Never Hire a Robot Lawyer

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To paraphrase a friend of mine: "I'm excited to live in a world with robot lawyers because I love easy wins on procedural grounds."

"All lawyers are soulless demons..." "We should replace them all with soulless robots!"

I like how he immediately wants to jump to the Supreme Court, instead of starting out with some testing in a mock court and slowly moving up as the technology develops.

This is so much sillier than I could've imagined. There's even an "I was poor once" kid with a wealthy dad! Classic!

A legitimate version would partner with a University of Law to hold some mock trials with aspiring lawyers in front of legal professors. Once you've demonstrated competence there, you could imagine a bar and Judge being willing to tolerate its entrance into an actual court room in a very limited and protected scenario and slowly expand from there. But yeah, I totally think a guy is going to succeed when he jumps straight to the final boss.

I would like to give you props for faithfully recreating the entire "I for one welcome our new overlords" speech instead of just the one line.

"The bailiff WILL tackle you" card is my favorite guest star in LegalEagle vids.

Devin's editor woke up this morning and chose violence. And I am here for it.

I'm imagining an AI lawyer arguing the chewbacca defense at the supreme court.

When you mentioned Browder’s dad, you forgot to mention that his great-grandfather was Earl Browder, the leader of the US Communist Party. I’m sure he’d be thrilled to see his descendant become a tech startup bro 😂

Okay but you can’t lie. It’d be pretty damn funny to listen to an 800 year old judge talking to a machine lawyer that is basically just one of those answering machines that always asks you to repeat your question or answer.

This AI lawyer scheme sounds exactly like the kind of thing a person too stupid to park a car would come up with.

As someone who believes in the potential of AI, I'm baffled that this Tech Bro didn't simply set up a series of moot courts where his company could test his program, identify areas of improvement, and refine it until he has a solid product

"Practicing law is more than just arranging magic words in the right order while trying to sound human" says the youtube lawyer, charismatically arranging his words in the right order to make a convincing point.

Ahhgh! My company installed a program to automatically edit and redact complaints that I was editing. This was supposed to help free up my time for other projects. Instead, it now takes me longer to edit the complaints because the computer program can't grasp the distinctions between the complainant and the company that the complaint is about. It also takes out apostrophes, spacing between words, the words bill, may, earnest and grant. Drives me crazy. I wish that they would drop the whole thing and just let me get on with what I was doing before.

After all of the craziness of the last few years it turns out I’ve ended up rooting for lawyers.

There's also a somewhat easy thing for them to offer to consumers, which is potentially combing through all of the cases argued by all of the lawyers licensed in a particular jurisdiction (including cases argued in other jurisdictions that they have practiced in) and finding lawyers with relevant experience to an individual's case. Even narrowing it down from say 200 divorce lawyers listed on a state bar's website in your area to 10 or 20 that have represented clients in somewhat similar situations to you would be enormously helpful.

To be honest I know a few Federal COA Judges who would probably be willing to do an En Banc panel exercise just to see the concept. e.g. They pick a historic case to re-visit, limit the case to the filings in the lower court and with the assurance that the bot could not be trained on the previous appellate opinions or records, and see how this would play out. At least when I was in the First Circuit many of the judges had a good curiosity around technology and had tried previous matters like the Microsoft Anti-Trust Case, the Sun Microsystems Java/Google Case, etc.

He could easily recruit volunteer judges and attorneys to carry out a mock trial where one side is being argued by an AI, and only the audience is aware of which side it is. The fact that he's instead relying on sneaking the technology into a real courtroom is alarming.