Generative AI for Dummies is not really for dummies.
Artificial Intelligence
How Will AI Change the Legal Profession?
Carolyn Elefant is tired of talking about whether AI will change the legal profession’s practice of time-based billing. She has a better list of questions. My answers, FWIW:
See Yourself As Others See You
Oh, would some Power the gift give us
Robert Burns, “To A Louse” (1786)
To see ourselves as others see us!
It would from many a blunder free us,
And foolish notion:
What airs in dress and gait would leave us,
And even devotion!
Robert Burns understood the value of seeing yourself as…
State Bar Approaches to Regulating AI
State bars drafting new ethics rules to regulate AI? A fool’s errand.
State bars issuing guidance on how AI use fits into the existing regulatory framework? Sublime wisdom.
The Virginia State Bar leads the way:
Guidance on Generative Artificial Intelligence
…By now it’s well known that lawyers must pay attention to “the benefits and
AI Hallucinations: Westlaw vs. LexisNexis
Is it really surprising that legal research companies are exaggerating the quality of their Artificial Intelligence apps?
The more significant finding a the new Stanford University study is that both “Westlaw and Lexis offer high quality responses.” As you might expect, the estimable Bob Ambrogi is all over this (here and here).
The…
An AI-Assisted Book Review: Law Democratized
Very pleased to see The Impact Lawyers reprint my review of Renee Knake Jefferson‘s excellent new book Law Democratized: A Blueprint for Solving the Justice Crisis.
Ms. Jefferson believes that artificial intelligence “has the potential to become the single most important tool in solving the legal justice crisis,” so on completing this review…
AI Tackles Writing Law Review Articles
I think the AI Law Librarians blog might grow on me. My favorite current post? Sarah Gotschall‘s article Move Over Law Professors? AI Likes to Write Law Review Articles Too! She gives an AI-generated law review article a passing grade.
Gotschall walks readers through the process of guiding an AI chatbot (“Claude“)…
Richard Granat, Legal Rebel
I’m pleased to be working on an interview with Richard Granat, a seminal figure in the drive to improve access to justice in the U.S. Here’s what ChatGPT has to say about Richard:
Me: Tell me about Richard Granat, legal rebel
ChatGPT 4.0: Richard Granat has been a pioneering figure in the legal technology field…
Law Firms Banning the Use of AI?
“Our law firm has a policy forbidding our lawyers to use generative artificial intelligence to produce legal products such as briefs, motion arguments, and researched opinions.”
— From a partner at Carlton Fields.
Rather than requiring carpenters to use only manual saws, wouldn’t it make more sense to teach them to use power tools…
Smaller Firms Will Lead the Way on AI (Just Like Did With the Internet)
Vanderbilt Law School Professor Cat Moon sees it quite clearly: [T]he very [law] firm structure repels innovation (and modernization).”
Yep. Some people are innovating. Just don’t expect to see much out of large law firms. What does happen won’t happen fast.
The curve will be pretty much what we saw decades ago with the…