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It’s Halloween—a season of ghosts, goblins, and spooky surprises. But one of the scariest things you can leave behind for your family isn’t a haunted house. It’s your digital ghosts—unprotected online accounts, lost passwords, and forgotten assets that come back to haunt your loved ones.

What Are Digital Ghosts?

  • A Facebook account that can’t be closed or memorialized.
  • A crypto wallet that disappears without the key.
  • Online bills or subscriptions no one knows about.
  • Photos, music, or videos locked

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Earlier this month, I had the privilege of making my annual trip to Wisconsin Dells to attend the 2025 Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference. As with each year of the conference, it was a reminder that, even as attorneys characterize themselves with independence (solo and small firm attorneys especially so), community is essential. Solo and small firm attorneys face unique challenges of managing law firm operations themselves, including client intake, billing, legal research, and even drafting blog…
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Assembly Bill 281 (Senate Bill 287) would require certain Wisconsin employers to participate in the federal E-Verify program. The proposed mandate would apply to state agencies and local government units within Wisconsin. In addition, bidders on state contracts subject to the low-bid process would be required to enroll in E-Verify to qualify to bid.

Insight from Ruder Ware Government & Public Affairs Team:

Assembly Bill 281 was recently approved by the Assembly Committee on Commerce, and its…
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Imagine this: your family tries to log into your email or PayPal account after you pass away, but they’re blocked. Without proper planning, your digital assets could be locked forever, no matter how valuable they are.
That’s why legal tools matter.

The Problem with “Just Sharing Passwords”
Handing over a password list may sound easy, but it’s not legally recognized. In fact, it could violate privacy laws or user agreements. To ensure your digital assets are handled properly, you

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Read Part 1: AI in Employment-Related Decisions Part 1: Big Tech and Federal Power

Across the country, state lawmakers are recalibrating their approaches to regulating the use of AI in employment decisions. This is in direct response to pressure from the technology industry and the Trump administration.

California initially considered broad mandates on AI use in hiring that would have imposed strict notice and impact assessment requirements on employers. Following pushback from industry groups and concerns about federal overreach,

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State lawmakers across the country have been busy this year trying to curb the most consequential uses of AI in employment-related decisions. As those attempts moved from idea to legislation, two powerful forces have pushed back.

The tech industry is concerned about a patchwork of state rules, and the Trump administration has prioritized removing barriers to AI use. States are reacting by shifting their strategies to narrow, revise, and/or delay legislation. Employers would be wise to stay abreast of…
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Lawyers who fail to verify AI-generated content do so at their own peril – and now, potentially at the peril of fee awards. A California Court of Appeals decision adds a new wrinkle to the growing body of AI hallucination cases by asking: What happens when opposing counsel fails to detect an opponent’s fake citations?

A Familiar Story with an Unexpected Twist
In Noland v. Land of the Free, L.P., the attorney used ChatGPT to enhance his appellate briefs…
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The rush to integrate AI is understandable. New tools promise faster drafting, richer research, and smoother operations. Adoption alone, however, is not enough. When powerful systems land in people’s hands without a shared understanding of how to use them well, the risks expand as quickly as the possibilities. A parallel track in AI literacy changes that. It develops users who are curious, appropriately skeptical, and legally careful. It also tends to produce better work.

By AI literacy, I mean…
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While generally considered a business-friendly state, Texas is taking an increasingly important role in regulating how U.S. companies use their information technology.

Over the past few years, Texas has adopted path-breaking new data privacy and AI laws with potentially broad impacts for businesses—including those in the Midwest—that have Texas customers, and its attorney general is actively enforcing these laws in the marketplace. As the second-largest economy in the U.S., it’s time for businesses to pay more attention to what

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On June 26, 2025, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) announced that a Remote Patient Monitoring (“RPM”) provider (“Company”) and its physician owner, paid $1.29 million to settle allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare under the False Claims Act (“FCA”). This settlement highlights the increased growth in RPM services, while noting the government’s scrutiny of such services.

RPM involves using electronic devices to remotely monitor a patient’s health beyond the capabilities of a traditional clinical setting. These devices transmit…
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Firefox 131 released in October 2024 gained the ability to link to a specific text fragment inside a web page by including #:~:text= followed by the text fragment to link to.

But, that feature is turned off by default. To turn on this feature, first go to your about:congfig page and click through the warning. Then search for fragment in the search box.

Firefox fragment search in about:config

To turn on this feature,

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At OG+S, we’re committed to staying ahead of the curve as technologies evolve — not for the sake of change itself, but because smarter tools help us serve clients better and create a more effective work environment for our team.

In today’s rapidly shifting legal landscape – efficiency, security, and flexibility are critical. That’s why we’ve been actively reviewing and improving our technology stack: ensuring that the tools we use support how we work today, while also positioning us…
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Systems of Governance in the Age of AI

Governance, at its core, is about how we relate to one another. It is not just about laws or procedures. It is about who is heard, how power moves, who decides what matters, and how decisions are made real through collective agreement. Governance lives not only in legislatures or courtrooms, but in families, organizations, and everyday relationships.

Most governance systems rely on fixed tools: constitutions, codes, and legal frameworks that are…
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Long gone are the days when simply stuffing articles with keywords was enough to climb search rankings. With changes to search engine AI programming, the focus has shifted to providing high-quality content that serves the needs of web users.
As an attorney, keeping abreast of changes to key digital marketing tactics is crucial to making informed choices and having knowledgeable conversations with your marketing and SEO teams. Whether your firm outsources your legal marketing or handle your content in-house,

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I’ve been thinking about a question raised by Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, in his recent piece, “The Urgency of Interpretability.” He writes about the increasing power of artificial intelligence systems and our unsettling lack of insight into how they actually work. The models are getting stronger. Our ability to understand them is not.

This isn’t just a technical concern. Increasingly, these systems are showing up in places that carry legal, ethical, and practical significance. Mortgage determinations, hiring tools,…
Continue Reading How Can We Trust What We Don’t Understand?

The Free Law Project recently announced its intention to build a citator using AI.

If successful, the emergence of an open-access, open-source legal citator would be significant to both practitioners and the public.  Citators, such as Shepard’s and KeyCite, answer the foundational question of whether the case law you are using is good law, bad law, or somewhere in between.  FLP’s mission is to “democratize access to this crucial information for small law firms, independent researchers, self-represented litigants,…
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