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If vendor promotional materials are to be believed, artificial intelligence is the secret sauce cooked into nearly every legal application on the market these days. Familiar legal research and document drafting tools have all been enhanced with AI superpowers, and few legal technology startups dare hit the market without a claim to be supported in…

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently released for public comment a proposal to create a baseline set of ground rules for the conduct of remote depositions in that state. The proposed rule revisions would set out new deposition notice requirements, technical standards for deposition providers, as well as rules on permissible camera positioning, limits on…

Remote court hearings and remote depositions are commonplace today. In fact, some law firms are hiring lawyers with the expectation that they may never work at the firm’s physical office and never appear in courtrooms located in their jurisdictions. Remote practice, however, does not always fit neatly within the legal profession’s ethical obligations. We have…

Twenty years ago the federal government designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, part of an early effort to promote a wider appreciation of computer-related threats to business and government operations and to encourage everyone to adopt meaningful measures to mitigate those threats. It’s no secret that the legal community’s initial cyberthreat response was, well, discouraging.…

The promise of artificial intelligence technologies captured the imagination of the legal community in a big way in 2023. None more so than “generative artificial intelligence,” which has the ability to create pleadings and correspondence, and to summarize source materials, that approximate the work of a well-informed, legally trained human being. Artificial intelligence also has…

Depositions are a potent pretrial discovery and trial preparation tool. They allow parties to gather information regarding any non-privileged matter that is relevant to a party’s claim or defense. Through depositions, litigators are able to evaluate the credibility of potential witnesses, authenticate key documents, gain admissions that might narrow the scope of issues to be…