Hacker News with Generative AI: Legal Technology

Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing (arstechnica.com)
A plaintiff's law firms were sanctioned and ordered to pay $31,100 after submitting fake AI citations that nearly ended up in a court ruling.
Legal Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Law, Court Cases, Sanctions
6 points by voxadam 8 days ago | 2 comments
Mike Lindell's lawyers used AI to write brief–judge finds nearly 30 mistakes (arstechnica.com)
A lawyer representing MyPillow and its CEO Mike Lindell in a defamation case admitted using artificial intelligence in a brief that has nearly 30 defective citations, including misquotes and citations to fictional cases, a federal judge said.
Law, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Technology, Misinformation
18 points by cratermoon 28 days ago | 7 comments
Why Lawyers Will Never Use Google Docs (versionstory.substack.com)
Last November, I published "On Building Git for Lawyers" about building Version Story, the first concurrent version control system for lawyers.
Lawyers, Version Control, Legal Technology, Software
18 points by jpbryan 38 days ago | 4 comments
An AI avatar tried to argue a case before a New York court (apnews.com)
It took only seconds for the judges on a New York appeals court to realize that the man addressing them from a video screen — a person about to present an argument in a lawsuit — not only had no law degree, but didn’t exist at all.
Artificial Intelligence, Law, Legal Technology, New York
9 points by petethomas 49 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Outlit – AI Agents to Empower Non-Legal (outlit.ai)
Artificial Intelligence, Legal Technology, Software, AI Agents
14 points by leopaz 297 days ago | 5 comments