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Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns Of Text-Based Attorney Marketing, Ashley M. London
Something Wicked This Way Thumbs: Personal Contact Concerns Of Text-Based Attorney Marketing, Ashley M. London
Law Faculty Publications
When the American Bar Association (ABA) announced its latest revisions to Model Rules 7.1–7.5, governing attorney advertising, solicitation, and information about legal services in general, the organization may have unintentionally created a way for attorneys to hack directly into the brains of potential clients for purposes of pecuniary gain.
Brushing aside decades of precedent, the rule on Solicitation of Clients now allows real-time electronic solicitation, including text messaging and tweets. These developments beg the question of whether or not the ABA committee charged with redefining this rule actually understands the power and pervasiveness of cell phones, or how the use …
Ai Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money!, Ashley M. London
Ai Report: Humanity Is Doomed. Send Lawyers, Guns, And Money!, Ashley M. London
Law Faculty Publications
AI systems are powerful technologies being built and implemented by private corporations motivated by profit, not altruism. Change makers, such as attorneys and law students, must therefore be educated on the benefits, detriments, and pitfalls of the rapid spread, and often secret implementation of this technology. The implementation is secret because private corporations place proprietary AI systems inside of black boxes to conceal what is inside. If they did not, the popular myth that AI systems are unbiased machines crunching inherently objective data would be revealed as a falsehood. Algorithms created to run AI systems reflect the inherent human categorization …
Lawyers Keep Out: Why Attorneys Should Not Participate In Negotiating Critical Financial Numbers Reported By Public Company Clients, William O. Fisher
Lawyers Keep Out: Why Attorneys Should Not Participate In Negotiating Critical Financial Numbers Reported By Public Company Clients, William O. Fisher
Law Faculty Publications
In response to the financial scandals at the turn of the century, Sarbanes-Oxley and related reforms radically changed the relationship between accountants and the companies they audit. As a result, auditors exert greater power in the negotiations with management that produce critical numbers in company financial statements. That power provides auditors with newfound ability to resist pressure to certify financial statements that are overly favorable to company stock prices. With the best of intentions, some now urge that company attorneys should expand their efforts to police clients’ financial statements. But the introduction of lawyers into the bargaining between management and …
The Pragmatically Virtuous Lawyer?, Robert F. Blomquist
The Pragmatically Virtuous Lawyer?, Robert F. Blomquist
Law Faculty Publications
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