Margaret Hannon

Indeed.

I would like to see them try, Peter

So very sorry, Adam.

😘

So very sorry for your loss, Raffi. May his memory be for a blessing.

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Happy Thanksgiving from our turkey to yours!

This is good 1L exam advice from Prof. Kerr. But I feel the need to provide an addendum: While this A+ answer is undoubtedly an A+ answer for a timed in-class exam in a doctrinal class, it would *not* receive a high grade in my legal writing class. Timed in-class exam answers are their own thing! 1/

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Peter:

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Timeline cleanse

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How it started/how it’s going #Caturday

can't stop won't stop

Adam.

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Mission accomplished!

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How it started/how it’s going #Caturday

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That would obviously be less comfortable

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Happy Howl-o-ween!

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Current mood (AWS):

You Now Can (Should?) Cite Search and AI-Generated Results No 2025 update would be complete without something AI-related. The Bluebook is no exception. Rule 18.3 provides citation rules for outputs from large language models, search engine results, and generative AI. The citation must generally include: (1) the author of the prompt, (2) the model or service used, and (3) the exact text of the prompt submission or search query. Perhaps you can see the problems. First, requiring the full text of a search query or AI prompt will make these citations extremely long. Queries are not always short. And AI prompts often include a series of back-and-forth questions and answers to produce a specific result. These citations are going to be monstrous.

More importantly, to the extent the citation requires inclusion of your own search queries and prompt questions, The Bluebook asks you to divulge the internal thinking and questioning processes that led you to a result. In other words, the citation will include attorney work product. Yikes! But there is good news. First, The Bluebook doesn’t say that anyone must provide a citation for search results or AI content. Rather, the updated rules provide guidance for what to do when an author wants to cite this kind of information. As a lawyer, you could simply choose not to cite these things. Would you ever support an argument in a brief with a citation to the Lexis search query that produced the results that supported the argument? Of course not. And The Bluebook can’t make you.

Which leads me to my second bit of good news: These clunky search-related and AI-related rules are all located in The Bluebook’s Whitepages, which are specifically designed for law review students and academic authors. Those rules generally do not apply to practicing lawyers and judges. The simpler Bluepages, which are designed for legal practitioners, do not include these new rules. And while a lawyer may use the Whitepages rules to supplement the Blue- pages, you certainly don’t have to. Review: What a mess. Practicing lawyers and judges should not use these rules to cite their search processes.

I recommend that lawyers and judges *ignore* The Bluebook's new rule on AI and search results. (They don't need to follow it anyway!)

"What a mess. Practicing lawyers and judges should *not* use these rules to cite their search processes."

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#AI #LegalWriting #LawSky

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cat! in the dog bed

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#Caturday

This is bad bad bad. The legal profession needs serious education on how LLMs work.

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Here is Rocky, pondering whether he is floofy enough

ME TOO ALICE

We have now installed self-closing hinges on our gate

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Here is Foggy the kitten preventing Rocky from coming upstairs, in case that makes you smile

A screenshot of Legal Boolean Search Builder. The tool allows you to build a Boolean search by creating and connecting multiple concepts. The first concept has `Boolean` in the first field and then `term /3 connector` in the second field. The second concept reads `search`. The search string output then reads `(Boolean OR (term /3 connector)) and (search)

I made this Boolean Search Builder to help teach my students how to construct a good search. It's way too much fun to make these little instructional tools. booleanbuilder.replit.app

Terrifying! So glad you are ok, all things considered.

I think that means something else entirely