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Kagan praised Claude's analysis of a complex legal issue.
Many lawyers have been caught using ChatGPT poorly in case filings.
The legal profession is grappling with its use of AI.
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Can AI provide legitimately useful assistance to lawyers and judges? One of the nation's most powerful attorneys seems to think so.
US associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said recently that Anthropic's Claude chatbot "did an exceptional job of figuring out an extremely difficult" Constitutional dispute -- one that had twice previously divided the Court, according to a report from Bloomberg Law.
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Speaking at the Ninth Circuit's judicial conference in Monterey, California last month, Kagan referred to recent blog posts from Supreme Court litigator Adam Unikowsky, which describe his experiments using Claude for complex legal analysis. The dispute in question revolved around the Confrontation Clause, part of the Sixth Amendment, which guarantees defendants the opportunity to cross-examine witnesses testifying against them in court.
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