Could a Robot Do This?
No, legal ethics involves moral judgment
By Edward McInytre, Cartoon by George Brewster Jr.
Category: Legal Ethics
New Rules of Professional Conduct The California Supreme Court Has Acted
By Edward McIntyre
By an order filed May 10, 2018, the California Supreme Court changed California’s legal ethics landscape.
Potential and Actual Conflicts: Be Aware of the New Rules
By Andrew Servais
It is no secret that on November 1, 2018, California lawyers will be subject to multiple new Rules of Professional Conduct, which, in most cases will be based on the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. A conversion table between the new and old California Rules of Professional Conduct can be found on the State Bar website at: http://www.calbar.ca.gov/Portals/0/documents/rules/Cross-Reference-Chart-Rules-of-Professional-Conduct.pdf
A Quick Look at Attorney Advertising
By Patrick Kearns
A friend of mine, a California attorney, recently reached out to me regarding a newspaper advertisement he saw in a Southern California newspaper. My friend practices insurance defense and professional liability, primarily for medical providers and facilities. He was astounded by the advertisement which was a full, two-page fold-out identifying at the top, in large letters, the name of a particular hospital and asking whether “you or someone you love” had been a patient at the facility.
AI and Real World Ethics
Ethics and Technology on the Cutting Edge
By Edward McIntyre
Slowly — as though pushing through a parting cloud — some of us only now are beginning to realize that AI (artificial intelligence) is shaping, and likely will dominate, our lives and futures. Well beyond our expectations. Beyond our imaginations, even. Yet this is the precise environment that California Western School of Law’s Second Annual Legal Ethics Symposium sought to tackle — with the added dimension of its ethical implications.
