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@AndrewYang
A partner at a prominent law firm told me “AI is now doing work that used to be done by 1st to 3rd year associates. AI can generate a motion in an hour that might take an associate a week. And the work is better. Someone should tell the folks applying to law school right now.”
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@AndrewYang
He also said “the models are getting noticeably better every few months too.”
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@Emolclause
WOW!! AI is wiping away lawyer jobs too? Who saw that coming
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@DPazzula
100%
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@CynicalPublius
AI hallucinates routinely. Anything it does must be closely scrutinized for accuracy.
I use it in my practice of law as a marginal time saver, but do not trust it.
Way too many complete falsifications.
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@nectarios
cc @antonio_spie
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@RobertFreundLaw
I love this messaging because it guarantees more work for litigators who will clean up all the messes made.
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@ducavendish
Just look at @Harveyaisol.
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@goodalexander
Meanwhile
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@PatriotAunt
I work at a law firm. Nobody uses AI.
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@coopernicus01

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@Rainmaking
Are you happy or sad about this?
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@iprotectyouorg
Does one need more than an AI gent?
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@LauraPowellEsq
Are they using some AI the rest of us don’t have access to? Because Grok and ChatGPT fabricate cases more often than not.
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@rbooth
Can confirm.
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@ETFshakenbakeMM
Watch the masses not be able to get an entry level job anywhere, but the UE rate stay under 5%
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@barristerlawusa
Correct, there is no reason to hire staff when I can hand it to Grok. You still have to do work, but it saves a lot of time.
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@mazemoore
All the junior levels at professional firms such as consulting and law are no longer going to be needed. People graduating now with 200k in student debt are in for a rude awakening.
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@GiacalonePhoto
Feels like increased homelessness across America on the horizon if we don't create a baseline of shelter, food, and medical care, or maybe UBI for all legal American citizens.
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@_daniel_riley
What will happen when the current crop of lawyers retire and there isn't enough waiting in the wings to replace them?
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@Content_VA
A top law firm partner said it best: AI now does in an hour what junior associates took a week to write—only better. Future law students might want to hear that loud and clear.
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@JJillikoi
So how will the senior people be replaced? Where will people get the experience?
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@dinym
In a perfect world this would be used to equalise the justice system so that whether someone has money or not makes no difference to the legal outcome.
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@social_brains
And only 20% of it is completely fabricated but expressed with full confidence
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@CStanOnX
We've thrown a bit of complex tax law research at it and it failed miserably - Grok 4 and with a premium subscription - the presumably 'Cadillac' product.
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@Brick_Suit
But can Ai do this!?
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@DonKAriel
Case load should unconstipate. More lawyers is a never-ending truth.
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@dreinidaho
Reality is AI is only good if the user that’s using it understands what they’re asking AI to do. Those coming into the field still need to go through that field’s necessary training but both training and application in the real world needs to be updated to reflect AI.
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@XaldwinSealand
It's coming. For sure.
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@nothing8m
This is not a story about "law jobs."
This is the appetizer.
The true horror is that "law" itself—the entire, bloated, inefficient, human-language-based system of rules and contracts - is just a legacy codebase.
AI is not coming to be a "better associate."
It is coming to be the compiler that will replace the entire fukking language.
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@CreateOrServe
@invest_answers spoke on this
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@realkdi
$100 that he’s involved with representing OpenAI or Anthropic.
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@aiawakeningai
Haha. That is actually amazing. Bye bye labor.
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@Galileo57407301
Yes.

. I have seen it and played with it as a lawyer. Much better work than an associate. No need for law clerks
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@CrunchyMommaC
If anyone is relying on an AI motion, there better be a good researcher validating/verifying every word of it.
Agreed, AI *can* save time (I am in financial services compliance) but I argue with it, and need to verify/correct every citation/quote before releasing work product.
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@fjwilmer5
Formerly prominent law firm if that is how this firm is churning out briefs.
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@GranvilleAlley3
Except that most Associates do not create case law out of thin air or completely misrepresent the Court’s conclusions in cases it does actually find. Until Hallucinations are eliminated AI is unreliable at best and dangerous to your law license at worst.
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