On an evening that featured a heartfelt tribute to former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who died last December, former Justice Anthony M. Kennedy told judges, attorneys and academics at the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference Monday that they "have the duty to advance the cause of civility."
Kennedy, a Sacramento native who turned 88 on Tuesday and served on the Supreme Court for more than three decades until his retirement in 2018, spoke during the conference's opening program to an audience that included his former colleague, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, and praised U.S. law schools as "the greatest educational establishments in the world."
And the DJ has 9th Circuit conference opens with a review of Supreme Court's term -- "This was a John Roberts term," Stanford Law School professor Jeffrey L. Fisher told attorneys and judges at the conference in Sacramento.
An afternoon session on generative artificial intelligence featured an eye-catching opening by Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP partner Miriam Kim, who played a video introducing the panel and the topic. She then asked the audience in a Sacramento ballroom if they realized the person in the video was not her, but her avatar. Many people raised their hands, indicating they had been fooled.
'Is This in Fact Real or Not?' 9th Circuit Conference Delves Into AI Issues in Federal Courts -- Even as generative artificial intelligence horror stories abound in the legal world, experts urged judges not to entirely discount its potential benefits.
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