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Gray Advice, Keith Porcaro

Duke Law & Technology Review

Debates over economic protectionism or the technology flavor-of-the-month obscure a simple, urgent truth: people are going online to find help that they cannot get from legal and health professionals. They are being let down, by products with festering trust and quality issues, by regulators slow to apply consumer protection standards to harmful offerings, and by professionals loath to acknowledge changes to how help is delivered. The status quo cannot continue. Waves of capital and code are empowering ever more organizations to build digital products that blur the line between self-help and professional advice. For good or ill, “gray advice” is …

Time Is Money But Our Indigents Have Neither, Lee T. Nutini

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Lawyers’ And Law Professors’ Experience With Worker Governance, Brett Mcdonnell

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Lawyering In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence, Jonathan H. Choi, Amy B. Monahan, Daniel Schwarcz

Minnesota Law Review Vols. 106:2 onward (2021-present)

We conducted the first randomized controlled trial to study the effect of AI assistance on human legal analysis. We randomly assigned law school students to complete realistic legal tasks either with or without the assistance of GPT-4, tracking how long the students took on each task and blind-grading the results.

We found that access to GPT-4 only slightly and inconsistently improved the quality of participants’ legal analysis but induced large and consistent increases in speed. AI assistance improved the quality of output unevenly—where it was useful at all, the lowest-skilled participants saw the largest improvements. On the other hand, AI …

Juror Privacy Via Anonymity, Jayne S. Ressler

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Roger Williams University Law Review Symposium: Trauma-Informed Lawyering: Approaches To Advocating For Diverse Populations November 15, 2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

Rwu Law Alumni Newsletter November 2024, Roger Williams University School Of Law

RWU Law

No abstract provided.

Establishing A Perinatal Medical-Legal Partnership To Address The Health-Harming Legal Needs Of Pregnant And Postpartum Birthing People, Loral Patchen, Roxana Richardson, Lisa Kessler, Deborah Perry, Kimberly Martinez, Vicki W. Girard

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

This Report from the Field chronicles the establishment of Georgetown University’s Perinatal Legal Assistance and Wellbeing Project, a medical-legal partnership in Washington, D.C. It describes foundational steps, implementation strategies, and lessons learned, and reflects on impacts of addressing the unmet legal needs of birthing individuals.

Rights And Redress For Transgender Survivors Of Prison Rape: The Failures Of The Prison Rape Elimination Act, Natalie Hatton

William & Mary Law Review

This Note will argue that PREA [Prison Rape Elimination Act] provides meager protection and insufficient relief to transgender individuals who have been victims of sexual violence while incarcerated and that the existing mechanisms for relief are insufficient. Because PREA contains no private cause of action to allow survivors of rape to sue for violations of PREA, transgender rape survivors’ pain remains unredressed. To address this problem, this Note puts forth a combination of solutions to remove barriers to redress for transgender survivors of prison rape, including amending PREA to include a private cause of action and repealing provisions of the …

Representing Agricultural Enterprises: Ethical Concerns, John Dillard

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Toward More Equal Access To Justice: The Tennessee Experience, Douglas A. Blaze, R. Brad Morgan

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Keynote Address: Protecting The Pillars Of Our Legal System, Bernard W. Nussbaum

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

The Role Of The Attorney And The Attorney Client Relationship: The Keys To Improved Public Perception Of Attorneys And The Lexus, Jeanne Marie Zokovitch Paben

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Transcript: The Intersection Of Race And Poverty In Criminal Justice, Stephen B. Bright

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

Transcript of the lecture given by Bright at the University of Tennessee College of Law Summers-Wyatt Lecture given on September 27, 2010.

Luncheon Address: Remarks From Professor Jerry Black, Jerry Black

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Dealing With Excessive Caseloads With Litigation: Panel Two, Mark E. Stephens, Rory Stein, Max Bahner, Cara H. Drinan, Adele Bernhard

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Dealing With Excessive Caseloads Without Litigation, Robert Stein, John Terzano, Norman Lefstein, Avis Buchanan, Robert Boruchowitz, Dennis Keefe, James R. Neuhard

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Systemic Indigent Defense Litigation: A 2010 Update, Cara H. Drinan

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

No Champion For Children: Tennessee's Rule 40a And The Appointment Of Guardians Ad Litem In Custody Proceedings, Austin Elizabeth Kupke

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Panel Discussion 2: Litigation For Change, Jacqueline Dixon, Dean Rivkin, Robert Schwartz

Tennessee Journal of Law and Policy

No abstract provided.

Rural Renting: An Empirical Portrait Of Eviction, Cassie Chambers Armstrong, Christopher J. Ryan Jr.

University of Cincinnati Law Review

In this Study, we examine eviction from the renter’s perspective. Specifically, we seek to understand what factors influence the eviction process—and the likelihood it will result in a judgment against a renter—once a property owner initiates legal proceedings. To this end, we used records from 202,572 eviction cases filed by landlords in Kentucky state courts. We employed statistical modeling to determine what impacted whether each case ultimately ended in a judgment of eviction against the renter.

Many of our findings were novel, and they were staggering. We found that, holding all else equal, those living in rural areas were at …

The Unintended Costs Of Advance Waivers Of Future Conflicts, Ashley M. London

Law Faculty Publications

The American Bar Association (“ABA”) unenthusiastically recognized advance waivers of future conflicts for the first time in a 1993 formal opinion. These allow lawyers to take on prospective clients whose interests will be adverse to current clients at some point in the future. They also sidestep the ethics rule requirement of obtaining true informed consent from a client to waive a conflict of interest because, at the time of signing, the conflict is not yet ripe. After a full-court press by its own Business Law Section Ad Hoc Committee during the Ethics 2000 Commission’s review of the Model Rules of …

Access To Civil Justice In The Age Of Ai: Mindsets & Pathways To New Practices, Natalie Anne Knowlton

Ohio Northern University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Ai Legal Innovations: The Benefits And Drawbacks Of Chat-Gpt And Generative Ai In The Legal Industry, Laura A. Lorek

Ohio Northern University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Dispute Settlement Mechanisms Under The Free Trade Agreement, Ton J.M. Zuijdwijk

Maine Law Review

The purpose of this paper is to review the dispute settlement mechanisms that are contained in the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. The two countries reached agreement on the main features of the Free Trade Agreement on October 3, 1987. Thereafter, the elements of the Agreement were converted into the legal text of the Free Trade Agreement and signed by Prime Minister Mulroney and President Reagan on January 2, 1988. Legislation implementing the Free Trade Agreement has been introduced in the Parliament of Canada and in the United States Congress. In Canada the ordinary rules for legislative enactments will apply. …

The Fiduciary Duty Of Combatting Global Climate Change, Sadie Mapstone

Washington and Lee Law Review Online

Ancient Roman Law codified the concept that there are certain resources that are so great and so important to human survival, that intuitively, no person should own them. Further, the government must protect these resources for the people. Today, this concept is known at the public trust doctrine. According to the contemporary doctrine, the seas, oceans, shores, and submerged lands cannot be privately owned, but shall be held in trust by the government for public use. Relying on the public trust doctrine, climate change litigants have brought a tirade of lawsuits—which have largely been unsuccessful—alleging that the government has a …

Solicitation By Lawyers: Piercing The First Amendment Veil, Louise L. Hill

Maine Law Review

Historically, the legal profession has considered the solicitation of business inappropriate. The profession has articulated this condemnation of solicitation, which developed as a principle of good taste among a small and homogeneous group of practitioners, in the form of specific rules prohibiting its members from engaging in certain forms of conduct. In recent years, the United States Supreme Court has considered various rules that restrict the commercial speech of lawyers. Reviewing these proscriptive rules, the Court struck down categorical bans on lawyer advertising and targeted, direct mail solicitation as violative of the first amendment. Because the free flow of information …

An Appreciation Of L. Kinvin Wroth, Vincent L. Mckusick

Maine Law Review

Kinvin Wroth is a man who sports many hats. After wearing his Dean's hat for twelve years with confidence and grace, Kinvin, at the end of the year, is taking off that hat and returning to wearing full-time his wide assortment of other headgear. He takes off his Dean's hat just after he reaches the age of 58, at the height of his productive powers of scholarship, teaching, and public service. For many years to come, we of the State of Maine will continue to benefit from his labors, performed under his many other hats. But the end of his …

Hacked! North Korea's Billion-Dollar Crypto Heisting Scheme, Kole Zellers

Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs (2012 - Present)

No abstract provided.

State Bar Of California, Selena Sanchez, Jamie Russo, Marcus Friedman

California Regulatory Law Reporter

No abstract provided.