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

On Monday, the Supreme Court announced the adoption of a new code of conduct for the justices. The document is 14 pages (with the Code laid out over nine) and includes five cannons of conduct on topics ranging from what kind of activities the justices can engage in, to when they must recuse themselves from… Read More

On November 2, 2023, a 12-jury panel convicted Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, of seven criminal fraud counts related to his role and connection to the collapse of FTX. Bankman-Fried, commonly called SBF, is a 31-year-old former billionaire that Forbes once named “the world’s richest 29-year-old.” After a four-week-long… Read More