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- Charges against Judge Jasmin. Lilly-Spells to be dropped if she completes community service, counseling. [8NewsNow; RJ]
- Ruling on fate of Thacker Pass expected in “next couple of months.” [Nevada Current]
- U.S. Supreme Court will consider “huge” attorney-client privilege case. [ABA Journal]
- In a world first, AI lawyer will defend real case next month. [Interested Engineering]
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As someone who litigates primarily in consumer law, I think the advance of AI could do a tremendous service in vindicating individual consumer rights (assuming the obvious ethical issues can be overcome). I often turn away clients with valid claims simply because, after talking over their issues with them, it isn't logistically possible for the juice to be worth the squeeze for them even assuming the best possible litigation outcome. The consequence is that companies never receive the requisite economic pressure to change noncompliant business practices.
Unfortunately, it's also likely that the more AI levels the playing field between plaintiffs and defendants in the civil arena – particularly for corporate defendants for whom the occasional lawsuit represents the cost of doing business – the more likely it becomes that those defendants and their affiliated trade organizations will aggressively lobby legislatures to strip away private rights of action from consumer statutes altogether.
A.I. is about to completely disrupt our industry in a way that almost none of us comprehend. When I speak to lawyers about A.I. it is astonishing how little they understand. I am surprised it hasn't happened sooner, but it appears we are now on the precipice. I can see this going a number of ways. Perhaps 90% of us are put out of business. Perhaps it simply increases efficiency to the benefit of both lawyer and client. Perhaps both possibilities will occur, only 10% of of us survive, but those that do make even more money.
I've been messing with chat gpt ai lately. It is simply astonishing how well it can do legal stuff. Summarize complicated legal standards; find accurate case citations, and other stuff.
12:27 here.
12:36, I have done that as well. Unfortunately, it still makes quite a few mistakes. I expect this will be inevitably cured, however. I also don't particularly care for the "voice" of Chat GPT's writing, but it is clean and grammatically correct.
Time to retire.
Instead of practicing law for the past 24 years, maybe I will go into a legitimate profession like twirling a sandwich board on the corner.
Sorry, 2:56 PM. A.I. outperforms humans at flipping sandwich boards.
I, for one, welcome our new A.I. overlords.
Haven't people been saying the same thing about fast food workers for years? Still a lot of fast food workers making my food. Sure, some places now have tablet/screen ordering, but it has not displaced very many workers. Calm down and stop being so dramatic. The bigger concern to the practice of law, imo, is law schools dropping their admissions standards and bar exams.
Maybe A.I. could help The Honorable Justice of the Peace Michelle Fiore.
I'm the big penis poster from a couple days ago and AI will never put me out of business with the girlfriend as she says she loves me for my personality which AI can never match.
Shelley Berkley announced that she is running for Mayor of Las Vegas. Does this not merit any discussion?
Found the top Monday topic!
Shelley Berkley needs to go away as in retire out of mind out of sight. Her son is a nice guy and lost the JP race to a relative unknown female. I think the Berkley name did more harm than good.
Yes, please, let's discuss the mayor candidates more on Monday.
Shelley Berkley has decided the public needs more of, has not had enough of, and cannot be satisfied of its apparent unending need for, Shelley Berkley. The only people other than herself she should be concerned about are her children and grandchildren.
Go away already. The only upside of her running is that maybe she'll finally realize she wore out her welcome a very long time ago. Hopefully she'll stop trying to insinuate herself into public life.
I'll set aside that I have never found her very effective and think she's beyond off-putting: let someone else have a turn. There is going to be a serious leadership and experience vacuum in 5-20 years with all of these people clinging onto power (such as it is) into their 70s and beyond. I'm sure many readers of the blog under 50 see it every day, and the self-aware ones are more than a bit concerned about its long term consequences.
I am a Republican so not politically aligned with Shelley and would not vote for her. With that said, she is a serious person. We have trundled through a decade of a mayor who is nothing more than a ceremonial figurehead for the city but provides no real leadership.
I think the Goodmans have done great as mayors. Keeping Las Vegas under the political radar is not a bad think. After Carolyn's reign is over, Las Vegas will turn into a political shit show like so most other cities. Winning elections by double digits year after year is pretty incredible, in and of itself.
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"With that said, [Shelley Berkeley] is a serious person." I'm not a republican and I've never found this to be true. She likely thinks she is. I've never heard her talk about anything she touts her involvement with, such as the legislation she passed in congress – even after asking her about the topics in person on several occasions over the years – and left with the impression that she had anything more than a surface-level understanding that went beyond lowest-common-denominator talking points.
I'm just an anonymous internet commenter, so take it for what it's worth. I've tried and tried over several years and many attempts to like Shelley Berkeley and see what other people have told me is there regarding her policy chops and acumen. I've never seen it.
Didn't she questionably introduce legislation and fail to disclose a conflict of interest?
Mayor Michele Fiore?
7:14 p.m. – here's the link; the issues are a bit convoluted but ultimately she was found to have violated house ethics rules by acting for the benefit of her husband's medical practice: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRPT-112hrpt716/html/CRPT-112hrpt716.htm
I nominate Ross Goodman for Mayor.
There! The Berkeley problem is solved.
@7:23 you can’t do that unless Ross “happens” to walk by your courtroom and you pull him in to be the CEO of a publicly traded company. You know, because that’s how we find someone to run companies. Judges just leave the bench and poke their heads into the hallway to see who happens to wander by in a barely post-Covid shutdown. So you cannot possibly nominate him unless he happened to wander past your door.
*Ross walks in*
"How can I help?"