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By  Valerie C. David This article will discuss artificial intelligence, with a specific focus on ChatGPT and its role in the legal realm. AI is Everywhere! Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) is paralleled with the same evolutionary path as the splitting of the atom.[1]  Perhaps that is why many are hesitant to embrace it.  Indeed, the “darker...Read More

By David W. Henry This article aims to identify and cure a species of mediation malpractice.  The putative error or species of mediator malpractice (so to speak) is in allowing the parties to create a document that purports to resolve the dispute but which in truth is an unenforceable agreement to agree.  “Agreements to agree”...Read More

By: Deedee Bitran, Esq. Shutts and Bowen LLP Last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) sued a Florida-based McDonald’s franchisee (Houcorp, Inc.) for allegedly failing to accommodate a deaf job applicant under the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). The Complaint alleges that a job applicant who is hard of hearing requested and was denied...Read More