When I was at Microsoft our team came through to respond to an unexpected situation & was able to deliver. In the aftermath one of our folks said "I hope leadership doesn't take the fact that we successfully put out this fire as a sign that they should just light everything on fire from now on."
I get it - but...they need to do better. :-) That's kinda my point.
Too many attorneys are getting themselves sanctioned because they're not doing basic diligence.
We Laid Off 35 Percent of Our Team and Discovered We Never Needed Them www.inc.com/tony-mangani...
Maybe, just maybe, you're burning out your remaining people by shifting the additional work onto them. I didn't see anything in this article about how their existing folks are feeling.
If you have a Word template with placeholder text where the variables should go you can have #Copilot build the document for you by just providing it with the data that should replace those placeholders - much like a mail merge.
I love it when I'm leading a training class in the morning and the night before I toss and turn because my brain won't stop thinking of ways to improve (change) the class.
If his firm hasn't given him guidance on using AI then his firm is setting themselves up for trouble. Having an AI policy is pretty much essential these days.
Aside from which how did this novice lawyer get through law school without a class on professional responsibility?
Happy birthday Mary!
"The nice thing, with the AI literacy is that lawyers and legal people have a skill that makes you a superhero in the age of AI because you have the power and precision of language."
― Cat Casey on lawyers' advantage with AI
Heard on Lawyerist Podcast - AI for Lawyers
That said I let ChatGPT take a swing at it. It gave a lengthy answer and mentioned ABA Rule 512 specifically at least 4 times.
Attached is just the first portion.
Besides, my question was your question. ;-) You said I should ask it how important rule 512 was.
I'm not sure we should expect a general purpose AI to have the same understanding of priorities that an expert in the field (the attorney) would have.
And frankly any attorney whose priorities are no more finely tuned than a general purpose AI is probably on ethically dubious ground anyhow.
I really like the Meet app in #Teams, I hope this doesn't mean they're gutting the capability. 🫤
Glad to see Microsoft finally just putting Viva Engage (FKA Yammer) directly into Teams. It never made sense to me to maintain it as a separate silo for content.
#Copilot agents can help you streamline some of your repetitive processes for efficiency and consistency. #legaltech
Build Your Own Copilot Legal Assistant — No Tech Skills Required www.attorneyatwork.com/build-your-o...
Solid advice (though the clickbait headline doesn't really seem to line up with the article).
#Cybersecurity Experts Warn: This Common Email Habit Is a Gift to Hackers www.inc.com/reut-hackmon...
Martin Van Buren ((born Dec. 5, 1782) was the first U.S. president
(1837-1841) born after the United States officially became a country.
The first seven presidents were born as British citizens, before the
Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776). #Trivia
"People that ...can't quite figure out what we're talking about with agents...I'm talking about...#AI tools that I'm able to give deep instructions and context to and they can take some sort of action either on my behalf."
― Zack Glaser on defining AI agents, Heard on Lawyerist Podcast
"It's not what's good food, bad food, how to exercise. It's consistency."
― Cal Newport on habit change & MyBodyTutor
Yes, but...consistently eating Twinkies isn't going to make you healthier either. So I 100% agree that consistency is key, but it's helpful if you're consistent with good habits.
...and given how much emphasis there is on ethics in CLE it seems like it would be fairly fundamental to any firm thinking about using AI (which is nearly all of them right now).
I don't have any data on it, but in conversations with attorneys and people in firms I encounter people fairly often who apparently aren't familiar with 512.
It's surprising to me how many people in legal aren't familiar with ABA Formal Opinion 512. Especially as AI becomes the talk of the field being familiar with 512 seems essential. (and it's almost 2 years old)
www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
"Instead of leaving my current job for a new field or going back to school, I decided to focus on learning the parts of my job that other technicians avoided."
― Patrick on using career capital to advance
Heard on Deep Questions with Cal Newport - Ep. 313
Wow, the Nigerian Prince #scam goes old school with an actual postal letter! But still modern because they appear to have used AI to write it.
What a bizarre move. 🤔
Allbirds, Inc. Executes $50M Convertible Financing Facility Agreement; Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure | Allbirds, Inc. ir.allbirds.com/news-release...
Not listening to your customers, or only pretending to listen, is a real problem. Though, in fairness, in many cases companies hear conflicting things from different customers.
www.inc.com/stephanie-da...
Hey, my flight leaves from gate C17 and I'm sitting in 17C.
That has an agreeable symmetry.
I feel like I should clarify for my expense report that "Lucky Buns" is a burger place. 🤣
Copilot or Claude mostly.
