Lawyering

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To maximize the chances of having a summary judgment victory affirmed on appeal, defense lawyers must make the correct evidentiary objections in the trial court. Two traps for the unwary lurk in the temptation to object that the plaintiff’s evidence is “self-serving” or “inadmissible.”

A judge for the Business Court of Texas recently weighed in on the growing issue of whether non-lawyers’ “chats” with publicly available generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools or large language models (LLM) are protected attorney work product, denying a defendant’s demand that a plaintiff turn over certain conversations with an AI tool under the attorney work-product protection.