Category: Artificial Intelligence and Law
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Using NotebookLM for a Closed AI Project
Most AI tools are open-ended by design. You ask a question, the AI draws on everything it has ever been trained on, and you get an answer that may or may not be grounded in anything relevant to your actual work. That’s useful for a…
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When AI Ignores Your Instructions
When I teach or write about generative AI, I am very careful to explain that despite providing standing orders, you still have to check AI output because it will sometimes ignore those orders. Three examples illustrate the problem. ChatGPT Refuses to Stop Reassuring Me Generative…
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The Real Reason AI Works for Me
People ask me why I have embraced AI as enthusiastically as I have. It is not because I think it replaces legal judgment. It doesn’t. When I am teaching other attorneys, I say frequently that AI makes good lawyers better and reveals the bad ones.…
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Using AI More Efficiently: Standing Orders, Memory, and Projects
Anyone who has used AI tools such as Claude or ChatGPT has likely noticed a recurring frustration: each new conversation starts from zero. The user must re-explain who they are, what they do, who their audience is, and how they prefer information presented. For someone…
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Today I Was Asked Twice About AI. Here’s What I Use (and What I Do)
This morning, two colleagues asked me about what AI tools I use. It made me realize I talk about AI constantly but don’t always say outright: I teach this stuff. So let me say it clearly. I provide AI training and consulting for lawyers and…
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Pro Se Litigants: The Other Half of the AI Hallucination Problem
First, I want to correct something I have written in earlier posts. I sometimes have turned to Damien Charlotin’s AI Hallucination Cases website to discuss how many lawyers have gotten in trouble due to using fabrications in court filings. Well, I did not realize that…
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Your Firm Needs an AI Policy. Here Is Why.
AI is already in your firm. The question is whether anyone has written down the rules for using it. Lawyers, paralegals, and staff are using ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Lexis+ AI, and other generative AI tools right now. Some firms have made deliberate decisions about…
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Your AI Conversations Might Be Sold. Here’s What You Need to Know
If you use AI Chatbots and have installed certain free browser extensions, your AI conversations might be sitting in a commercial database right now, available for purchase. I know. That’s not what you wanted to read today. But this is exactly the kind of thing…