Carolyn Elefant has the receipts:
“It does not bode well for #legaltech that my $20/month ChatGPT subscription can give me a correct Bluebook citation for a public utilities commission order when my $270/month LexisNexis subscription cannot.”
As someone once said, “The times, they are a-changing.”
Are Jessica Aries‘ prompts the best of all possible prompts to promote law firms to possible clients in AI output? Probably not, but they are the best I have seen. She describes them as:
Two plain-language ChatGPT prompts designed specifically for lawyers. They uncover gaps, sharpen your visibility, and provide clear next steps
With the help of Sabrina Pacifici, my article AI In High-Stakes Litigation: The Critical Role of Experienced Attorneys will be published this month at LLRX.com. Here is an excerpt:
The “Centaur” Approach Is the Optimal Model (For Now)
Today’s chess-playing computers can crush the best human players without breaking a sweat. This wasn’t always true.
The best way to learn to use AI effectively is to let AI help you.
Cat Moon 😺 likes to say she “lives in the I live in the open mindedness of not knowing enough about anything.”
I dunno. She knows just about everything we need to know about one topic:
“Every single instance of an attorney filing something in court that cites a fake case generated by AI is
Nicole Black’s Sui Generis blog is one of my favorites, a good guide to what’s hot and what’s not, what deserves our attention and what doesn’t. Her recent post The Year Ahead in Legal Tech: AI, Innovation, and Opportunity Tech Trends to Expect in 2025 is overwhelmingly about AI. That should tell you something if
Detecting scams used to be relatively easy. Social engineers nearly always left clues that made spotting and avoiding them easy.
Things have changed. Scammers are enormously more sophisticated. The Washington Post’s personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary‘s top three rules will go a long way toward keeping you safer:
As an Apple Watch fanboy, I often tell my skeptical friends, “Get one. It will improve your quality of life.” Apple Watches have their benefits but are trivial compared to the benefits I’ve gotten using AI for my home and personal needs. AI can help you with everything from finding a recipe for that weird
Hordes of social media posts—and even some media outlets like Newsweek—are reporting that the Grok AI app (described by Elon Musk as the “smartest AI on Earth”) concluded that there is a 75% chance that Donald Trump is a Russian asset.I’m no fan of Trump, but I have to point out that Grok’s analysis
Clients shouldn’t need a Latin dictionary and a team of cryptographers to understand what they’re paying for. More than a few professionals who are capable of writing clearly fail to do so because they fear that clients would be less willing to pay hefty fees for work product not wrapped in ponderous and incomprehensible jargon.