Vol. 4 No. 27 | July 3, 2024
Courts
No published opinions this week.
- 2024 OK CR 17: CASH v. STATE
No published opinions this week.
Dispositions Other than by Published Opinions
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma Court Calendar
The Supreme Court of Oklahoma is in session year round, unless otherwise noted. The court regularly schedules conferences on Mondays and other days as needed.
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Bar Center Holiday Hours
The Oklahoma Bar Center will close at 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, and remain closed on Thursday, July 4, in recognition of the Independence Day holiday.
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence; however, the document was not actually signed until nearly a month later, on Aug. 2. Of the 56 delegates who signed the declaration, 25 were lawyers. The National Archives maintains a list of the signers, including ages, locations and occupations.
The deadline for online registration for the 2024 Annual Meeting is Monday, July 8 at noon. Walk-in registration will be open throughout the meeting, and we hope to see you there! This year’s meeting, July 10-12 at the Embassy Suites in Norman, will give OBA members a chance to gather and learn in a relaxed and informal setting. Come as you are, bring your families and be prepared to learn, grow and connect in a vacation-type setting.
And don’t forget to register for next week’s one-day artificial intelligence conference – Artificial Intelligence: Shaping the Future of Law Practice – held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting. You can register for this conference alone or as an add-on to your Annual Meeting registration!
"Real property investor Louis Glickman quipped, 'The best investment on Earth is earth.' In recent years, markets have bolstered his point with prices soaring to historic highs in many locales. We have all heard the adage, 'buy low, sell high.' For your clients who are charitably inclined and own appreciated property, it rings equally true 'to buy low and donate high,' as this has the double bonus of increasing your clients’ tax savings and maximizing the impact of the clients’ gifts overall. While buyers lament the current accessibility and cost of purchasing property, in the current seller’s market, donors and charitable organizations alike reap substantial rewards from real property donations."
Attendees at this year's Annual Meeting can make a splash while supporting a very worthwhile cause! At the conclusion of the House of Delegates meeting on Friday, July 12, OBA President Miles Pringle and other special guests will sit perched atop a tank of ice-cold water, awaiting your best pitch. Donate to dunk! Proceeds will benefit the Lawyers Helping Lawyers Foundation to support OBA members who are struggling with mental health and addiction challenges.
We want to feature your work in the Oklahoma Bar Journal. "The Back Page" is a space for attorneys to share their creative work. Submit advice or articles related to the legal field, share something transforming or intriguing, or show off your photography skills. Email your submissions of roughly 500 words or high-resolution photos to OBA Communications Director Lori Rasmussen.
"As a practicing trial lawyer for more than 40 years, I have always worked from home, but it was always in addition to, not in lieu of, working in the office. On Saturdays, I regularly came to the office to check the mail, and on Sundays, I convinced myself that I needed to go into the office to organize for the upcoming week. The office was always my favorite place, holding an allure that could not be denied."
Featured CLE
By OBA MAP Director Jim Calloway
Last week, in this space, I discussed that the Snipping Tool can now extract text from images you snip. For many, the Holy Grail was when would text recognition tools be able to recognize handwritten notes, especially cursive, and extract the text. That day has arrived. The tool to do so is free to use.
“When OpenAI supercharged the free version of ChatGPT with GPT-4o in May, users gained the ability to upload files, including images and documents, and to interact with images in multiple ways, such as extracting text,” according to a recent ZDNET post, "How to use ChatGPT to digitize your handwritten notes for free."
For years, I’ve been telling lawyers to scan their handwritten notes and file them in the digital client file so that the lawyer has a complete digital client file, even if the notes are not searchable. But now ChatGPT’s artificial intelligence capabilities can accomplish this, and its parent company, OpenAI, has decided to include that in the free version of ChatGPT. You do have to set up an account and log in to access this feature.
One caveat is that handwritten notes are often about client matters. I think it is very important that all lawyers protect client confidentiality by telling ChatGPT not to use your queries or notes to further train the database. It turns out it’s now easy to stop OpenAI from training the chatbot by using your data with its privacy portal to select “do not train on my content.” One author shows the steps and says it only takes three minutes to get it done.
Artificial intelligence privacy protection tips like this are among the things you can learn at next week’s AI Conference, Artificial Intelligence: Shaping the Future of Law Practice. More information and the registration is available on our website.
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