The salaries range from $190,000 to $235,000 per year, excluding bonuses, numbers that bring tears to the eyes of many hard-working, experienced and highly-skilled trial lawyers, the babies of Biglaw earn incomes that bear no relation to the value they bring to the table. The only drawback is that their work went from engagement in
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Using AI, Judge Considers Dead Victim Impact (Update)
Step aside Max Headroom, Chris Pelkey is in the courtroom. Well, not really, but close enough for Judge Todd Lang in Arizona.
Chris Pelkey was killed in a road rage shooting in Chandler, Arizona, in 2021.
Three and a half years later, Pelkey appeared in an Arizona court to address his killer. Sort of.
Pelkey,…
Free Mahmoud Khalil
One of the least pleasant aspects of being principled is that you have to defend people whose ideology you find repugnant or idiotic. But that’s the test of principle, whether you’re prepared to fight for the rights you demand for the favored for those you despise. I despise Khalil. Free him.
Mahmoud Khalil was a…
Seaton Writes A Pilot 2: Just Add Zombies
Prefatory Note: a prominent podcaster recently opined in the future our Netflix queues will consist of AI generated stories customized for our desires of the moment.
In an attempt to test this theory, I fed my script for “Glen the Grocery Store Greeter” to Grok and said “Add zombies.”
The following is the result.
COLD…
Seaton: SJ Year In Review
Welcome to 2025! Weren’t we supposed to have teleporters and flying cars by how? What a ripoff. Anyway we at Simple Justice wouldn’t dream of starting this New year without properly saying goodbye to 2024.
Time for The SJ Year In Review!
Your humble humorist decided to embrace the modern age and use AI to…
Tuesday Talk*: Is AI To Blame For Teen’s Suicide?
Ed. Note: The idea for today’s post came from biochemistry prof Chris Halkides, who raised questions about whether teens are “amusing” themselves to death, or whether the First Amendment protects the right to engage with AI, regardless of outcome.
Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer III, a ninth-grader from Orlando, Florida, took his own life. Regardless of anything…
Court Rejects Ineffective Assistance For Using AI In Closing
Malaysian businessman Low Taek Jho wanted to meet Barack Obama, but as a foreign national, could not buy his way to a meeting through campaign contributions. So he used Rapper Pras Michel of the Fugees as his conduit, feeding Michel money to contribute to Obama. Things did not turn out as well as hoped.
On…
All Rise For Judge AI
When I was asked to beta test its AI research bot, I informed a major legal research provider that it worse than sucked. It was dangerous. Not only did it hallucinate, which could be ascertained with minimal fact checking, but it conflated almost all the critical distinctions that make law work. It failed to distinguish…