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AI can be a great tool in the legal field, for lawyers and clients alike. But you need to be aware of its limitations and potential pitfalls.
Clients: AI CANNOT replace your lawyer.
Lawyers: AI CANNOT replace your brain.
Use it right.
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Legora raised $550 million at an $8.8 billion valuation on October 21, up from $5.6 billion at its last round. Per the release, in-house teams made up more than 40% of the customers it added last quarter, and more than half the AmLaw 50 are customers. The next day Jones Day said it's rolling Legora out to more than 2,500 lawyers in 40 offices.
Solo and small firms don't come up anywhere in the release. Just saying.
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Two billing reports came out in October and they don't line up. In Everlaw's survey of 300 in-house legal professionals, 81% expect "outcome-based pricing to eclipse the billable hour within five years." 8am's data from more than 60,000 small and midsize firms has the hour gaining ground. 🧵
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The Florida Supreme Court suspended Broward County judge Lauren Nichole Peffer for 30 days and fined her $10,000 on October 9. During her 2024 campaign she told the Sun Sentinel about an "image crisis" tied to another circuit, leaned on a book she later admitted she'd never read, and when asked for evidence, sent a recording of a supposed call between Florida Supreme Court justices and that circuit's chief judge. The call was fake. Bloomberg Law reports it was AI-generated.
The court's problem was that she "failed to verify the accuracy of the book or recording on which she relied." Turns out "verify before you file" covers campaign interviews too.
Federal Judge Rita F. Lin in San Francisco dismissed, with leave to amend, the remaining claims that Google's contact-center AI eavesdropped on Home Depot customer service calls. Two plaintiffs had accepted Home Depot's privacy statement, which let it share call recordings with "service providers." The third never agreed to anything, but nobody alleged facts showing Google meant to listen without consent.
Most people calling a law firm's intake line haven't signed anything yet either. If an AI tool is listening to those calls, what did they agree to?
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When a lawyer files fake AI citations, the lawyer pays. When a judge signs an order with them, the parties pay, and in Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch it took the State 15 months and a trip to the Fifth Circuit. Read the full breakdown below👇🏻:
Counterpoint, and I love BLB. No. You can also become a great lawyer because you are the type of person who excels at the work. You don’t need 200-hour months, and I have billed many. Also, those months made you really fucking knowledgeable, not smart. If you’re smart, you’re that before you even bill one hour. Dumb lawyers get good by grinding. Smart lawyers already had the chops going in and just get better by grinding. But the grinding isn’t what made them good. There is a place in the space for both. I think @SteelToeScribe knows what I’m talking about.
the bad news is that the only way to become a great lawyer is to bill lots of 200-hour months. the good news is that the byproduct of that is that you become really fucking smart
and when you talk to people with trust funds or regular jobs, as soon as they open their low-wattage, unpenetrative mouths, you know you’re better than them
and you earned that, through hundreds of difficult and boring weekends
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If you're up at 4 a.m. finishing a brief, skip the last round of polish and spend that hour pulling cites. Nobody ever got sanctioned for a clunky transition.
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When a ruling goes against you, check the order's citations the same way you'd check the other side's brief. Paste it into Claude, have it list every case, pincite, and quote, and then pull each one yourself.
In Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch, the State flagged fake parties and declarations in a TRO two days after it issued. A nonexistent Fourth Circuit case in the "corrected" version didn't come out until oral argument at the Fifth Circuit. Find it before the panel does.
Two billing reports came out in October and they don't line up. In Everlaw's survey of 300 in-house legal professionals, 81% expect "outcome-based pricing to eclipse the billable hour within five years." 8am's data from more than 60,000 small and midsize firms has the hour gaining ground. 🧵
2/3 8am: 47.7% of firms billed hourly and nothing else from January through June, up from 46.6% a year earlier. Flat fees slipped to 15% of all invoices from 16%. In civil litigation they're 6.7%.
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A Florida appeals court referred Jaclyn R. Soroka to the Florida Bar on October 21 in Lisandrillo v. Palozzi. The court had ordered her to show cause why she shouldn't be sanctioned, and said her 82-page response "misses the point."
In it, she admitted a motion she filed in the trial court had a lengthy false quotation attributed to one of the appeals court's own cases, and called it "human error" under "time pressure." The court's reply: "Until AI, and until this case, we never encountered lawyers 'hallucinating' non-existent quotations." To add insult to injury, the court also said that “[n]o competent attorney, much less one who holds herself out as board certified, should file a similar petition in an appellate court.” So apparently, she’s board certified, too. Yikes.
The Florida Supreme Court suspended Broward County judge Lauren Nichole Peffer for 30 days and fined her $10,000 on October 9. During her 2024 campaign she told the Sun Sentinel about an "image crisis" tied to another circuit, leaned on a book she later admitted she'd never read, and when asked for evidence, sent a recording of a supposed call between Florida Supreme Court justices and that circuit's chief judge. The call was fake. Bloomberg Law reports it was AI-generated.
The court's problem was that she "failed to verify the accuracy of the book or recording on which she relied." Turns out "verify before you file" covers campaign interviews too.
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A federal magistrate judge in Miami ruled on October 21 that a defendant's chats with AI platforms can be subpoenaed straight from the AI companies, at least on topics tied to the damages issues. Here's what I'd change in my own files. 🧵
If you're up at 4 a.m. finishing a brief, skip the last round of polish and spend that hour pulling cites. Nobody ever got sanctioned for a clunky transition.
When a ruling goes against you, check the order's citations the same way you'd check the other side's brief. Paste it into Claude, have it list every case, pincite, and quote, and then pull each one yourself.
In Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch, the State flagged fake parties and declarations in a TRO two days after it issued. A nonexistent Fourth Circuit case in the "corrected" version didn't come out until oral argument at the Fifth Circuit. Find it before the panel does.
If the order's going up on appeal, my Litigator's Prompt Pack: Pro Edition has a prompt for drafting issue statements matched to the standard of review: litigationai.gumroad.com/l/p…
