As AI becomes more pervasive and lawyers are seeking guidance on how to navigate our rapidly evolving AI legal and regulatory environment, we are seeing a big increase in continuing legal education (CLE) events regarding AI and the law.
These events are often produced by law firms, bar associations, law schools, legal tech providers, general…
Last week (on Valentine’s Day), the leading airline Air Canada was ordered to issue a refund to a customer who was misled by its chatbot. This case has received a fair amount of attention across the internet and social media.
The facts of the case are pretty straightforward. An Air Canada customer sought to obtain…
It was great to be “back in law school” this past Friday to attend the “AI and Law: Navigating the Legal Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Symposium” at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law that was produced by its Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property in Chicago.
This terrific event was spearheaded by Northwestern Law Professor Dan…
Last year the internet went into a frenzy after pictures like the one above of Pope Francis wearing a puffer jacket were circulated. These images were created by generative AI and of course it demonstrates the powerful nature of AI technology.
The Pope has also been proactive in stressing the importance of ethical AI.…
A must-read report entitled “Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Workforce” was released last week by The Burning Glass Institute and SHRM. This report was also featured in an article in The New York Times. This report is interesting for the legal industry since it shares the following observations regarding the potential…
The annual Data Privacy Day 2024 was earlier this week on Sunday, January 28th. I originally thought that the data privacy people worked with the people at Hallmark to help make a Data Privacy Day. In any event, I didn’t receive a card in the mail to commemorate Data Privacy Day!
Of course, as we…
While I am not a “Swifty,” I’m a very big fan of the National Football League (NFL). Football fans like myself have been recently seeing a lot of highly popular singer-songwriter Taylor Swift on national TV since she’s been dating an NFL player named Travis Kelcie of the Kansas City Chiefs (and…
3 weeks ago, on New Year’s Eve, the 2023 Year End Report on the US Federal Judiciary was issued by US Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
I find it interesting from a marketing perspective that this annual report is released on the very last day of the year when most folks,…
During my legal career, I have had the good fortune to deliver legal support to some of the best marketing and sales enablement professionals in the world.
One key thing they have taught me is the importance of building and periodically evolving your brand.
Over the past 5 years I have authored 50+ blog posts…
This has been a tumultuous week in the football world as two of the all-time greatest coaches have stepped down from their jobs.After 17 seasons and 6 college football championships, Nick Saban announced that he was retiring from being the football coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide.Soon afterwards, Bill Belichick left the NFL’s New England…
Happy New Year!
I’m excited about 2024 and our new year provides new opportunities for alll of us.
Check out my latest #3Strikes video on LinkedIn where I shared these “Top 3” focus areas for lawyers in 2024:1. Artificial Intelligence: It will continue to be “AI all the time” in 2024. Since technology is both…
Congrats to former Major League Baseball (MLB) manager Jim Leyland who was just elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Above is a picture of Leyland’s first MLB baseball card when he took over as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates back in 1986 – and he sported the “Abe Lincoln” style Pirates hat 🎩.Leyland…
I remember being in Junior High School when President Reagan nominated Sandra Day O’Connor to be the first female US Supreme Court justice back in 1981.
At that time it was very, very long overdue to have a woman sit on our country’s highest court.
I have always admired Justice O’Connor. Not just because she was…
Over the past few months, I’ve had the privilege to talk about artificial intelligence at events with Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Intellectual Property Law Association of Chicago and the Association of Corporate Counsel-Chicago.
Here’s 5 AI takeaways that I have landed with audiences at these events:
☑️ Be AI Ready:…
I’ve attended some legal industry conferences and events this month where in-house counsel have asked me questions about internal company policies regarding AI.
Some of these questions have ranged from should my organization have an AI policy to what should such a AI policy say to can you please provide me with a sample AI policy…
As the group’s lead guitarist, the iconic musician George Harrison was the primary singer only on a few Beatles songs.
One of those songs (which was also written by Harrison) was called “Taxman.”
Based on this recent NY Times article, it seems like AI is the new “Taxman” as the US Internal Revenue Services…
