The only thing worse than lawyers are AI lawyers.

I've had clients give me their AI slop and telling me how to practice law. Yay!

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How much do you charge for the work AI is doing and how? Time spent in ten minute intervals like you would a human clerk or paralegal?

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I don't charge for time the AI spends creating it, nor should anyone.

I'll give you a recent example.

had a new case come in where a patient gave notice to sue a nursing home client and requested records. no details on the claim. it is 15,000 pages of records.

in the olden days (six months ago), you'd have a legal nurse consultant review those records, create a timeline, find all the potential liability points, and then let your client know in 6-8 weeks what the case may or may not be about.

I plugged those records into Claude, and got back a 16 page summary of everything I could possibly need to know. Reading that and making my own notes took about a hour which was billed to the client noting that it was AI analysis. then I drafted a letter telling client key liability issues, my own thoughts, and provided those pages of the record, which took about two hours.

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It is amazing. I have no idea what the field of law will be like in two years, or even six months from now.

The problem with Claude is that you have to get Teams so it won't train on your data and theoretically violate attorney client privilege. For HIPAA compliance, you have to get their Enterprise version. Teams has a minimum of 5 members and Enterprise has a minimum of 20 when I last checked.

That's one reason I'm looking to Filevine. They have all the data protection.

I haven't done this demo yet, but they have a real-time AI assistant add on that will analyze the deposition testimony for your real time at the deposition and suggest further cross examination questions. That's insane.

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We have to use the enterprise version of CoPilot for this very reason. In my appraisal practice, we get tons of confidential information, and we're strictly forbidden from using anything but the enterprise version of CoPilot to analyze it. If I loaded that data into ChatGPT, it's an immediate ethics violation and would put my license at risk.
I was reviewing a report template last year for some federal land acquisitions we were doing. There was a citation to Yellow Book in it that looked like CoPilot wrote it. I check the cite, and sure enough, that rule didn't exist. I ripped him a new one, and made sure his boss knew about it too.
AI can do some things that make my work a lot easier and cleaner. It can also **** your world.

The assistant district attorney who filed completely fabricated AI material in a murder case and then lied about it has been suspended by the Georgia Supreme Court for six months. That seems lenient given the dishonesty involved, and the fact that it went undetected for so long. pic.twitter.com/By2zJQ4F5d

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) May 5, 2026

While lenient in what is deserved, this is harsh compared to how other courts have seemingly been letting this slide.


State supreme courts really need to issuance guidance on how lower courts need to rein this in sooner rather than later.

If she is suspended she is of no use to the DA's office and should be fired.

And I should have gotten a pony for Christmas!


Hell, they probably promote her! LOL They have no shame.