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- A bill under consideration by the New York state legislature would prohibit AI chatbots from providing legal advice, and allow users to sue chatbot owners who violate the ban. Senate Bill S7263 targets AI chatbots that impersonate licensed professionals—such as doctors and lawyers—and bars them from providing “substantive response, information, or advice” that would violate professional licensing laws or constitute the unauthorized practice of law. (StateScoop)
- Massachusetts commercial litigator Corey Martin has been volunteering to help immigrant families detained in Texas, where she says most of her clients include children. Martin has made several trips to Texas to assist detained families as the practice of detaining children resumed in 2025, and helped secure the release of a 7-year-old girl and her mother by filing a habeas petition after the child’s health and mental state deteriorated during more than 40 days in custody. (The Boston Globe)
- Trial and government lawyer Joseph E. McGettigan III, the former Pennsylvania senior deputy attorney general, died of lung inflammation. McGettigan worked for four Philadelphia district attorneys over two stints in City Hall and spent a year in Iraq in 2008 and 2009 as a US government resident legal adviser. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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