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Where is AI legal help dangerous, what still needs a human lawyer?

AI makes things up with confidence: in 2024 Stanford found legal research tools wrong on about 1 in 6 queries and general chatbots on 58-82%, and Damien Charlotin's database lists over 2,200 cases of courts facing AI-made-up citations. Anything with real downside (fundraising documents, equity, disputes, regulatory filings, litigation) needs a human lawyer as the final check. And a public chatbot may not be confidential: in United States v. Heppner a US court held a defendant's chats with the public version of Claude were not privileged.

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On the AI map, 29 October 2026 Legal and contracts

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