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The fact that anyone thinks this will ever happen reveals a fundamental misunderstanding of what a lawyer does. They are responsible and liable for your case to be presented to a judge. An AI can't be liable and responsible for that. It will still need someone to rubber stamp its output. And that person will be a credentialed lawyer



True, but one lawyer can do a huge amount of rubber stamping. That takes the price of billable hours to nearly zero.

Don’t get me started on replacing judges with AI agents. At the end of the day they’re just lawyers as well.


You… may misunderstand what the ‘rubber stamping’ is actually about. A lawyer signing off on something, at least theoretically, means that someone has read it, understood it, considering how it pertains to [whatever], and can stand over it. An LLM pretending to (the above) is not a reasonable substitute.


> A lawyer signing off on something, at least theoretically, means that someone has read it, understood it, considering how it pertains to [whatever], and can stand over it.

How often does the lawyer/judge actually read everything as opposed to trusting the work of their paralegals/clerks?


My wife was a clerk. The judges read every line multiple times because most clerk submissions go through multiple drafts


"Rubber stamping" is an English idiom that specifically means to approve without reading or understanding it.


Haha, what? You have to read the entire thing to rubber stamp it and then fix any issues. It's really not going to take billable hours to nearly zero at all. And it will be even more difficult for judges, whose rulings set precedent and thus must be carefully worded




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