Month: July 2023

Legal Ethics and Artificial Intelligence

By Timothy Casey

Modern artificial intelligence tools offer the promise of quick and efficient solutions to complex questions. General applications such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Microsoft’s Bing A.I., Google’s Bard and law specific applications such as CaseText’s CoCounsel are based on advanced, deep-learning, language-based artificial intelligence. These applications use generative artificial intelligence that analyzes massive data sets to provide natural language responses to questions submitted by human users. While these tools may offer advantages over existing computer assisted research tools such as Lexis and Westlaw, there are unseen dangers as well. Read More

Big Data Analytics to Automate Patent Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence’s Inventions

Big Data Analytics to Automate Patent Disclosure of Artificial Intelligence’s Inventions

By Omid Valinasab
Ford, Walker, Haggerty & Behar LLP

The exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) will change the future of humanity.[1] As Stephen Hawking once suggested, the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it; the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.[2] Read More

The Corporate Transparency Act Means Rigorous Reporting Requirements for Corporate Clients

The Corporate Transparency Act Means Rigorous Reporting Requirements for Corporate Clients

By Kalli Sarkin
White and Bright, LLP

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is a new law that imposes additional reporting requirements on qualifying entities. Despite its name, the CTA will affect more than just corporations – it will also have an impact on limited liability companies and similar entities,[1] such as business trusts and limited liability partnerships. Read More

NLD Member Spotlight: Hana M. Willard

NLD Member Spotlight: Hana M. Willard

By Christina Liao
Law Offices of Jane Oak
 

Hana Willard is a judicial law clerk for Magistrate Judge Allison H. Goddard and could not love her work more. Before graduating from the California Western School of Law in 2019, she took an unconventional path to the bar after graduating from the University of Michigan as a Political Science major in 2009. Though she found something to love about every job she has held – including being a bartender and wine educator – Hana enjoys working in Judge Goddard’s chambers the most. “To make me leave, you’d have to drag me out kicking and screaming,” she says. Read More

Message from the NLD Board

Message from the NLD Board

July brought the sun to San Diego and the New Lawyer Division was ready to welcome it. The NLD co-hosted the annual Summer Social, a San Diego County Bar Association signature event. On July 12, attorneys across San Diego gathered at the Waterfront Park in downtown to enjoy “Una Notte d’Estate” or “One Summer Night.” The event was Italian-themed, and the food, drink, décor, and games charmingly evoked the Mediterranean. The NLD had a booth at the Summer Social, answered questions about membership and activities, and gave herb plantings as party favors. Read More

The New “Snitch Rule” in California

By Irean Z. Swan

A couple of weeks ago, on June 22, 2023, the Supreme Court of California unanimously approved the new Rules of Professional Conduct rule 8.3, or better known as the “snitch rule.” Before June 22, 2023, California was the only state that did not adopt the “snitch rule” in the ABA Model Rule 8.3, or a version of this rule.  The Court’s decision was based on one of two alternatives (they picked Alternative Two), which my colleague on the Legal Ethics Committee, Mallory H. Chase, discussed in this article. Read More