THE MAGAZINE FOR TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL FALL 2023 WHAT LAW PRACTICES MUST KNOW Arrival of AI The2 Temple Law School Temple ESQ. is published by the Temple University Beasley School of Law for alumni and friends. Dean and James E. Beasley Professor of Law Rachel Rebouché Content, Art Direction and Design Leapfrog Group Photography Ryan Brandenberg Rick Kauffman Kelly & Massa Joseph V. Labolito Contributors Books Schatschneider Lori Woehrle Send letters and comments to: lawalum@temple.edu Temple ESQ. James E. Beasley School of Law 1719 N. Broad St. Philadelphia, PA 19122 To change your email, home or office address: law.temple.edu/resources/alumni/contact-update Board of Visitors Joseph William Anthony ’74 Dennis A. Arouca ’77 Kila B. Baldwin, Esq. ’04 ’10 Leonard Barrack ’68, Chair The Honorable Phyllis W. Beck ’67 Mitchell W. Berger ’80 Daniel S. Bernheim, III, Esq. ’94 Ellan Rubin Bernstein, Esq. ’83 Nadeem A. Bezar ’91 Vijay V. Bondada ’94 James A. Bruton III ’75 Anthony Warner Clark ’79 Richard T. Collier ’79 Doneene Keemer Damon ’92 Carolyn Chernick Davis ’87 Alan M. Feldman ’76 Allan M. Fox ’72 Koji Fukumura, Esq. ’93 Frederick S. Humphries Jr. ’86 Hayes A. Hunt ’97 Marina Kats ’88 Leonard M. Klehr ’76 Susanna Lachs ’78 John B. Langel ’74 Judy L. Leone, Esq. ’84 Marsha L. Levick ’76 Vincent J. Marella ’72 The Honorable Theodore A. McKee William R. McLucas ’75 William J. Merritt ’87 Leslie Anne Miller ’94 Mitchell L. Morgan ’80 Stephen J. Neuberger ’03 Samuel H. Pond ’84 Marcel S. Pratt ’09 Grant Rawdin ’87 Abraham Charles Reich ’74 The Honorable L. Felipe Restrepo Gilbert T. Schwartz ’74 The Honorable Anthony J. Scirica Ambassador Martin J. Silverstein ’79 James T. Smith ’83 Eugene Arthur Spector ’70 Joe Tucker ’89 James A. Walden ’91 Richard H. Walker ’75 Bette Jean Walters ’70 Mission Statement Temple University Beasley School of Law is committed to excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship and service. The faculty is dedicated to preparing students to enter and continue in the legal profession with the highest level of skill possible, with a firm commitment to the principles of professional responsibility and with a sense of personal obligation to lead and to serve the communities in which they live and practice. We are dedicated to our foundational ideal of making legal education accessible to all talented individuals, including individuals who otherwise might not have that opportunity or who might encounter barriers because of race, creed, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, socioeconomic background, or other personal characteristics. We endeavor to create and sustain a Law School community that is diverse, inclusive and committed to equal justice under the law. 2 AMICUS CURIAE From the Dean 16 TOP 10 TIPS For Getting to Know AI 17 STUDENT SPOTLIGHT 18 EVENTS 22 FACULTY NOTES 24 ALUMNI NOTES 28 IN MEMORIAM CONTENTS HAS BANKRUPTCY BEEN HIJACKED? Purdue Pharma Spotlights Liability Shield 12 THE ARRIVAL OF AI What Law Practices Must Know 4 BETWEEN TWO DEANS Epps Focuses on Student, Community Investment 142 Temple Law School AMICUS CURIAE Temple Law School has a long history of leading through change and preparing our students to do so as well.” “ 3 ESQ. FALL 2023 The environment in which legal practice takes place — the assortment of settings, technologies and social norms that shape our work — has undergone extraordinary change in a relatively short period of time. The Great Recession brought structural change to both legal education and law firm life, while the COVID-19 pandemic shifted almost all of our work online and introduced a digital dimension to our daily routines. This issue of ESQ. magazine addresses yet another potentially seismic development — the rise of artificial intelligence. AI seems to be everywhere these days, and promises to disrupt, revolutionize or forever change the practice of law as we know it, depending on whom you ask. We asked Sam Hodge ’74, who believes it will do all of those things, and Director of the Law Library Gabriela Femenia, who cautions that AI is no substitute for human judgment, to walk us through its promise — and peril. Like most powerful technologies, they tell us it holds plenty of both (p.4). We also checked in with our Center for Public Health Law Research, where director Scott Burris is leading three AI-powered initiatives: to develop an AI assistant that will help track existing laws across jurisdictions, making such research less burdensome and more accessible; use AI to create a policy dashboard that can help predict the potential effect of a legal intervention; and use machine-learning techniques to identify and enact laws addressing health and health equity related to HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis (p.11). Temple Law School has a long history of leading through change and preparing our students to do so as well. I had the wonderful opportunity to speak with our former dean, Temple’s Acting President JoAnne Epps, about student success, leadership and Temple’s transformative potential (p.14). We will soon welcome five new faculty members, each of whom will shape the future of Temple Law through their transformative teaching and scholarship (p.23). And earlier this summer, 20 of our Law & Public Policy Scholars brought their visions for change to the annual meeting of the Law & Society Association, representing not just Temple but the future of our profession. They made us extremely proud (p.17). Wherever AI takes us, Temple Law School will continue to train students for success in shaping the world around them through service, leadership and commitment. We are able to do so because each of you has shared those things so generously with us. Thank you, as always, for your partnership in advancing the mission of Temple Law, through any and every change. With gratitude, Rachel Rebouché Dean and James E. Beasley Professor of Law from THE DEANTHE ARRIVAL OF WHAT LAW PRACTICES MUST KNOW by Lori Woehrle5 ESQ. FALL 2023 he ephemeral promise of artificial intelligence to disrupt the practice of law has been floated about for years. Still, the release of ChatGPT in November 2021 by the company OpenAI suddenly brought the potential into sharp focus. That is when the technology evolved to recognize and analyze words, plus generate realistic human text, in an instant. It uses both natural language generation and natural language processing to understand and create content. Attorneys cannot afford to ignore this development. While the technology and its uses still generate more questions than answers, the sooner you learn about what is coming your way, the better. “The legal profession is on the cusp of a revolutionary way that law will be practiced,” according to award-winning author Samuel D. Hodge Jr. ’74, a Temple Law adjunct professor for over 30 years who has written extensively about artificial intelligence. “This is not an exaggeration but a statement reflecting how artificial intelligence will alter how lawyers do business. Many attorneys already use some form of AI without knowing it, such as conducting a Google search on an expert or using Westlaw to retrieve a case. Now, attorneys can use the technology to draft a contract, predict how a court will rule on a case, or the success rate of opposing counsel in similar litigation,” Hodge says in “Revolutionizing Justice: Unleashing the Power of Artificial Intelligence,” a law review article scheduled for November publication by the Southern Methodist University Law School. “…(T)he use of AI in the legal area will forever change the practice of law,” Hodge writes. “This transformation is coming, and lawyers must be ready to embrace it or be left at a competitive disadvantage.” While only 10% of law firms are currently using generative AI technology, that group is multiplying quickly, according to the National Law Review. “AI is a useful tool to complete repetitive tasks, including document review, legal document drafting, and legal research,” NLR said in an April 17, 2023, article “Legal Technology Trends: Ones to Watch.” Next >