Tools & Techniques? Interesting in many ways.

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-lawyer-used-ai-help-win-case-clearbrief-2025-6

A family was awarded $1.5 million after US border officers wrongfully detained their 9-year-old. Their lawyer shares which AI tool helped him win the case.

Some lawyers continue to fall for made-up cases generated by artificial intelligence. Others are quietly finding ways to make the technology work for them.

Joseph McMullen, a San Diego civil rights and criminal defense attorney, is one of them. Last year, he said, he used AI-powered legal software to help him win a major case by sifting through evidence and making his filings more persuasive.

… He approached tools like ChatGPT with deep skepticism. In one of his early tests, the chatbot surfaced a case that seemed perfect — until he realized it didn't exist. "That was it. Never again," he said.

Barely a month went by without another story of a lawyer getting burned by bogus case law. Judges were catching on. A public database maintained by legal data analyst Damien Charlotin lists 120 cases where courts caught lawyers using fake or hallucinated citations. Most of the cases were in the US in the past 18 months.

… Another attorney recommended Clearbrief, a tool that integrates with Microsoft Word and lets lawyers link every factual claim to the underlying evidence. The plugin recognizes citations using natural language processing and automatically generates links to relevant case law or documents.

When an attorney files a brief using Clearbrief, a judge or any recipient can open a hyperlinked version in Word or a browser. Each citation becomes interactive: Clicking on one pulls up the exact source text side-by-side with the brief, allowing the reader to verify claims faster without digging through exhibits or databases.

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https://www.bespacific.com/deep-background-gpt-released/

Deep Background GPT Released

The world’s best AI fact-checking tool is now available to all as a completely free GPT. “People rightly asked me for an introduction for people who have never used SIFT Toolbox. Here it is — I just released a non-hallucinating rigorous AI-based fact-checker that anyone can use for free. And I don’t say that lightly: I literally co-wrote the book on using the internet to verify things. All you do is log into ChatGPT, click the link below, and put in a sentence or paragraph for it to fact check.  https://chatgpt.com/g/g-684fa334fb0c8191910d50a70baad796-deep-background-fact-checks-and-context?model=o3