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JUL
29
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All Right, Mr. AI, I’m Ready For My Close-Up: Becoming The Director Of Artificial Intelligence Through Prompt Engineering

July 2026 by J. Cliff McKinney II | Every director knows the performance depends on the direction. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no different. It is a remarkably capable…
APR
23
Publications

Prompt Engineering For Lawyers: Free Your Mind: Flipped Interactive Prompting And Perspective Switching

April 2026 by Cliff McKinney | I’m trying to free your mind, Neo. But I can only show you the door. You’re the one that has to walk…
APR
23
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Prompt Engineering For Lawyers: We Will Add Your Distinctiveness To Our Own: Iterative Refinement And Prompt Chaining

April 2026 by Cliff McKinney | We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile. -The…
APR
23
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Prompt Engineering For Lawyers: How Deep The Rabbit Hole Goes: The Chunking Technique And Few Shot Prompting

April 2026 by Cliff McKinney | This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill – the story ends, you…
APR
23
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Prompt Engineering For Lawyers: Blue Pill or Red Pill: Hallucinations Risks And An Introduction To Prompt Engineering

April 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In The Matrix, Neo’s choice between the blue pill and the red pill is essentially a choice between a comfortable illusion and…
APR
23
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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: Standalone Resource: Model Policy and Training Program For Responsible AI Use

March 2026 by Cliff McKinney | Every significant technological change in law, including computers, email, and online research, has required practical tools to implement ethically. Artificial intelligence is…
APR
23
Publications

Ethics Of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: Resistance Is Futile: Candor, Supervision, And Fees

March 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Borg deliver their iconic warning to every species they encounter: “Resistance is futile.” The line…
APR
23
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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: You Will Be Assimilated: Best Practices for Lawyers Using Artificial Intelligence

March 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Borg, a species augmented with artifical intelligence, give a chilling ultimatum to every civilization they…
APR
23
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Ethics of Artificial Intelligence For Lawyers: That Is The Sound of Inevitability: Legislatures And Regulators Step In

February 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In The Matrix, the evil artificial intelligence entity, Agent Smith, corners the human hero, Neo, on the subway tracks. Agent Smith say,…
MAR
16
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What A Difference A Decade Makes: Has The Rural Landscape In Arkansas Changed?

March 2026 by Cliff McKinney | In 2015, Lisa Pruitt, Bart Calhoun, and I published an article in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review titled…