@QMS A friend conducted a jury trial a couple of months ago. His assistant fed him AI generated questions to his witnesses. Observers said it was nuts. He lost what should have been an easy case. Shakespeare laid it out for us: "First, they came after the lawyers...".
Here are the problems causing delays on the remaining hearings. I had a case taken off the docket because they wanted one more notarized affidavit from my witness. This is strictly a local rule of that county. I bring the witness to court and examine her on the record. They want a sworn preview. She lives hours away, spends every day with her critically ill husband in a hospital, can't print a document from her email, and can't find a notary. The affidavit can be prepared in 15 minutes, but then what? To get a letter from my office to her home might take over 2 weeks, because our mail service is horrible.
Another case is ready to be set, except the notarized waiver of service hasn't gotten to my mail box. I'm stuck again.
Btw, how is your back? Did you ever get it figured out what caused the problem?
I hope it is ok and that you have some new recipe to try out, friend!

Good to "see" you up and about. Sounds like the goal line
is getting closer by the week. Sure it will be a relief to unload.

I don't understand why people use AI. Is it just simple mental
laziness. People of our vintage would rather analyze and make
assessments on our own. But then again, we have a long track
record of doing just that, before the advent of computer generated
reasoning. Good luck and thanks for the OT!

@soryang @soryang Every war everywhere in all of history was fought to steal treasure. A righteous excuse to conduct it must be fabricated. Fight the commies! Fight the Fascists! Even our misnamed Civil War, which was actually the US invading a sovereign Confederacy, was due to the South refusing to pay tariffs. The South was not allowed to have nice things, like lucrative trade with England.
I found the Iraq War to be embarrassing, but I haven't had a day in my adult life that I didn't find something about my country that shamed me.
I was 17 when Woodstock happened. It has stayed in my rebellious mind since then. Give me an "F"!
A radio station that played rock music emanated out of the Univ. of Texas campus. Me and my college pals made it a point to have the station playing at midnight when it shut down for the night. The sign off song was the recording of Hendrix performing the Star Spangled Banner on the stage at Woodstock.
Well, we could'a been great, friend. We got blinded by those dollar signs in our eyes.
Thanks for the videos! I ran out of time yesterday and missed that Nawfal vid. We can all learn a lot, and remember our hippy days with Country Joe and the Fish!

I studied them, I briefed them in the old days. I never was impressed with them. I did play with toy soldiers as a child under ten. My uncle a WWII veteran, sold models as a hobby, so I did build a couple as a child. The coverage of piles of corpses from WWII, the holocaust, Nanking, Hiroshima, etc., kept the fantasy under strict limits. Also, Country Joe.

In the mideast, the colonization of the minds of the vassal states by Lord Cromer style orientalism didn't allow them to see reality, till Iran shoved it in their face. There was no cost benefit analysis by the US in the over extension of its massive base structure, it's imperial misadventures, and its developing obsolescence. In East Asia the extensive US base structure, the legacy of WWII, even as it is constantly updated in an ongoing grift, is understood to be only a tripwire. Now the inference drawn there, is that the tripwire is a fiction. This was suspected for several years before the Iran fiasco we now have.

Okay, Commander Bobby Jones, no doubt has quite a bit of practical experience. I like the guy, and usually agree with his views. As a child, he was super impressed by the celebration after the first Iraq War. As an older person, I wasn't impressed even at the time. A veteran friend I had been close to, said excitedly at the time, "Hey, we finally won one!" To me the "military feat" was in the same category as Grenada, and Panama. Iraq was never anything more than a small state obviously without the means to stop the US led multi national invasion. How ironic that the so called revolution in military affairs has gone in the other direction.

Thanks for the Odds & Ends, OtC! I often think of the evidentiary impact, of internet comms, AI, etc. How would this look in discovery? At hearing, at trial? What a nightmare I think it must be in actual practice.

@enhydra lutris Just this morning, I read a headline that Anthropic's CEO has called for an immediate slow down on AI development. I wonder if State Bars are paying attention.
And you are correct that using AI with clients and staff instantaneously shares those privileged communications with any person or entity that pays the AI company to be on the share list. It is insane, friend.
The CLE course will be sponsored by AI tech firms. It will be presented to the lawyers in attendance as pure magic. I attended such a presentation for free, just to claim an hour's CLE credit. Not a single lawyer spoke. Just sales reps. I am just so done with this bs.
Well, are you going to escape the heat today? I will be in front of an a/c. I am a wuss.
I bet you figure out a way to have some fun, my friend!

your ongoing ithdrawal from the legal profession. So,

When does a client's use of AI waive privilege?.

One might consider reversing that, n'est ce pas? When does it not?

Sharing private or otherwise priveleged discussions or documents with any third party, hmmmm? If the AI machine in question doesn't qualify, what about all the other users it will share your shit with because anything yu tell or show it will be incorporated in its learning or training, will it not?

Telling other people, or, especially "the public" the gist or basis of the legal advice or theory you have been given, such as, perhaps,"dear chatbot, my atty says blah, blah, blah, is that true?" Again Who and/or what is Mr. chatbot.

In both cases, is the bot the only entity with access to the informatin and all that? (consider especially that the feebs, cia, and dog only knows how many others are scraping your communications)

a fertile field for exploration and litigation