I had an exchange about Large Language Models (LLMs) in law, on Twitter (otherwise now known as X), a couple of days ago with Zach Abramowitz: LLMs in Law – The Hype I do think GenAI, in its current form, is over hyped and especially so when it comes to using it for the provision…
The New Zealand Law Society, in its response to the Independent Review on Regulating Lawyers in Aotearoa New Zealand (the Paterson Review [PDF]), has accepted in principle the proposal to establish a new independent regulator. The Review said that the New Zealand Law Society’s current structure (operating as both a regulator and membership body) was…
Professor Stephen Mayson has published his response to the call for views on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill on both the UCL website and on his own website. You can download the full response as a PDF: Response by Professor Stephen Mayson on call for evidence on Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill….
The Law Society of Scotland made an announcement on 10 August that would suggest the ABS Nessie may be in sight at long last! Later this year (2023) no less. ABSs in Scotland – rarer than Nessie Seven years ago, in 2016, the Law Society Gazette (i.e. the Gazette of the Law Society of England…
Professor David Flint submitted, yesterday, his response to the call for evidence on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill. Professor Flint supports the principal recommendation of the Roberton Review that an independent regulator should be created to regulate legal professionals. In his response Professor Flint suggests that the present system, and what is proposed…
On 31 July, The Herald published a letter by Michael Sheridan, Solicitor, Glasgow claiming that Law Firms are “public assets” that should not be allowed to be sold to shareholder companies. Mr Sheridan was alerting the public to, in his view, the “proposed sale of public assets for private gain” that could happen if section…
I have submitted my response to the call for evidence on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill by the Equalities, Human Rights & Civil Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament. My response is a follows:- 1. What are your views on: a. the principal recommendation of the Roberton Review that an independent regulator should…
Views on the Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill must be with the Scottish Parliament by 9 August 2023. So, this is just a nudge, if you haven’t done so already, to submit your views by that date. It is most important that anyone with an interest in the future of regulation of legal services…
The Judge in the infamous ChatGPT lawyer case (Mata v Avianca) has now issued his judgement. He has sanctioned the ChatGPT lawyers. Judge P. Kevin Castel issued a 34 page Opinion [PDF]. It concludes that a penalty of $5,000 is jointly and severally imposed on the lawyers in question. In addition they must send a letter…
The Judge in the infamous ChatGPT lawyer case (Mata v Avianca) this week suggested what ChatGPT produced was “legal gibberish”. Possibly a better and more realistic term than legal hallucinations! Judge Castel had called a hearing for 8 June with a view to considering whether any sanctions were appropriate for the lawyers using ChatGPT to…
Judges have entered the ChatGPT fray and are giving their views on the use of Generative AI in Court. This is perhaps not surprising following recent incidents of lawyers and litigants in person producing fake case citations to courts. All generated by the master hallucinator that is Chat GPT. Judge says a Human Being must…
The Law Society Gazette reported, at the beginning of the week, that a Litigant in Person in the UK used ChatGPT to research the law resulting in false citations being put before the court. This comes hot on the heels of a lawyer in the USA doing exactly the same thing. I blogged about that…
