Today's DJ has PJ Gilbert's It was a dark and stormy January 2025 -- Taking a cue from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's much maligned opening sentence, your columnist is on the hunt for legal submissions that stand out for all the wrong reasons, with prizes for the best submissions -- in which he requests submissions for "a contest consisting of three categories: 1. The poorest first sentence of an appellant's opening brief; 2. The poorest first sentence of a respondent's brief; 3. The poorest opening sentence of an appellate opinion." Send entries to Diana_Bosetti@dailyjournal.com.
Myron Moskovit'z column is A brief with no case cites? Are cases and citations truly essential to winning legal arguments, or do compelling facts and policy arguments matter more? -- in which he ponders just how useful case citations are in briefing.
Law360 has AI Chatbots Will Transform Legal Scholarship, AI Chatbot Says
Andrew M. Perlman, the dean of Suffolk University Law School in Boston, posted the 30-page paper, titled "Generative AI and the Future of Legal Scholarship," to the Social Science Research Network late last month. The article was drafted using OpenAI's software based on a query written by Perlman that references legal scholarship.
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