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Dec. 5, 2025

Your new co-counsel? Like it or not, it's AI

Lawyers can't ignore generative AI, but they also can't abdicate their professional responsibilities to verify accuracy and provide competent representation.

Caroline A. Yuen

Senior Associate
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP

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Regina Wang

Senior Associate
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP

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Your new co-counsel? Like it or not, it's AI
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Three years ago, on Nov. 30, 2022, OpenAI quietly released a free large language model (LLM) chatbot that could seemingly answer any question you had. Chatbots existed before, but they sounded, well, like a chatbot. The brilliance of ChatGPT is that it can process complex information to create new content. Older, rule-based chatbots mostly performed predefined tasks depending on the input. An engineer would have to pre-program the chatbot to identify user queries and provide ...

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