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AI lawyer to fight first legal case in court startup claims • The Register

In Brief An AI language model is apparently going to be used during an upcoming legal hearing to defend someone in a real case. The goal is to demonstrate that AI can replace lawyers, according to the CEO of the consumer rights-focused startup DoNotPay. Large language models like ChatGPT generate text, and learn to model the relationships between words after having been trained on webpages scraped from the internet. Unfortunately, their outputs often have to be steered away from producing information that is biased and discriminatory, as reflected from their training data. They are also prone to generating false “facts”…
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Submit by 3rd February, 2023 – The RMLNLU Law Review Blog

About RMLNLU Dr. Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University is an institute for law in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Dr. RMLNLU was established in the year 2005, and since then, has been providing undergraduate and postgraduate legal education. About the Journal Committee The Committee was constituted with the objective of promoting legal research and writing. Apart from conducting the RMLNLU International Legal Essay Writing Competition every year, the Committee annually publishes two peer reviewed journals – the RMLNLU Law Review and the RMLNLU Journal on CMET (Communication, Media, Entertainment and Technology) Law. Both these journals publish articles, essays, case notes/comments…
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An Analysis of Article 38 – The RMLNLU Law Review Blog

By: Tarun Ashok INTRODUCTION The ethos of Indian democracy has been perennially centered around ideas of justice- political, economic, and social, as enshrined in the Constitution. Article 38 of the Directive Principles of State Policy outlines these values ​​as aspirational ideals for the diverse institutions of national life. It encapsulates and promotes aspects such as social justice, distributive justice, and the strengthening of the welfare state. However, in recent times, the state and its myriad institutions have failed to be sufficiently informed by these ideals. I. A BACKGROUND TO THE ARTICLE 38 A cursory understanding of the meaning and import…
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Police case against lawyer for collecting ‘bribe’ for judges in Kerala

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Ex-Trump Attorney Who Quit Classified-Documents Case Offers Ex-President Free Legal Advice: STFU

If you’ve been keeping tabs on the legal affairs of one Donald Trump, you likely know that the ex-president is currently struggling to find lawyers willing to represent him in the classified-documents case brought by the Department of Justice. The search for attorneys was necessary by not one, not two, but three lawyers who were working for Trump up and quitting over the course of less than a month, with two of them giving notice just one day after Trump was indicted. Unfortunately for the former guy, it appears that no one is jumping to defend him, which, not surprisingly,…
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Judge Fines Two Lawyers For Using Fake Cases From ChatGPT

Topline Two lawyers who used fake cases generated by ChatGPT, were handed a joint $5,000 fine and ordered to reach out to judges mentioned in the fake cases with information about the situation, marking the first major sanctions to come from the use of artificial intelligence in the legal fields. Lawyers who presented cases created by ChatGPT in a courtroom were determined to have acted in bad … [+] faith and were sanctioned with a $5,000 fine. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) Getty Images Key Facts In his decision, New York District Judge P. Kevin Castel said Steven Schwartz—the lawyer…
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Trump sues Michael Cohen, a key witness in the NY criminal case, seeking $500 million

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday against his former lawyer Michael Cohen — who has emerged as a key witness in the criminal case against him — seeking more than $500 million in damages and alleging “breaches of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, conversion, and breach of contract.” Cohen was the key witness to testify last month before a Manhattan grand jury, which then approved a 34-count indictment against Trump, who has denied any wrongdoing. The complaint accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship with Trump by publicly disclosing information about him and “spreading…
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Trump indictment drama intensifies with yet another lawyer change

Within 24 hours of having been advised that he had been indicted by a federal grand jury, former President Donald Trump announced on his social media platform, Truth Social, that he was getting a new lawyer to defend him against special counsel Jack Smith and the US government. Trump’s efforts to revamp his legal team are about as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as long as his lawyers cannot defend Trump from … himself. We’ve seen this before, with Trump’s penchant for changing legal counsel seems at the drop of a hat throughout his ongoing legal…