(Photo by Barbara Kinney) In early 2015, Swapna Reddy volunteered for a week at the South Texas Family Residential Center, an immigration detention center near the U.S.-Mexico border that held thousands of... Read more »
(Photo by Kathy Anderson/ABA Journal) Some people talk about giving up their luxurious lifestyles to help those in need. In 1999, Roy Ferguson actually did it. He and his wife sold their... Read more »
Addie Tobin Smith (left) and Joanna Perini-Abbott co-chair the Licensure Pathway Development Committee for the Oregon State Board of Bar Examiners. (Photo by Michael Schmitt/ABA Journal) When the Oregon State Board of... Read more »
(Photo by Len Irish Photography/ABA Journal) Rodrigo Camarena has been advocating for immigrants since he was a child. By the time he was 8, this son of an electrical engineer father and... Read more »
Devshi Mehrotra and Leslie Jones-Dove co-founded JusticeText in 2019 to try to level the playing field for overworked public defenders combing through video depositions, police interviews and bodycam footage, creating an artificial... Read more »
For lawyers working to close the justice gap, generative artificial intelligence could be a real game changer. According to a 2022 study by the Legal Services Corp., 92% of low-income Americans’ civil... Read more »
Lawyers who expect generative artificial intelligence to significantly impact the practice of law see some of the greatest potential in legal research and writing. In August, a LexisNexis Legal & Professional study... Read more »
The PC, smartphone, email and the internet. History is littered with examples of how hot new technologies meant to make us more productive led to unintended consequences, including stress and burnout. When... Read more »
ChatGPT’s unveiling sparked conversations among law faculty, with opinions ranging from banning GPT platforms in certain classes to encouraging experimentation to reconsidering law school pedagogy, professors contacted by the ABA Journal say.... Read more »
Riding the waves of ChatGPT’s explosive entrance in late 2022, a host of vendors have developed generative artificial intelligence-powered tools for use throughout the contract life cycle. “It is not often in... Read more »