Recently, two friends reached out to me to review letters they had recently sent out to their respective landlords pertaining to issues with the return of their security deposits. Both letters were ...

Lynn White was out of options. Allegedly behind on rent payments to her trailer park in Long Beach, California, and facing an eviction notice, she worked with a lawyer from a local tenant advocacy ...

Sweeney participated in a webinar sponsored by the Colorado Defense Lawyers Association, whose members may appear on behalf of clients sued by self-represented, or "pro se," plaintiffs. Although pro ...

Flash back to 2013. New firms began to use machine-language to mine trends and insights from legal databases. Their output looked an awful lot like legal advice, even if it was generated by algorithms ...

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In Berman v. Matteucci, a pro se prisoner sought to file a belated habeas petition, claiming that he had just learned about a possible legal basis for his appeal using ChatGPT. No, said Judge Michael ...

To help address a critical gap in access to justice, a new practicum is putting UB Law students to work in Erie County Family Court and Buffalo’s federal District Court. The students are there not to ...

Pro se litigant Von Scott filed a complaint against Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) in the Superior Court, seeking to void a foreclosure judgment entered in FNMA’s favor and to set aside ...

Moshe Avram Perry lost his bid to the CAFC today when a per curiam decision upheld the U.S. District Court for the Eastern ...