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by prima-facie
31 days ago
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Somewhat off-topic: I've spent thousands of pounds on legal advice which has ranged from poor to mediocre. I found that most solicitors would refrain from giving proper advice and are there only to be instructed.
You have to do your own homework, read the law, the case-law, prepare notes and documents, etc. With the rise of LLMs I found it easier to do all these things and come prepared to these meetings, or even do some of the solicitor's work on your own. For example I've found Gemini 3 to be exceptional at reasoning on the legal side - to the extent where I was able to explore and reason about very thorny topics from all sides. I found the legal profession to be a prime candidate to disruption using LLMs, especially the initial consultation phase (Do I have a claim?).
One of the things that's protecting the status-quo, for the time being, is the law - for example in the UK you can't actually offer any sort of legal services without being SRA-accredited. There's also lots of secrecy within the profession, and lots of procedural tricks that lay people are not aware of. AI could make all of these more accessible for the lay person. |
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How can AI learn the secret procedural tricks? Where's the training data?
And is there a legal consequence for AI giving bad/incorrect legal advice? Can they get disbarred?
Can you be sure the AI tool even read an entire piece of legislation (inb4 "you can't with lawyers either" : I thought we're aiming for better)?
How will they understand the inner workings of courts, CPS etc? How will they network with other lawyers for advice and learning (how will the LLM train on that)?