Joshua Lenon

Clio Launches Clio Capital to Provide Fast, Low-Friction Financing for Law Firms Clio has officially launched Clio Capital, a financing program designed exclusively for law firms that use the company’s practice management platform. The product, which went live Feb. 26, provides…

Clio Launches Clio Capital to Provide Fast, Low-Friction Financing for Law Firms

Great topic!

Nice! I’ll need a way to include both Kindle, Humble Bundles, and Libby reads.

Now I want to catalog my library!

Been a few years since I’ve done that.

LER No. 122 - Ethics Whiplash Over Executive Orders + FL Bondi Complaint, DOJ Takes on State Discipline, Spike in Judicial Conduct Complaints, UK Private Equity Soars While CA Limits & More (03.09.26) The Legal Ethics Roundup - your Monday morning tour of all things related to lawyer and judicial ethics with University of Houston law professor Renee Knake Jefferson

Loving @legalethics.bsky.social’s photo in her recent #legalethics @abovethelaw.com column. Come for the library aesthetic, stay for important updates in an increasingly embattled legal profession.

legalethics.substack.com/p/ler-no-122...

There’s so much to stay on top of!

Clearly a raptor of some
type is a better supervisor in these circumstances. That’s basic ornithology!

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This is my shocked face.

This is clearly the plan.

Dems Again Push For Independent Immigration Courts - Law360 Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system.

Democrats have again introduced a bill that would shift the immigration courts from the executive branch to an independent judiciary, following concerns that the Trump administration has "weaponized" the system. http://law360.com/ar...

She-Hulk (2014 series, issue 3) where she explains the limitations period in which an asylum seeker may apply.

I've taught @goclio.bsky.social employees about the practice of law using She-Hulk scenes from Dan Slott and @charlessoule.bsky.social's respective series.

The #LegalTrendsReport I help draft every year found a similar usage.

46% of legal professional surveyed said they were using non-legal specific Ai tools, compared w 36% using legal-specific Ai tools.

Most firm benefits seen (revenue, efficiency, etc.) were tied to operational improvements.

§ 390-f (2)(a) which reads in part, "A proprietor of a chatbot shall not permit such chatbot to provide any substantive response, information, or advice, or take any action which, if taken by a natural person:"

Theoretically, this law could apply to some agentic Ai actions used by law firms.

UPL complaints can be filed against non-lawyers within law firms practicing law without attorney oversight.

Is that the target of this law? No, but that won't prevent confusion about #legaltech.

I had similar thoughts when reading this.

Badly written when viewed in isolation from other laws, at least.

Thanks for covering this.

I see your point and agree.

Rakoff made a point of pulling out user agreement terms showing this free plan service gave no reasonable expectation of privacy.

Similar client actions asking legal advice from random people on a bus would have the same outcome.

Just seeing how far you think this ruling extends?

Privilege in which context?

Rakoff made it clear that a client chatbotting w their own free-tier genAi account is not communicating with a lawyer. Also this client reasonably knew this was not private, i.e. used in training LLM.

Privilege never attached.

Thank you!

@jmiers230.bsky.social If you need a #legaltech lecturer, I would be thrilled to contribute.

Federal Court Rules that a Litigant’s AI Materials Are Protected Work Product — SERGENIAN LAW A Michigan federal court holds that a litigant’s ChatGPT materials are protected work product and that AI tools are “tools, not persons,” reaching the opposite conclusion from a decision from a New Yo...

Also important, a Michigan federal magistrate judge just held that work product doctrine protections can apply to genAi chats.

Pro se litigant using genAi to research and prepare.

Not a self-link: www.sergenianlaw.com/blog/warner-...

Why Judge Jed Rakoff Denied Privilege for AI Chats: US v. Heppner Explained YouTube video by Clio

I know @cathygellis.bsky.social will cover this in her CLE, but the facts leading to the holding are pretty specific.

CLIENT asks free-tier genAi for legal advice, WITHOUT the knowledge or direction of lawyer.

Rakoff: No privilege nor work product protections.

Self-link: youtu.be/xH3_Y4LTms4

I don’t think people outside of the legal profession understand the cold civil war happening in the U.S. right now.

2. Will judges exercise their plenary power to exclude lawyers with un-investigated complaints? Citing a basis of the appearance of impropriety?

There’s two angles I haven’t seen discussed yet.

1. Can other states preemptively label DOJ -shielded lawyers admitted in colluding bar associations as presumptively unfit?

Ex. CalBar cites excessive reports of misconduct as basis for refusing pro hac vice and future reciprocity.

1/2

I think we need judicial recognition that most use of Signal by government employees without explicitly defined authorization is per se spoiliation.

Thanks for posting this.

I'm not seeing an angle that works.

That's the dream.

I want bookcases so tall I need ladders attached on rails.