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Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by tiahura on Friday December 27, 2024 @11:19AM (#42523408)
Drafting demand letters, drafting petitions, drafting discovery requests, drafting discovery responses, drafting golden rule letters, summarizing meet and confer calls, drafting motions, responding to motions, drafting depo outlines, summarizing depos, …

If you’re not using ai in your practice, you’re doing a disservice to your clients.

Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by singleshot_ on Friday December 27, 2024 @12:52PM (#42524323)
How do you get the LLM to the point where it can draft a demand letter? I guess I'm a little confused as to how the LLM is getting the particulars of the case in order to write a relevant letter. Are you typing all that stuff in as a prompt? Are you dumping all the case file documents in as prompts and summarizing them, and then dumping the summaries into the prompt?
Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by tiahura on Friday December 27, 2024 @01:02PM (#42524412)
Demand letters are the easiest. Drag and drop police report and medical records. Tell it to draft a demand letter. For most things, there are only a handful critical pages in the medical records, so if the original pdf is too big, I’ll trim excess pages. I may also add my personal case notes.

I use a custom prompt to adjust the tone, but that’s about it.

Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by singleshot_ on Saturday December 28, 2024 @11:25AM (#42532100)
I feel pretty uncomfortable dumping A/C privileged material into ChatGPT. Am I wrong? Or are you just limiting this to non-privileged material always?
Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by herval on Friday December 27, 2024 @05:43PM (#42526758)
curious about what tools you're using - is it just chatgpt? Any other apps/services/models?
Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by bdangubic on Friday December 27, 2024 @06:15PM (#42526956)
I use the same and have stopped needing lawyers for many things I used to. paying for chatgpt pro pays for itself.

imo while many here on HN debate the future of SWEs in the era of LLMs, there is no debate about future of many legal jobs - they will disappear

Re:Does current AI represent a dead end? by tiahura on Friday December 27, 2024 @06:08PM (#42526914)
Just ChatGPT and claude