Never, ever use AI for legal review for a client.

Inviting an AI into the threads removes privilege.

I litteraly just went through this shit about 3hrs ago. I needed to install a flange gasket for a 2.5" pipe flange hydraulic return. A.I tells me I can't use this particular multi layer gasket type I have because I have a flat flange.

Lo and behold I find the the manufacturer data sheet. Perfectly suitable for my application.

Like it's one thing for a.i to fail at making shit up. But it's a hole other fuck up when it can't even regurgitate information correctly.

Between 1100 and 3500. It's in the artiblcle before the paywall kicks in.

A judge can't revoke a law license. But they can issue a fine and bar them from their courtroom.

The judge's action in this case was brutal. It's the legal equivalent of a public caning.

I miss integrity.

I know how this is going to sound but during college I thought I was going to go to law school and I had a cute little part-time job with the smallest local law firm. It was just the lawyer who had been doing it for ages and another part-time lawyer, so pretty much a one-man firm, and I would draft briefs for him that were absolutely ridiculous in their acerbity. He would then edit them and call me into his office and show me his edits and tell me I needed to tone it down. It was social security disability law, so there were a lot of people with debilitating diseases, some of whom didn't receive benefits for YEARS until after their deaths (benefits went to widow/ers). It shook me and the scales fell from my eyes, but we actually worked on these things. He was a smart guy and could have done a different field of law but he genuinely wanted to do this, and the college students he employed cared too, and we crafted our own words.

I really miss that man.

Anyway, all of that to say even if paralegals were drafting the lawyers' statements, there is no reason for them to not look over them and properly edit before they submit. Because some of my first drafts were wildddd lol

I don't know, it seems we've nearly perfected a failing upward system. Much better than all those old fashioned professional oaths we used to take serious. /s