What can lawyers gAIn from artificial intelligence

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What can lawyers gAIn from artificial
intelligence?
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These days, you cant go to a legal conference or
open a legal journal without at least some
commentary about AIs impact on the profession.
By now, you have probably heard about the
ChatGPT lawyer who cited cases in a brief filed
in federal district court that were not real but
generated by the chatbot. A thirty-year
practitioner, the attorney admitted he did not
comprehend that ChatGPT could fabricate cases.
In response, some federal court judges have
issued standing orders requiring lawyers to
certify they did not use artificial intelligence
or, if AI was used to draft their filings, a
human checked the accuracy of the cases cited
therein. The reasons for not using AI at all or
using it in conjunction with traditional research
methods such as Westlaw or Lexis are well taken.
As Judge Brantley Starr stated in his Order, the
platforms are prone to hallucinations and bias,
and these large language models did not take an
oath you did. Before writing off AI as not
worth the risk -news flash- you may already be
using it! If you asked Alexa a question today or
spellchecked an email in your Gmail account, you
used AI. And the messaging around the legal world
seems to be that AI is here to stay. Westlaw
Precision now has generative AI and Casetext is
now marketing CoCounsel as the First AI Legal
Assistant that can review documents, prepare
legal research memos, and analyze contracts.
Spellbook boasts that it redlines contracts ten
times faster with AI. Without question, these
tools could produce a legal research memo in mere
seconds that might take a new associate hours to
write. Despite their flaws, these tools can be
beneficial if the human (lawyer) touch remains.
We must harness AI for the good of our clients
and to maintain the integrity of the courts. The
ABA has taken the lead by forming a Task Force on
Law and Artificial Intelligence to examine the
impact of AI on the practice
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