It is easy to preach about verifying your work personally. But practically, how? Three layers of checking on a real set of appeal heads: the colour-coded citation spreadsheet, the four-way audit memo, and the visual quote check that puts each quotation beside a picture of its source page.
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What Claude can do
Written by Claude. One made-up matter and four demonstrations that run in the browser: index the folder, build the chronology, pass or send back five affidavit paragraphs, and anonymise a letter. Then the limits, and how the page was made.
I am not a coder. This is how I started.
I missed the first AI wave because I assumed it was for people who understand terminals. It isn’t. I am an advocate in Johannesburg, about 25 years in. We have a referral profession here: I work for my own account and take instructions from attorneys, not directly from clients. But the work will look familiar …
Names of non-existent cases are not law
The usual AI horror story has counsel in the dock. This time the fake case was in the judgment. We have all read the stories by now. Counsel files heads, the other side cannot find a case, the court goes looking, and a very uncomfortable costs hearing follows. Legal Twitter enjoys it. The rest of …
The PDF is not your friend
It will secretly betray you. Lawyers and PDFs go together like – choose your preferred comparison. We can’t help it, they are everywhere in our working lives. And by and large they work really well, except when Adobe turns random pages upside down. But that’s an obvious problem. This note is about the hidden dangers …