u/hereditydrift

Had a chance to try Westlaw Advantage. It sucks.

I've been able to try most legal "AI" services, but decided to do some tests with WL Advantage, which I haven't used.

It's absolutely horrible. No nuance to understanding filings. Suggests defenses and counterarguments that would fail in court because the counterarguments/defenses miss key facts that distinguish the cases I provided from the counterarguments/defenses. When I used the Claims Explorer, it pulled in claims that weren't applicable, and not a single claim that I had been able to find in my own research was there.

Building out my own databases using CC yields much better answers than WL, and in less than the 15-30 minutes it seems to take for WL AI to return an answer.

The only things WL and LN hold of any value are case law and secondary sources, but even that gate is being broken down as more free-access law databases become available.

I guess I expected it to have some "wow" factor, but not "wow, this sucks."

These companies have to see the writing on the wall that their value is sinking fast.

reddit.com
u/hereditydrift — 4 days ago

Women, children, and YOUNG MEN OF PROMISE

(18-second mark in video for what I'm referencing in the title)

What the fuck is so hard about just saying "people?" It pained her even to say men, so much so that she had to qualify it by using "young" and "of promise" for men... and only mentioned men after women, children, and innocent people.

DSA politicians seem to have such a hard time understanding the ills of idpol. It's something that seems to run through all of their candidates and elected officials.

Very bizarre statement and framing.

u/hereditydrift — 12 days ago
▲ 141 r/LawFirm

Potential Client's Question: Are you willing to work Saturdays and Sundays?

First time I've had a client ask me this since working for myself. And, ha... fuck no I'm not unless I screwed something up horribly that would need to be fixed over the weekend.

Instead of that, I just said, "if that's an expectation you have of your attorney, then I'm probably not a good fit for you."

Good luck to whoever the attorney is that gets saddled with that one.

Calls like that are enjoyable for the humor.

reddit.com
u/hereditydrift — 13 days ago