AI in Legal Practice
The cluster focuses on the use of AI tools like LLMs by lawyers for legal research, drafting motions, and analysis, highlighting risks such as hallucinations creating fake case law and the need for human verification before court use.
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Especially once we have ai lawyers ;)
Do I understand correctly that this is an AI that will be used to sue or otherwise take law-related decisions? What can go wrong?
People are using LLM slop in legal filings. I'm sure someone somewhere is already using it in worse ways.
I dont understand how a lawyer can use AI like this and not just spend the little time required to check that the citations actually exist.
Related:Vigilante Lawyers Expose the Rising Tide of A.I. Slop in Court Filingshttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/business/lawyers-ai-vigil... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45866504)
This company is either run by someone who doesn't understand the tech or is willfully fraudulent. ChatGPT and company are far from good enough to be entrusted with law. Having interacted extensively with modern LLMs, I absolutely know something like this would happen:> Defendant (as dictated by AI): The Supreme Court ruled in Johnson v. Smith in 1978...> Judge: There was no case Johnson v. Smith in 1978.LLMs hallucinate, and there is absolutely no space for hallucinati
Asking the LLM for relevant case law and checking it up - productive use of LLM. Asking the LLM to write your argument for you and not checking it up - unproductive use of LLM. It's the same as with programming.
LegalDeep AI isn't build for replacing the Licensed Professionals, it's build for making there life easier and increasing there productivity. This tool might save there time and money.LegalDeep AI just gives you summaries and analysis not perfect data to share with clients without review by user himself. They can use this for help.
"Why it is the very plausibility of AI-generated case law that should put lawyers on their guard"
wonder no more [1]In a cringe-inducing court hearing, a lawyer who relied on A.I. to craft a motion full of made-up case law said he “did not comprehend” that the chat bot could lead him astray.[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/nyregion/lawyer-chatgpt-s...