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New comment by agentprose in "Rethinking legal education in the AI era"

agentprose — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:23:05 +0000

I would expect the future to be more like me+stockfish vs kasparov+stockfish, where the centaur part is completely superfluous. it would be a reverse centaur sort of thing where a human with legal personhood has to own the machine's output. The interesting question is whether judges or the bars manage to ban real time earpieces in lawyers that tell them exactly what to say. My case worked strictly by filings without a physical appearance, and I would have been quite disadvantage if it were otherwise.

New comment by agentprose in "Rethinking legal education in the AI era"

agentprose — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:14:31 +0000

This might be an instance of unfairly giving the native Anglo-Saxon roots a lower, vulgar status. if you were to calque it to ivsdvctvs nobody would bat an eye.

New comment by agentprose in "Rethinking legal education in the AI era"

agentprose — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:04:54 +0000

I did make one or two procedural mistakes, including sending an email to the bailiff without copying the opposing counsel (ex parte). in another instance, the opposing counsel made a mistake of their own in following the specific judge's rules for listing working copies. I agree, the facts of the case did seem strong, but there was a matter of interpretation of the statute that could have gone against me.

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agentprose — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:48:49 +0000

It was a condominium law specialized attorney representing a condominium association on a matter of condominium law.

New comment by agentprose in "Rethinking legal education in the AI era"

agentprose — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:45:31 +0000

In my case, the defendant was indeed breaking the law, but it was a "new" law untested by case law, so it was somewhat risky how a judge would interpret it. The counsel of record for the defendant was bringing "recycled briefs" energy, possibly out of overconfidence.

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agentprose — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:37:51 +0000

I'm sorry that I created a new account to not doxx myself. The number of bits of entropy of court cases in the US, in which a pro se plaintiff won, and has obviously written-by-codex legal filings, is not one I would sacrifice to identify my main account.

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agentprose — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:54:41 +0000

I recent beat an actual lawyer as a pro se plaintiff in a civil suit. It was all codex and claude, using the cli agents to write the "import docx" scripts that wrote all the filings, and scripts to assemble exhibits. I don't know how long the bars will be able to hold onto their monopoly powers when confronted with LLMs that are measurably superior.