The Fin · The AI reckoning arrives for Australia’s legal industry
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ran an entire Fair Work Commission case using a team of AI agents, primarily ChatGPT Pro, to research, draft arguments, check citations, and generate courtroom submissions
$200 a month for ChatGPT Pro; about 20 days of personal work over an eight-month case; 10-15 AI agents running simultaneously
“When work comes in, the intake agent… preparer agent does the first draft… reviewer agent checks that draft… a person always approves before anything reaches the client.”
“Number two, lawyers need to educate members of the firm about the difference between traditional legal research using Westlaw and the use of generative artificial intelligence”
“No, this has been primarily sponsor funded. ... the way these teams ... sponsorship revenue is the main generator”
“Lawyers researching cases, or citing cases that are made up because they just assume that those cases are real because the AI came up with them, but there's no verification involved”
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