Akin to a 1991 major law firm management’s effort to anoint the reign of the ‘paperless law library,’ Robert McKay’s commentary challenges the death knell of the latest iteration of powerhouse law publishing by the multitude of AI applications and programs poised to take the throne.
Since generative AI was first publicly released over two years ago, a litany of reports has been released that provide insight into how law firms are approaching it and the changing perspectives on its benefits and risks. Nicole L. Black brings the facts to the discussion of how and to what extent law firms are actually implementing AI.
Dr. Mariah Meek asserts that it wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat. But that’s exactly what the Trump administration is proposing to do by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: harm. The definition change is a quiet way to gut the Endangered Species Act.
Political science scholars who study the origins of elected strongmen, Professors Joe Wright and Erica Franz discuss how President Donald Trump’s first three months in office has been distinguished by how his administration has targeted dozens of former officials who criticized him or opposed his agenda. They believe Trump’s use of the Justice Department to attack former officials who stood up to him isn’t just about revenge. It also deters current officials from defying Trump.