Just wanna note this somewhere—

According to Canadian legal tech firm Clio, in 2023, 19% of North American law firms were using AI. In 2024, that number jumped up to 79%, with two-thirds reporting weekly use, and one-third reporting daily.

Not sure how accurate that is (i.e. how did they get their sample?), but honestly, I can see the upward trend being a thing. It worries me. The process of coming to justice and compromise isn’t an MadLibs where you just insert whatever noun and verb into a pre-constructed grammatical structure. That’s not how thinking works. I don’t want the equivalent of my smartphone keyboard’s predictive dictionary making my legal arguments for me. Who the fuck is happy about this? Where is this ethical? And yeah I know certain documents are fairly copy-and-paste, but we literally have Word Templates for that. Coming to the conclusion of an actual argument, via ChatGPT? Disgusting.