[woodruffw]

It matters in terms of remediation: incompetence implies that lawyers require better technical education on LLMs, while malice implies that the lawyer has violated an already established rule or law.

Lawyers undergo continuing legal education throughout their careers; in many (most?) jurisdictions, it’s mandatory. “LLMs are not legal search engines” as a CLE topic in the next decade would not surprise me remotely.

[adriancr]

Either way it's inexcusable, they should be disbarred if they are this incompetent.

[b112]

Understand, some lawyers finished last in class. Cramming for a bar exam != intelligence.

Don't let one dumbass, be a example of how all lawyers are.

[woodruffw]

I don’t think I implied that all lawyers are like this?

[b112]

Intended or not, the plural here, when discussing a single lawyer, left me with that impression:

"incompetence implies that lawyers require better technical education on LLMs"

Others may have a different take?

[woodruffw]

That should be read as "the presence of incompetence implies that those incompetent lawyers [...]." Sorry if you found the phrasing ambiguous.

(The only really important part of the original comment is the part about CLEs: we have an entire professional educational system that ought to be able to accommodate subjects like this.)

[mnd999]

Don’t test in production is the remediation. And if you don’t know that already you need to go back to law school.