Doug Nazarian

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None of us can be free until nerd persecution is ended on this planet.

Happy 70th Birthday to HOF’er, Eddie Murray! ⚾️ #Orioles #SteadyEddie #Legend 🧡🖤🎂🎉

a man in a bowling alley says " yeah well that 's just like your opinion man . " ALT: a man in a bowling alley says " yeah well that 's just like your opinion man . "

The Appellate Court of Maryland holds its monthly Conference this morning. Watch for new reported opinions!

No! No idea why.

As it happens, my Connecticut-born and raised mother-in-law does. Always has.

Innocent.

But students and interns and clerks are going to lose a lot of learning value if they have generative AI create the arguments for them, especially given the flaws and biases baked into the underlying data sets. We all learn lawyering by doing it. /end

without getting the intellectual and pedagogical benefit of constructing the argument in the first place. Judges and more senior lawyers are more editors and drafters to be sure, and there are lots of filings and orders that probably can be automated pretty safely. /3

I'm not sure, though, why it's a good thing to have AI generate prose. That process of translating information into prose is how the person learns and refines the analysis. When you get an AI first draft, you have to fight through the potential errors and completion biases, /2

Gathering information is fine--Westlaw and Lexis have been doing that forever, and natural language searching and document cite-checking and similar automation functions are great and helpful. /1

and at the expense of the team's ability to learn how to construct arguments and think critically themselves. It's one thing to use technology to gather information, altogether another to outsource thinking and analysis to it, especially when we can't trust that it's right. /end

The question about what problem the technology helps solve is a fair one, but at this point pushing generative AI is allowing the technological tail to wag the analytical dog. Our Court is not so inefficient that we should be forcing unreliable technology to speed things up for the sake of it, /2

I disagree, respectfully, that prohibiting my team from using generative AI is like requiring them to do book research or use a typewriter. There are serious reliability problems with this technology and I have no reason to believe at this point that it adds efficiency or saves time. /1

The assumption seems to swallow the premise.

I'm struggling to follow your thesis. On the one hand, we don't really know what "responsible" AI usage means; on the other, we should assume that most of it is "responsible" because lawyers say in surveys that they're using it and most don't get busted for filing briefs with hallucinated cases?

That’s awesome.

“Roses are red,
Violets are blue”
Won’t qualify you as a botanical expert
Under 702

Remedies / Civ Pro Valentines:

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Moot my demand
By saying, “I do”

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Tho’ equity act in personam
It can’t restrain my love for you

Roses are red
Violets are blue
A constructive trust
Couldn’t account for you

Workshopping these, obvs.

Roses are red.
I see my light is, too.
If there are no further questions . . .

#AppellateValentines

Pitchers and catchers
Batters swinging and hitting
I'm glad baseball's back!

This guy can't miss bats
and that guy can't get on base
It still beats football

Gotta send them out ready.

They get the Chicago Manual and Strunk & White, our two holy texts, so they can have them on their desks in their new jobs (can't take state property obvs). And a proper fountain pen because I like fountain pens.

What better way to say "I love you" than with the Chicago Manual of Style

I send my outgoing clerks off each year with a copy of their own and have never given Valentine's gifts, but maybe this is the universe calling out.

David Byrne is from Arbutus, so Baltimore County, alas.

"The boys took a beating"

What's a hamate bone?
Do we even need the thing?
The wrist's appendix?

I would be pleased to be included. Thanks!