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Friday, February 3, 2023

ChatGPT - Uses for Lawyers

ChatGPT can be a promising tool with the most innovative technology by far, for legal professionals to streamline their practice and stay ahead of the curve. ChatGPT will not replace the lawyers. On the contrary, it will make us better professionals.

The most probable Uses could be:

Info at Finger Tips: ChatGPT is a knowledge search engine. When you type a question in any search engine, the results are a series of links. What is different in ChatGPT is that it consults what it has scanned beforehand and provides you with a summary text containing the reply to the question you asked.

Legal Advice: Lawyers can use ChatGPT to provide legal advice to their clients quickly and efficiently and easily search for relevant legal information and case law, from the voluminous information fed into it. ChatGPT admits that it does not know anything after 2021, as that information has not been updated into it.

Perform Routine Legal Tasks: ChatGPT is more ideal for delegating routine tasks, allowing lawyers to focus on more complex tasks. On the basis of the material provided, it can create Case summaries in a few minutes.

Drafting: ChatGPT can be used in high-volume drafting and reviewing contracts and other legal documents. Mostly standardized documents, like lease agreements, applications, and pleadings, notices, questionnaires, etc., can be generated. The legal texts it generates can be hit-and-miss and requires scrutiny and proofreading. However, the results produced by ChatGPT can be better than a fresh law grad, in certain cases. 

Legal work often involves complex reasoning, interpretation, and decision-making that requires human judgment and creativity. It does not have the capability to completely replace lawyers at this point. 

When asked about some legal advice, ChatGPT will tell you it is not qualified to give legal advice. Seems like ChatGPT is unlikely to completely replace lawyers in the near future. 


Sources:
  • https://www.lamiroy.com/blog/chatgpt-for-lawyers/ 
  • https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2023-01-25/chatgpt-midjourney-generative-ai-and-future-of-work/101882580?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=twitter&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
  • https://www.kiplinger.com/personal-finance/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-and-legal-services

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