What does ChatGPT and Lawyers have to do with Horizon and The Post Office Scandal? This past week the country (UK) has been collectively transfixed, outraged and disillusioned by Mr Bates v The Post Office on ITV. A drama about the real life events known commonly as ‘The Post Office Scandal‘. One of the widest…
In September 2023, Denis Potemkin of Majoto organised and chaired ‘The Great AI [in Law] Debate’ between me and Nicola Shaver. I am now managing to get around to posting about that on here to add to my series on Legal Chatbots. The debate motion was: Generative AI already enhances the delivery of legal services,…
Last week I published a blog post about Inkster’s Law. This week I am following up on that post with what ChatGPT made of it over the past week and the hallucinations it had in the process. Inkster’s Law is the 2:1 ratio of time needed to check for accuracy of AI generated material. It…
Inkster’s Law is a term coined, this past week, on LinkedIn by Gav Ward. It all started with a LinkedIn post by Dan Hunter. Dan starts the post with: Ok, here is my first pass at full syllabus for a comprehensive Legal GenAI subject… (What have I missed? Will post explanations, teaching notes, and references…
The Journal of the Law Society of Scotland (JLSS), which is published monthly, always lists a Blog of the Month. I was leafing through the December edition of the JLSS yesterday morning after it arrived in the post. To my surprise and delight, The Time Blawg is their Blog of the Month. In particular for…
Peak AI hype was surely reached this past week at the UK AI Safety Summit, organised by the UK Government. The culmination of the summit was Prime Minister Rishi Sunak interviewing Elon Musk. This was when peak AI hype truly kicked in. Especially when Musk said: We will have for the first time something that…
What is the future of legal services? That is a question that Professor Richard Susskind attempted to answer at the University of Strathclyde on 19 October 2023. Although, Professor Susskind has, of course, spent the past 40 years trying to answer that very question. The Future of Legal Services: Drills and Holes? Before the talk…
Legal Geek 2023 was the one with Withnail and GenAI. Legal Geek 2023: Withnail No big surprise that GenAI was being overcooked at Legal Geek 2023, but what was Withnail doing there? Withnail’s alter ego, Richard E. Grant, was giving a keynote discussion on ‘grief and its impact’. Perhaps to prepare the GenAI evangelists for…
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…
