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Re: Claude for Legal

#131
I wonder why there isn't much for real estate in this package.

Are they perhaps working on a totally different real estate project. I am in that space and very nervous about it getting wiped out by anthropic or openAI.

To be honest, I am not sure why they still haven't make a big play for that industry.

Re: Claude for Legal

#132
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation for #1 - https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-he... > Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York — addressing “a question of first impression nationwide” — ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. Much more to it than this one-liner that I pulled out, bu…

> Much more to it than this one-liner that I pulled out, but safe to say, don't rely on or put your legal defense etc. (or elements of it) into AI unless you want it discovered. "You are an expert defense counsel with experience in Murder 1. Do not hallucinate. Let's say tomorrow my spouse is found strangled..."

It's the query to Gemini in Incognito asking if a 8'x12' rug is a good way to move a body that's going to really make things difficult.

Re: Claude for Legal

#133
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> As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, As in "I'm excited to win a lot of money dismantling hallucinated quotations and invalid assumptions"?

You can't criticize LLMs and Anthropic on a website where everybody and their grandma uses them for everything. New generation of brainlets that are gonna be clueless without constant Internet connection is brewing and it's gonna be hilarious.

-2 points at the time you wrote this comment :)

Re: Claude for Legal

#134

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In the US, are Google queries about the law considered attorney-client privilege? What about library records? Browser history? Google Maps / Uber / car travel history (when traveling to an attorney's office)? If somebody Googles "best attorney for murder NYC" a day after a murder is committed but before any case is filed against them (so they clearly had some reason to expect that case), could that be used as evidenc…

I'm not sure if you were actually asking the question but regardless the answer is that all of those absolutely can and are regularly used as evidence

Generally seeking counsel for a crime you may end up being accused of isn't going to be admissible as evidence. The "if he's so innocent, why did he hire an attorney" isn't something that judges tend to allow to play out in a courtroom.

Re: Claude for Legal

#135
post #7

As a lawyer, I'm excited about this, but there are two roadblocks that I'm not sure how Anthropic will navigate: (1) For non-lawyers who use these skills/connectors/whatchamacallits to try to get legal advice, their communications are not protected by attorney-client privilege. This will absolutely bite some people in the ass. (2) If a lawyer uses this with confidential client information (which, to the uninitiated,…

Seems like a good use case for a locally deployed LLM though that's annoying and expensive to maintain sophisticated one like deepseek.

Re: Claude for Legal

#136
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation for #1 - https://harvardlawreview.org/blog/2026/03/united-states-v-he... > Judge Rakoff of the Southern District of New York — addressing “a question of first impression nationwide” — ruled that written exchanges between a criminal defendant and generative AI platform Claude were not protected by attorney-client privilege or the work product doctrine. Much more to it than this one-liner that I pulled out, bu…

Good argument for using DeepSeek with an anonymous form of payment. Discovery in China will be a tad more difficult…

Just use https://tinfoil.sh

They solved all this stuff, I'm surprised more people aren't aware of it.

Re: Claude for Legal

#137

I wonder why there isn't much for real estate in this package. Are they perhaps working on a totally different real estate project. I am in that space and very nervous about it getting wiped out by anthropic or openAI. To be honest, I am not sure why they still haven't make a big play for that industry.

I’d guess they have some kind of analytics telling them what kind of questions are being asked.

It seems to me that heavily gate kept professions/knowledge will go first. As those tend to be extensive opinions to get.

Re: Claude for Legal

#138

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So not familiar with the caselaw around work product, but if you use an API tool directly and not the different chat tools, the queries are not permanently cached for anyone to give up in the end. So basically if you use any of the CLI tools, there is nothing for OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. to give the courts. Online ChatGPT (especially the free version), are apparently cached by OpenAI on their servers. (I am not sure i…

Indeed, there is no way my terabytes per day of API calls is getting permanently stored anywhere. Perhaps an AI generated summary of it is.

interesting angle - how are/would compressed context (i.e. the parts of the user-LLM transcription likely to be saved) be treated by the courts? Would this be considered hearsay?

Re: Claude for Legal

#139
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The government is just people. Even before the current fiasco, the government had varying degrees of incompetence and malice, and if you're poor you can't do anything about it since the government is presumed to have been operating in good faith and you can't afford a lawyer or the time off work to try to fix it pro se.

There is no such presumption in court. If you've been wronged you can get recompense regardless of their intent.

I'd invite you to ask a few poor people what happened the last time the government "definitely sent" some important document or another in the mail.

If a governmental employee gets the address wrong, gets the name wrong, accidentally knocks the mail in the trash, lazily marks the job as complete without sending anything, etc, the burden shifts to the poor person to prove not just that they didn't receive the mail but that the sending office didn't behave correctly.

Other cases behave similarly. In a he-said/she-said, the government wins.

Re: Claude for Legal

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I'm not sure if you were actually asking the question but regardless the answer is that all of those absolutely can and are regularly used as evidence

Parent comment was asking about attorney-client privilege which means there's an attorney in the communication loop. If the person using a tool is an attorney, then that communication should be protected whether it's by pen or keyboard. But this is an active area of legislation and jurisprudence in relation to AI. I expect some important cases will happen

> If the person using a tool is an attorney, then that communication should be protected whether it's by pen or keyboard.

But the tool is not your attorney, so it can't be the originator of attorney-client privilege. The situation is no different than if you get informal legal advice from a friend: even if that friend is an attorney, the communication is unprivileged unless it's part of a formal representation.

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