>[to the judge on behalf of Schwartz] Mr. Schwartz, someone who barely does federal research, chose to use this new technology.
That’s a horrible excuse. I’m not a lawyer and don’t do caselaw research on any sort of regular basis but I have still poked around a bit when something strikes my interest. Compared to google they’re clunky and have poor matching, but I don’t remember it taking me more than half an hour or so to figure out which system would have the case I want and have to drill down to find it. ChatGPT was giving the the lawyer the (made up) case. It should really be a trivial task to find it in a caselaw database. Heck if I was the lawyer I would really really want to find the full text case! Who knows what broader context or additional nuggets of useful information it might have for my current client’s issue?
I would not be surprised if he went looking, couldn’t find it easily, and just said “whatever it has to be there somewhere and I can get by without the entire thing”
That’s a horrible excuse. I’m not a lawyer and don’t do caselaw research on any sort of regular basis but I have still poked around a bit when something strikes my interest. Compared to google they’re clunky and have poor matching, but I don’t remember it taking me more than half an hour or so to figure out which system would have the case I want and have to drill down to find it. ChatGPT was giving the the lawyer the (made up) case. It should really be a trivial task to find it in a caselaw database. Heck if I was the lawyer I would really really want to find the full text case! Who knows what broader context or additional nuggets of useful information it might have for my current client’s issue?
I would not be surprised if he went looking, couldn’t find it easily, and just said “whatever it has to be there somewhere and I can get by without the entire thing”