As jurists, law firms, legal professionals, and the public struggle to keep pace with the swift advancement of artificial intelligence, it is no surprise that courts are beginning to draft and enact rules for using these tools in legal proceedings. Just last week, before the Thanksgiving break, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals opened the… Read More

Sam Altman Reinstated as CEO at OpenAI After a week of turmoil that began just last Friday with the ouster of OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman, in another shocking twist of events, it was announced this morning that as of late Tuesday night, Sam Altman has been officially reinstated as OpenAI’s CEO, “reversing his ouster by… Read More

Last Thursday, LegalOn Technologies published a study claiming AI chatbots outperformed most aspiring lawyers on the Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE). According to the report, OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 performed best by answering 74% of the exam questions correctly, outperforming the nationwide average of human test-takers answering 68% correctly. Earlier this year, other research concluded that… Read More

Last week, a jury in New York found Robert De Niro’s production company, Canal Productions liable for gender discrimination and retaliation against De Niro’s former assistant, Graham Chase Robinson. The jury awarded Robinson $1.2 million in damages but found that De Niro was not personally liable. This legal battle stems back to 2019 when De Niro… Read More

The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 161 features Nicole Clark, Co-founder, CEO at Trellis, located in Los Angeles, California.  In this podcast, Nicole shares her story and how the idea for Trellis was born late one night as Nicole was trying to write a complicated motion for summary judgment. She didn’t know much about the judge… Read More