Comment by shibapuppie
15 hours ago
Not requiring a lawyer and not doing your due diligence aren't mutually exclusive.
Just because you don't need a lawyer doesn't mean it's not in your best interest to get one.
A lawyer isn't going to hallucinate case law that doesn't exist. And if THEIR AI does? THEY'RE on the hook, not you.
Yeah, I don't know about the whole "THEY'RE on the hook". When it gets to the point where you discover that your lawyer didn't do what they're supposed to do, you're deep in the hole.
A recent experience for me was a lawyer I hired just forwarding whatever their LLM service said. Granted it was for a commercial contract so doesn't require that much legal muscle, I imagine, but I had to go through multiple rounds of feedback just to point out problems in their amendments. And the response was something along the lines of "yeah that could be a problem, let me review it". It was quite a bit of money too but the experience left me without much confidence that having a lawyer review the contract was any better than just running it through any capable model myself.
Then... double-check it yourself? The whole issue with hiring a lawyer in the first place is that defeats the point for the minuscule amount of claims being made.
So it's not worth it to file the claim then!! What's so hard to understand about that?
You need legal advice? You need a lawyer.
The lawyer costs more than what you've lost? Sorry, you're SOL then unless you want to piss off a judge and definitely not get the verdict you want.
Again, small claims court's entire reason for existence is that you do not need a lawyer so that you can pursue small claims like this easily.