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AI in the Law Firm: The Ethics of Who’s Running the Show
We’ve had a great response to an Above the Law op-ed here that outlined the kinds of skills lawyers will need as artificial intelligence increases its foothold in law firms. The piece makes clear that...
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Attorney Ethics 101: Fraud is Not Allowed
The non-legal press doesn’t usually get very deep into questions of legal ethics, but New York Magazine did a reasonable job of it in its hard-hitting piece this week on “The Bad, Good Lawyer” David...
View ArticleAtlanta Paper Exposes Widespread Violation of Federal Law by Private...
Great work by the Atlanta Journal Constitution on an issue that’s bugged me for years: the brazen violation of federal law by investigators and the lawyers who hire them. At issue is the Gramm Leach...
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The Bumbling Spies of Black Cube: Lawyers Beware
If you haven’t seen the amusing and disturbing piece in the Wall Street Journal this week about Black Cube, the band of former Mossad (Israeli secret service) agents, it’s worth a look. The article...
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President’s Day Thoughts on Interviewing
In honor of President’s Day (still officially known as Washington’s Birthday) a few thoughts about interviewing. There are so many more facts about ourselves that are in our heads (or the heads of...
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Can Your Investigator Interview Your Opponent’s Ex-Employees? A Good Test for...
Any litigator tasking interviews of potential witnesses needs to know about the no-contact rule (ABA Model Rule 4.2)[1], which forbids talking to represented people on the other side of a case. This...
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The Federal Judge Scandal – a Glimpse of What AI Can Do
I was puzzled this week at the reaction to a bomb of a story by the Wall Street Journal. The paper’s rightfully cautious lawyers allowed it to go to press and declare that 131 federal judges had broken...
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The Ethics of Handling Stolen Data from the Dark Web
We were asked recently about the ethics and legality of Dark Web searches, increasingly part of many investigations. I realized we had never posted on this issue and it’s about time. Since a lot of...
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Five Questions to Ask an Investigator Before Hiring
Where do you start in deciding which investigator to hire for a sensitive job? . It should be a business of trust, just as it is when choosing someone to come up with an estate plan, to sue a former...
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Who Is NOT a Good Referral for Our Firm? Lawbreakers!
I’m asked all the time when I meet other professionals, “Who’s a good referral for you?” I usually answer, “Litigators are good – if you want to see if it’s worth suing, or you want to look into the...
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