Magazine Archive

  • Practice Management
  • March 2024
The Modern Office and How to Avoid Paper Cuts

When I started practicing law in the 1990s we, collectively as a society, were giving up our IBM Selectric typewriters and migrating towards personal computers. We brought paper files to court, spread them out on our conference room tables, and hand-wrote stipulations at court using pink, blue, yellow, and white carbon paper forms. It is...

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  • The Law and Technology
  • March 2024
Productive Use of Artificial Intelligence in a Law Firm

As a legal practitioner, you’re likely acquainted, at least to some extent, with the concept of generative artificial intelligence, or generative AI. This advanced form of artificial intelligence has the capacity to produce text, images, or other media in response to given prompts. Essentially, generative AI operates by repeatedly asking a fundamental question: “Given the...

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  • Access to Justice
  • March 2024
CCCBA Honors Port Chicago Heros from the Deadliest Stateside Disaster of World War II

At the annual installation and awards lunch on January 19, the CCCBA conferred awards on three African-American sailors who served at Port Chicago during World War II. The CCCBA’s Port Chicago Task Force recognized the sailors with Port Chicago Hero Awards, noting their courage in the face of adversity before, during and after the Port...

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