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2 weeks ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Jordan Furlong
This month’s column is aimed at Gen-Xers like me and the Boomers who preceded us in the legal profession. Readers in your 20s, 30s, and 40s – I’ll catch you next time out. Preparing a talk the other day, I realized with a mild shock that last month, I celebrated the 30th anniversary of my call to the bar. Although maybe “celebrated” isn’t quite the right word – “commemorated”?
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2 weeks ago | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong
This month’s column is aimed at Gen-Xers like me and the Boomers who preceded us in the legal profession. Readers in your 20s, 30s, and 40s – I’ll catch you next time out. Preparing a talk the other day, I realized with a mild shock that last month, I celebrated the 30th anniversary of my call to the bar. Although maybe “celebrated” isn’t quite the right word – “commemorated”?
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3 weeks ago | 
llrx.com | Jordan Furlong
The more you study how Generative AI works, the more parallels emerge with how lawyers think — and that has implications. With Gen AI getting better every day, we need to get our act together, fast. I really thought we were past this. After the Mata v.
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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Andrew Martin |Jordan Furlong |Marcelo Osorio Rodriguez |Marcelo D. Rodríguez |Sarah Sutherland
Posted in: Civility and its importance are contested in the Canadian legal profession and the Canadian legal academy. [1] Moreover, civility and the broader concept of professionalism have a shameful history as exclusionary concepts with significant negative impact on the ability of members of equity-seeking groups to join the legal profession and succeed in the practice of law.
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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Marcelo Osorio Rodriguez |Marcelo D. Rodríguez |Sarah Sutherland |Robert Diab
Whatever its faults (and there are more than a few), “the rule of law” underpins democracy as a bulwark against authoritarianism. It is not only the system of laws that does this, but the actors who are most closely aligned with ensuring that the rule of law works: the judges and lawyers. Nothing makes the intent of creating an authoritarian system more evident than undermining the judiciary and lawyers. That the judiciary must be independent is well-known. Less so lawyers.
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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Marcelo Osorio Rodriguez |Marcelo D. Rodríguez |Sarah Sutherland |Robert Diab
Posted in: If you had asked both a Canadian and an American, in the last several weeks, “What do you think about the mess at the country’s largest legal regulator?”, you would’ve had two separate conversations about two separate messes, which together speak to a single big problem for lawyer self-regulation.
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2 months ago | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Marcelo Osorio Rodriguez |Marcelo D. Rodríguez |Sarah Sutherland |Robert Diab
Territories have the unique characteristic of being both in and out at the same time. Despite their massive differences in all areas, you can easily spot the “territory” due to this in and out feature. Whether they are called a special administrative unit, dependency, self-governing, autonomous nation, outermost/overseas department, etc., once you have identified this in and out cycle, it’s fair to assume that you’re working with a territory, despite the elaborate names these places tend to have.
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
llrx.com | Jordan Furlong
In a chaotic world, you can’t sit back waiting for the next bombshell to drop. You need to anticipate, analyze, and address critical new developments — before they affect your firm and its clients. Let’s do a quick recap, shall we? The government of the United States is taking punitive action against two large American law firms in retaliation for their current and past representation of high-profile adversaries of Donald Trump.
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Mar 26, 2025 | 
slaw.ca | Jordan Furlong |Marcelo Osorio Rodriguez |Marcelo D. Rodríguez |Sarah Sutherland |Robert Diab
An email from a faculty member at the University of Toronto on the topic of AI made the rounds at law schools across Canada recently. It’s about using AI on final exams. It points out that if a student has an app already open when they launch Examplify – the software most schools use to administer exams – they will have access to that app while writing the exam. This could be a browser with Lexis+AI or the app version of ChatGPT, which would still be online during the exam.
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Mar 20, 2025 | 
llrx.com | Jordan Furlong
“If anyone’s going to speak up, it should be law firms. If anyone’s going to take a stand, it should be law firms.”As you may have heard, Donald Trump is punishing law firm Covington & Burling for giving pro bono representation to former special counsel Jack Smith. His executive order canceled security clearances for members of the firm and directed government agencies to review all contracts with the firm for legal work.
