimer’s disease, and a respiratory illness, the Supreme Court announced. She was 93.

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NY Announces Temporary Authorization Program for Recent Law Grads

The Legal Ease

In this week that NY law grads were originally scheduled to be taking the bar exam, the New York State Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) has announced a revision of its rules to temporarily authorize qualifying graduates of ABA-accredited law schools to practice law in New York under supervision pending their admission to the bar.

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Women of Legal Tech: Amanda Brown

LawTechnologyToday

Every Monday and Wednesday, we will be featuring a woman from our class of 2021. After the bar exam, I spent time as a disaster recovery fellow with my local legal aid program and supported the development of the ABA’s Flood Proof project. I have absolutely zero formal training in computer science.

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What IS a paralegal, exactly?

LexBlog

I think a shorter list is what one is not, but in summary, paralegals provide day to day support by assisting attorneys, law offices, or other various agencies conducting research, drafting legal documents, and handling cases. Nor is a paralegal a court reporter. Paralegals are an attorney’s right-hand person.

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Path To Well-Being In Law: Episode 18: Janet Stearns

ALPS

It’s against that backdrop that we are trying to encourage people to really both focus on their studies and focus on their well-being. We have been doing some 3L specific sort of pathway to the bar exam kinds of programming. Miami Beach goes around the clock. BREE: Yeah. CHRIS: Okay.