| Volume 111 Number 8 |
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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
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Google Using Artificial Intelligence to Fight Spam
In the never ending battle against spam, Google is now using artificial intelligence to root out clever spam e-mails and keep them out of user’s inboxes. In general, spam filters learn what is spam when you mark messages as spam. The new technology seeks to improve on that by identifying spam tailored to look like legitimate emails.
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Do you understand how the Social Security spousal benefit works? For married couples, which spouse files for benefits first and how can have an impact on the total amount of social security benefits the couple receives. Follow this link to see how the spousal benefit can affect your benefits depending upon when and how you file. Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
The ABA Ethics Committee has issued Opinion 471, interpreting Model Rules 1.15 (Safekeeping property) and 1.16(d) (Protecting client’s interest on termination of representation). Based on a prior 1977 informal opinion, the Committee again endorsed the “end-product” approach followed by a minority of jurisdictions where the client is not entitled to the entire file at the termination of representation, but only documents that are the end product of the lawyer’s services. The opinion holds that the lawyer is not required to automatically surrender material that may have led up to the creation of that end product. Click here for more.