I have Lexis and they have an AI product that you can ask questions for legal research. I have tried it a bunch of times. It will give you wrong answers whenever the question requires an answer that necessitates any sort of synthesis of what the case law says. And when it gives you a correct answer, the cases it cites are wrong. We have also caught it giving out citations that were hallucinations (citations did not match the case names and were about something completely different than the cite was about). And we have had this AI product for over a year and have seen no improvement.
I have also tried the AI product for transactional documents. It is slightly helpful in that it will suggest provisions that you might not have thought of and did not have in any examples/forms that you usually use. But that is just a slight step up from the Practical Law product they have which is just a bunch of different forms you can use. Instead of having to go through an index to find your form, you can use a prompt to pull it up. The big problem with the transactional product is that it will through in provisions into forms that are completely out of place. I had to review a contract from a fin tech company. It had an all asset security interest provision that would have violated my client's inventory financing agreements which forbid pledging/encumbering the inventory that they financing on a LOC. There was no reason to have an all asset security agreement in this contract. I crossed it out and sent to back to the other side. They admitted that they used AI and did not even realize that it was in there.
AI is helpful in processing data. I have used AI to manage and index large document production and produce timelines. That is a big time saver, but has to be double checked by a human as the AI will mess up every now and then. But for core legal work, AI is not ready for prime time.
AI is also a big problem in the legal world in that pro se litigants get ahold of it and use it to spam the other side. I have a case with a pro se litigant who is resisting debt collection. He has filed over thirty different pleadings in a period of about four to five months. All of those were clearly drafted using AI. We called him out for using AI to the judge. He tried to deny it but got busted when we showed the judge that he filed a 15 page response about 30 minutes after one of the parties filed a motion against him. The response was full of AI slop.
Lawyers are generally considered to be the scummiest people in our society according to surveys, usually ranking slightly below used car salesmen. They regard morality, right and wrong, as an intellectual exercise and the law is simply a game to played. I've been close friends with several and as a group they rank near the bottom when it comes to ethics, morality...
Without a doubt lawyers are the lowest form of scum that walk the American streets. Even drug dealers and prostitutes have more ethics and values than these leeches. I've had to use lawyers in my business a number of times. Even though I got favorable outcomes in court, I still don't like the scumbag that represented my business. It's just the way these people are wired. They have no morals or ethics which I guess helps them to do their job.
I’m a lawyer and can already see the writing on the wall.
I asked GPT to write an amicus brief for a case Im currently following. It did. And it cited specific (and relevant) case law and basically wrote it the entire thing without any incoherence or logical errors.
If you’re not a lawyer, let me put that into context. A decent amicus brief can take days to research and write. It’s substantive legal work.
The GPT brief wasn’t perfect and required some editing but the fact that it wrote 90% of it is absolutely mind blowing.
Not sure what to make of all this. I’m confused and a bit scared. I can’t see a scenario where many professionals (including lawyers) are made obsolete in the coming years.
Here we are 2.5 years later and I don't think any lawyers have been replaced by AI. The ones I know are incredibly busy.
Lawyers are generally considered to be the scummiest people in our society according to surveys, usually ranking slightly below used car salesmen. They regard morality, right and wrong, as an intellectual exercise and the law is simply a game to played. I've been close friends with several and as a group they rank near the bottom when it comes to ethics, morality...
Without a doubt lawyers are the lowest form of scum that walk the American streets. Even drug dealers and prostitutes have more ethics and values than these leeches. I've had to use lawyers in my business a number of times. Even though I got favorable outcomes in court, I still don't like the scumbag that represented my business. It's just the way these people are wired. They have no morals or ethics which I guess helps them to do their job.
I heard about a lawyer who fell off a boat and the sharks wouldn't even bite him out of professional courtesy.
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