By skyforbes 
Recently saw a post about some established looking profile belonging to perhaps an international lawyer — talking about how ChatGPT sneaked itself in the middle of their service delivery. That post explained in detail that their client chose to communicate their requirements better via ChatGPT. Yes ChatGPT does a great job of simplifying meaning which sometimes gets occluded in the personally idiosyncratic ways of writing.
In that sense ChatGPT will definitely assist consumers of legal services to talk and communicate better with their lawyers in terms of the exact requirement that they want to be serviced. However, imv, that is quite a late realization, but. Because on the very first instance of using ChatGPT, I figured that this is going to influence the future in a very good measure and to not be informed about how to use it — for so long — is perhaps negligence, a criminal one (jk).
How it influenced my practice? Certainly — in the way practices of early adopters should be.*
I wanted to add corporate law also in my bouquet. Pre-ChatGPT, I’d received mandates, but I would end up giving it to my sister offices. To come upto speed quickly, I had reached out to some of my college folks — however help was not forthcoming from them perhaps owing to their very busy life. Some did help, but scarcity of time was always a dangling factor.
However, with ChatGPT, I was quickly able to add a practice in my bouquet. I was able to do that because I was a very early adopter of ChatGPT. Not the earliest for sure. ChatGPT helped me quickly come to terms with the principles, terms, doctrines, and practices — all of it in a very accessible way of explaining concepts through a question-answer format.
So unlike the veteran who was made an observer to how ChatGPT could be used, I saved myself the tragedy of a similar experience when before the client could reach ChatGPT and then come to me, I’d reached ChatGPT before going to the client — and that made all the difference at the fork in the journey of many more miles to keep.
