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Re: Claude for Legal

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post #2

I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff ... at the point lawyers will become kinda "seo"/"copywriter" experts on how to better trick the others LLM.

> I guess at some point we will have lawyers, attorneys and judges using this stuff

We are already well beyond this point. Look already at the number of cases around the world where lawyers have provided documents to the court with hallucinated case citations.

Re: Claude for Legal

#152
post #133

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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 :)

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Re: Claude for Legal

#153

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Can anyone be your lawyer, or does a lawyer have to be certified somehow?

It is my understanding that they must be certified. You are allowed to represent yourself, but it is my understanding that a non-lawyer cannot represent you.

Gonna be hilarious when someone sends a Boston dynamics robot loaded with an llm to take the bar exam.

Re: Claude for Legal

#154
post #11

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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..."

Surely they can't hold a simple hypothetical against me. Just because it _happened_ to come true.

Re: Claude for Legal

#155
Who's accountable when it does something wrong? Surely Anthropic Inc won't take the fall for you. There's no errors or omissions insurance, no legal accountability, no attorney-client privilege, and no bar association to handle disciplinary action.

I think we should be realistic here, this is a more advanced version of those "will kits" that spit out a PDF. The legal system will not look fondly upon this stuff until something fundamentally changes.

And like, I would love if we didn't have to spend thousands of dollars to defend ourselves in a culture as litigious as ours. But I wouldn't put my life and well being on this thing.

Re: Claude for Legal

#157

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There's going to be a "Claude for wiping my ass" at this rate.

I’m working on ways to evaluate and give feedback on surgical techniques. But you just helped me find a new pivot. Thanks! And yes I’m on the toilet.

Wasn’t this the concept behind the toilet in the Your Friends and Neighbors series on Apple TV?

Re: Claude for Legal

#158

Who's accountable when it does something wrong? Surely Anthropic Inc won't take the fall for you. There's no errors or omissions insurance, no legal accountability, no attorney-client privilege, and no bar association to handle disciplinary action. I think we should be realistic here, this is a more advanced version of those "will kits" that spit out a PDF. The legal system will not look fondly upon this stuff until…

> The legal system will not look fondly upon this stuff

True, but the legal system didn't look fondly on outlawing jaywalking, until it did. Took it about 20 years in the US.

Re: Claude for Legal

#159
post #145

You would think these AI companies would learn by now that the legal field is not a place where you screw around. I mean, we just have to look at the record. Apparently, these particular AI boosters are incapable of learning

I mean if they aren't going to be forced to eat the liability then the hype they get from it is worth it. Not a great state of affairs...

Re: Claude for Legal

#160

Who's accountable when it does something wrong? Surely Anthropic Inc won't take the fall for you. There's no errors or omissions insurance, no legal accountability, no attorney-client privilege, and no bar association to handle disciplinary action. I think we should be realistic here, this is a more advanced version of those "will kits" that spit out a PDF. The legal system will not look fondly upon this stuff until…

FTA:

> The attorney using the plugin — not the plugin, and not Anthropic — is responsible for the legal positions taken in their work product.

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