ITS OVER FOR GENAI IN THE PRACTICE OF LAW– AND I TOLD YOU SO

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So after the Heppner ruling last week, any law firm using GenAI in connection with the practice of law is in VERY serious trouble.

Eesh. Bloodbath on the horizon for #biglaw.

But truthfully Heppner is the best thing that could have happened to #biglaw firms and their clients.

GenAI wasn’t saving anybody any money on bills anyway. I heard many #biglaw associates were billing MORE because they were trying to figure out how to use regrettable systems like Harvey in a way that actually was useful and didn’t get their clients sanctioned.

Still law firm leadership–so desperate to seem relevant– was shoving the technology down peoples’ throats at the behest of VERY short term inhouse counsel who were more focused on saving a buck (nope) than getting good legal rules (always a serious judgment issue.)

These folks were unlikely to figure out how poisonous GenAI was to their legal pursuits on their own and the relatively early ruling in Heppner really helped save these guy’s bacon. Best case scenario for them. Real canary in the coalmine situation.

I suspect MOST of the miners (read: law firms using GenAI products) will now make it out alive– and those that don’t have it coming at this point.

As far as I’m concerned Harvey and similar technologies are now bankrupt. We’ll see if their PE backers are smart enough to figure that out or need the courts to explain it to them (probably the latter.)

I suspect there will soon be a large number of law firms/lawyers that come out against GenAI usage now–heroes each *eyeroll*– but remember who saw it first.

The Czar.

And Troutman Amin, LLP.

Remember this video from over a year ago?

Everybody else is a follower.

They react.

We lead.

The end.

You have to know who you can trust out there.

Who has reliable judgment and who doesn’t.

Who you want in your corner when the chips are down.

Isn’t it time you had lead counsel who can actually lead?

Chat soon.

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The Czar of TCPAWorld Eric Troutman is one of the country’s prominent class action defense lawyers and is nationally recognized in Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) litigation and compliance. He has served as lead defense counsel in more than 70 national TCPA class actions and has litigated nearly a thousand individual TCPA cases in his role as national strategic litigation counsel for major banks and finance companies. He also helps industry participants build TCPA-compliant processes, policies, and systems. Eric has built a national litigation practice based upon deep experience, rigorous analysis and extraordinary responsiveness. Eric and his team feel equally at home litigating multibillion dollar telecommunications class actions in federal court as they do developing and executing national litigation strategies for institutions facing an onslaught of individual TCPA matters. They thrive in each of these roles – delivering consistently excellent results – while never losing sight of the client experience. While many firms now tout TCPA expertise, Eric has been there from the beginning. He built one of the country’s first TCPA-only defense teams and began serving as national TCPA counsel for his clients nearly a decade ago. This perspective allows him to swiftly develop the right litigation strategies for dealing with recurring problems, without wasting time on tactics that are bound to fail. Eric’s rich historical perspective and encyclopedic knowledge of the TCPA landscape also make him an invaluable resource to institutional compliance teams struggling to comply with the shifting regulatory landscape. No task is too small – or too big. Indeed, Eric and his team have helped build TCPA-compliant systems and processes for some of the largest and most complex corporate entities in the country. He commonly works with in-house compliance counsel to build and implement enterprise and business-line specific TCPA solutions, performs TCPA audits and drafts and reviews proposed TCPA policies and procedures. He and his team also have the technical expertise necessary to assist call centers seeking to develop TCPA-resistant call path architecture or to modify existing telephony and software integration to better insulate from potential TCPA exposure. Eric has built a reputation for thought leadership. An avid blogger and speaker, he has been at the forefront of the industry’s effort to push for clarity and a return to sanity for the TCPA for years. He was selected to advocate for the financial services industry on important TCPA issues before the Federal Communications Commission and co-authored the nation’s only comprehensive practice guide on TCPA defense. In his spare time, Eric leads defense teams representing banks and other financial services companies in consumer finance litigation matters. He has experience representing clients in UCC, TILA, RESPA FCRA, CCRA, CLRA, FDCPA, RFDCPA and FCCPA claims, as well as in fraud and bank operations issues.

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