Hey, do we have a Chicago area tax lawyer in network?

Ok. A wild, silly, and strange legal ethics question, inspired by real events and bad ideas I wouldn’t act on (this would absolutely be my exam if I was teaching this right now). You had a represented opposing party you know goes to ChatGPT and uploads all filings. (1/x)

So, I need to get a new laptop. For 6 years I’ve had a thinkpad that had wild technical issues, but still WORKED. I’m thinking I might get something that would allow SOME gaming. But it also has be work friendly and light enough for travel. Anyone have something they love (or just don’t hate)?

With a short deadline, I wanted to poke at all the AI and law watchers here: I feel like I’ve seen a judge say, “LLM queries cannot be cited for facts” (as distinct from cases), but I can’t immediately find the relevant sanctions (or other) order. Anyone remember which case(s) cover that?

All election litigation is NY election litigation now!

It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face. If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.

Nearly 15,000 NYSNA nurses from Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Morningside and West, Montefiore, and NewYork-Presbyterian are on strike today because greedy hospital management have given frontline nurses no other choice.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

The “everything app,” by Monkey’s Paw.

Civ Pro heads, has there been any major case law development about pleading FACTS since 1990? I just have NO idea!

Thanks so much to @davidforbes.bsky.social and the team at @transnews.network for giving me the opportunity to speak about my experiences at the nyt, whose work has had such a profoundly negative effect on the lives of all queer ppl.

LLMs have reinvented the wildly bizarre fan sub, sans charm.

“New York” cc: @ifbookspod.bsky.social

Smart toilet, more like fart toilet. (Got ‘em)

Pink Floyd (the one time, for three songs, that would be possible in my adult life) Bowie Ima Robot Saul Williams NIN

ANDALITE

There is much more to say, but this seems straightforwardly right. And the amount Purcell has strayed from its own mooring in reasoning (things like late changes in voting sites can actually cause confusion) is a kind of legal cancer.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

The two genders!

Without disclosing anything specific: Have any other lawyers seen a giant uptick in people sending in ChatGPT summaries of their potential claims, or things like a “counsel retention packet”? I’d be very interested to hear how others are handling this—we tend to see it as a red flag. 1/2

I've said it before, and I will say it again. We need courageous leaders that put working families at the center of all they do. 8 democrats caving to empty promises is an indefensible leadership failure For the sake of our country, Schumer needs to resign.

Yes, except that each cat has both of these cats inside them.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

I couldn’t tell you exactly why, but this picture of my hand I took makes me looks like a Simpson.

Sounds like he has knowledge from personal experience, then.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

So, binging some recent diegetic diss tracks that slap. A Huntrix / Scylla and the Sirens tour would be incredible. But who opens? (part of the answer is obviously that either way they do a slow transition single set, like Bowie/NIN in the 90s, but, who goes first?)

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion. As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

The NYC Department of Correction is extremely serious about projecting an image of reform, lawfulness, and considered, sober judgment these days, so it has decided to rename its Lower Manhattan jail complex after... multiply disgraced criminal Bernie Kerik. hellgatenyc.com/city-jail-na...

At least if we take precedent seriously, this is… not a threat. Yes; it’s unhinged. But it is exactly the kind of speech SCOTUS has consistently said is neither imminent nor threatening. It’s saying someone should do something LATER. You can’t distinguish it from Brandenburg’s “revengence.”

And here I thought there couldn’t be a worse version of vibe lawyering than an octogenarian shouting a brief into a dictaphone and filing the result without reviewing it.

This is unambiguously correct.

This case of ours involves some wild foot stomping by the City’s police unions — and City officials all too willing to cooperate with those tantrums. I am rather excited to get into discovery with the unions here…

NY law says that you can't deny people employment just because they have a criminal record. But after police unions launched a campaign to get a CCRB investigator with a criminal record fired, he lost his job. Yesterday, he sued the CCRB and the unions. hellgatenyc.com/ccrb-employm...

Yesterday, we released our 2025 annual report. There are a *lot* of numbers, but the tl;dr? Hell Gate has been growing! Read the report here: hellgatenyc.com/hell-gate-20...

This understates how bananas the citation is. This citation format suggests ChatGPT published something that was called “What does monkey ass mean?” But following the permalink, there is a kind of low quality screenshot of a chat log, not titled, but with that text in the chat. (1/2)

Omfg Eric Adams with the AI slop.

There seems to be a distinct lack of commentary on Cuomo and Adams’ continued campaign against a democratic nominee by those talking about “blue no matter who” unity around Newsom. Curious.

Cuomo out here trying to become the “The rent is TOO DAMN LOW” guy.

I think a lot about this in two ways. First, what Sean is describing IS what Fraenkel describes as fascism’s Dual State. The structure of unlimited and arbitrary discretion in the prerogative state relies on the continued functioning of the Normative State. (1/x)

OH HEY. Literally in one of these sanctions decisions, someone saying a paralegal could do the research in responding. bsky.app/profile/eric...

This is a terrific thread. One of the scariest things about being a supervisor is that you stake your license and reputation on the work of others, trusting in your ability to hire and train. If I did everything myself, I wouldn't need my team. But no one would pay me to do everything myself.

I'm going to go ahead and say this as approval of that practice. There is absolutely no reason why anyone should be expected to double-check the accuracy of a partner-level attorney's description of a case or its holding. An associate? Sure because you're worried that they aren't experienced enough

I think the spirit of this is right, but one thing that — the word isn’t quite “troubles,” but let’s say — troubles me about this is that it is significantly disconnected from some of real practice. I don’t say this as approval of that practice. But, it IS a reality. (1/x)

It’s kind of strange to be super excited about something and boasting about it, given, well… *gestures* BUT! I am extremely, extremely excited that we just launched our new website, and it’s GORGEOUS. www.femmelaw.com

🍆, but literal!!

Picking battles in cases decided on the merits is categorically inconsistent with the rule of law. Even in its own terms, this piece does not hold together. As soon as a court does not apply the law in order to save The Law, law qua law no longer exists.

In which Eric Adams confirms he is not a New Yorker.