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How This Lawyer Used AI to Help Him Win a .5 Million Case

Some lawyers continue to fall for made-up cases generated by artificial intelligence. Others are quietly finding ways to make the technology work for them.Joseph McMullen, a San Diego civil rights and criminal defense attorney, is one of them. Last year, he said, he used AI-powered legal software to help him…

Claude Faked a Legal Citation. a Lawyer Had to Clean It up.

A lawyer defending Anthropic had to clean up after the company’s AI bot, calling it “an embarrassing and unintentional mistake.”In a copyright lawsuit over Anthropic’s use of music lyrics, the company’s legal team used its AI assistant, Claude, to help draft a citation in an expert report. Claude provided the…