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Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence in Your Law Practice

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of generating content such as text, images, and videos based on generative models. Using it can create efficiencies to make you more productive, but it also raises ethical concerns. Generative AI is one of the biggest opportunities and challenges to come to the legal profession since the advent of the Internet.

Danger: Curves Ahead: Advanced Legal Descriptions

In the transfer of real property, it is universally required that the deed and many related documents include a written legal description of the property that gives its precise location and delineates its boundaries.

Metes, bounds, lots, blocks, and curves—every real estate attorney, paralegal, title agent, and support staff person will benefit from a better understanding how legal descriptions are derived, and be able to plot one with a reasonable degree of accuracy.