The New Case Brief Bogeyman is Coming for YOU, and it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The New Case Brief Bogeyman is Coming for YOU, and it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 

For law students, your first encounter with AI will be in case briefing.

 

Just remember that those who are creating AI are playing both sides against the middle. Not only do they want to charge you for AI-generated case briefs, but they also give the professors a tool to detect that you used AI for your work product.

 

It is called https://gptzero.me/, and you may already be aware of it.

 

If you take a few seconds and copy some of our work product, you get these consistent ratings from GPTZERO. We are 100% HUMAN. If you take and modify our case briefs with your own content, you will get 100% HUMAN.

We cannot say the same thing for others.

 

It is a simple thing to take some of their content and to test it. When you test, take recent case briefs as some of the sites seem to be aware of the AI issue and present cases they did sometime in the past as examples, which show up ok on GPTZERO as human, but none of their recent content does. Their recent content shows up in many cases as 90% plus AI. Some have gotten smarter and take their AI outputs and manually add additional verbiage, and with those, you get 70 % AI-30 % Human-type results. If you decide to go AI, just remember it is the minimum, and in many cases, today AI does not even hit the minimum. Eventually, it will get there.

 

The bottom line is you still need to memorize the law. If you don’t, you will really pay a price in our AI future. As AI gets better and better, it will greatly benefit the small attorney practitioners who have their acts together. It will easily enable them to compete against the large firms. With small practitioners and their clients, it will provide a much greater level of competence with no additional increase in prices, with faster and more accurate results. More and better bang for the buck is never bad for business, and it will allow the smaller practitioners to steal away smaller and mid-sized companies from bigger firms. It will allow smaller firms to win many cases against the big companies that they used to lose.

 

But, AI will not enable a mediocre attorney and make them a star. If you want those trite 20-second understandings of cases and the law, go for it. If you want to learn the law and know what professors know you can have a brilliant future as an attorney.

 

As for the bigger firms, they will suffer tremendously because all those billable hours for the 300,000-page discovery review cases will disappear. For a while, they might be able to charge for results, but that will soon disappear, and the big firm’s headcounts will fall like a rock. Also, companies with in-house lawyers will be able to quickly and easily perform a large number of tasks that the big firms used to do for them.

 

So, for you, the budding law student faced with such an uncertain future, learn the law and take advantage of the new dynamics being presented to you.

Paul Owen