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

Ostall
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”…
Read More

Trump’s New Lawyer In E. Jean Carroll Case Is An… Odd Choice

Ostall
It would appear that Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba is out of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against the former president … sort of. As with every other procedural aspect of this case, it’s substantially factual, and seems all but guaranteed to piss off Judge Lewis Kaplan. And he was already pretty pissed! To recap: In 2019, advice columnist E. Jean Carroll alleged that Trump raped her in a New York department store decades earlier. Trump immediately branded Carroll a liar and implied she was too ugly to rape — an allegation slightly undercut when he examined a picture of…
Read More

Donald Trump’s Ex-Lawyer On Documents Case Has Pithy Advice For Trump

Ostall
Tim Parlatore, who was a lawyer for Donald Trump in the classified documents case before he quit for personal reasons, offered some advice Tuesday to his old client: Shut up. (Watch the video below.) OK, Parlatore said it in more polite words during his appearance on CNN but his free counsel came in loud and clear. “You have the right to remain silent. Use it,” Parlatore said. Parlatore was shown video of Trump’s interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier in which the ex-president seemed, to many, to admit to willfully keeping sensitive files at Mar-a-Lago after receiving a subpoena to…
Read More

XRP Lawyer Hints At Ripple Winning SEC Case With A Fine

Ostall
Ripple XRP SEC Case: Although attorney John Deaton believes there is a high chance of the XRP SEC case going to a jury trial, he said there was also a likelihood of XRP winning the lawsuit with a fine. Currently, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple are awaiting the summary judgment by the court. The case is primarily contested on the SEC’s argument that XRP is sold in the form of unregistered securities. The case dates back to December 2020, when Ripple was accused of raising over $1.3 billion illegally. Also Read: US SEC’s New Rule To…
Read More