Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Oct. 22, 2026
Can a party get away with using an AI attorney? Sometimes!
As AI advances and remote appearances become routine, California cases involving unlicensed lawyers suggest that even discovering opposing counsel was artificial may not be enough to overturn a favorable result.
Tani G. Cantil Sakauye Courthouse
George A. Acero
Judge
Trial; Fee Waivers, Hrgs, Minor's Comp
UC Berkeley SOL; Berkeley CA
"Get Out of Jail Free" card. It's a card in the game Monopoly. For those of you too young to know the game, it meant that you could use the card once you landed in jail. But the card was not a "never go to jail" card. As will be explained below, this distinction is relevant to why the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Aug. 10th in <...
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