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…
Events this past week have raised the importance of law firms employing ChatGPT technology to also employ a Legal Hallucinatory Detectorist. Alternatively, perhaps, simply not to use ChatGPT at all. Legal Prompt Engineers The initial buzz around ChatGPT led to many saying you had to employ Legal Prompt Engineers. Without the correct prompts the technology…
On 10 May 2023 I attended the British Legal Technology Forum 2023. I hadn’t been at a NetLaw Media event for a good few years. The format was the one I recalled from the past: Various stages and lots of talks, large Expo hall with Legal Tech vendors and swag, a big name keynote and…
The LawtechUK Launch Event took place in Edinburgh yesterday. It was to launch the new chapter in the life of LawtechUK with CodeBase & Legal Geek being, since 1 April 2023, the implementing partners. LawtechUK, is a government-backed initiative within Tech Nation, established to support the transformation of the UK legal sector through technology, for…
Legal Tech Sandboxes appears to be the only real mention in relation to Legal Tech given by the Scottish Government in their response to the findings of the legal services regulation reform in Scotland consultation analysis report. This is the second blog post by me looking at aspects of that response. The first looked at the…
This post, on legal tech, is the third in a series of five blog posts, each one looking at different aspects of the Consultation Analysis on Legal Services Regulation Reform in Scotland. That consultation comes on the back of the ‘Roberton Review‘, which was an independent Review commissioned by the Scottish Government in 2017 and…
Since Clubhouse came on the scene audio only Apps have become the next big thing in Social Media. Lawyer Tik Tok videos are now very old hat. All the cool lawyers want to follow the tech bros into audio only rooms. Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn have all announced development of their own versions of Clubhouse…
I am not on Clubhouse. I can’t readily access it (see reason 1 below). However, even if I could, I don’t particularly want to be on it (see reasons 2 to 12 below). This blog post gives the reasons why I think Clubhouse is not for Lawyers or indeed not for anyone connected with the…
In the time of lockdown, Nicole Black has pondered at ‘Above the Law‘ that:- Surely there’s a way to hold a virtual conference that’s more interactive and allows attendees to be more engaged with both vendors and other attendees. Nicole thinks we need something more than Zoom. Her suggestion is that we should have avatars…
