Hacker News with Generative AI: Legal Technology

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.
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.
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.
Show HN: Outlit – AI Agents to Empower Non-Legal (outlit.ai)