When a lawyer messes up by using an AI platform that produces mistakes, they might get sanctioned by a judge. When a judge messes up using an AI platform, “it could become precedent. So, it’s a much different conversation.” Judge Scott Schlegel, of Louisiana’s Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, speaks from his experience
This is the first post in a series I’m calling “Flipping the Script,” inspired by Episode 162 of the Texas Appellate Law Podcast. The series examines what Texas appellate courts could do to make appellate practice better.
Two Texas Supreme Court transparency tools that genuinely helped practitioners do their jobs have disappeared. Both should come
I have clients who don’t know where I live. Not my home address—the city.
That reality became clear when I recently saw a client in person for the first time since before we started working together several years ago. Great client: pays his bills, no drama, easy to work with. Somewhere in the conversation it
The final version of rewritten Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 166a—the summary judgment rule—became effective March 1, 2026. In this episode, Michael Duncan, an appellate and motions practitioner in Austin who clerked for a Texas Supreme Court justice, unpacks the updated rule with hosts Todd Smith and Jody Sanders. Together, they examine what