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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9692246" data-attributes="member: 19675">Re: integrity The Texas Bar Journal judicial action section is full of sanction announcements clearly involving attorneys who either stopped caring about good practice & ethics or never did.And as for the intellectual side?When I studied fraud in formal academic settings, I learned that being smart does not immunize you from making profoundly stupid decisions.  Among other things, we discussed educated professionals- engineers, lawyers, doctors, research scientists, and others- who got taken all while believing they were too smart to be scammed.  We even talked about grifters who tailored their scams to such people, in part by actively targeting their ego.The point?  AI has a BIG marketing push behind it.  It’s “the next big thing”.  And there’s already CLE* courses alleging they can teach you how to use it in your practice, as well as committees suggesting that understanding AI in the practice context should be considered a legal requirement for professional competency.  So it’s not a huge surprise to find smart but ego-driven attorneys who have gotten a bit too comfortable with their status in the legal hierarchy believing the hype and not understanding the risks of using the tool.* Continuing Legal Education</blockquote>