Scott Frost shares his insights from our newsletter:
ChatGPT can write your kid’s book report.
It cannot make your kid read the book.
The report may be passable. But your kid still has no idea what happened in chapter four.
I use AI regularly, so this isn’t an anti-AI rant.
It’s a great tool.
But getting the answer and understanding the answer are not the same thing.
I watched a lawyer demonstrate that pretty spectacularly in a California trial.
He was using what’s known as the suitcase argument.
The argument goes like this:
Someone comes to you with a suitcase containing $5 million.
It’s yours, with one condition:
You have to be permanently injured to get it.
Would you take the deal?
A lot of people wouldn’t. Our health is priceless.
I’ve seen trial lawyer Nick Rowley use this argument incredibly effectively.
But when the lawyer I watched in that California trial tried essentially the same thing…
He got slammed down.
The injuries in his case didn’t justify the framing. And more importantly, he hadn’t built the evidence he needed to support it.
He’d copied the argument without understanding why it worked.
That’s important for lawyers to understand.
But I think it’s important for clients to understand, too.
When you hire a lawyer, you’re not just hiring someone with a collection of good arguments.
You’re trusting them to understand your case well enough to know which argument fits, when to make it, and when not to make it at all.
Because AI is making the copying part easier than ever.
It can give you arguments. Strategies. Answers.
What it can’t give you is the experience and mentorship that teach you what to do with them.
You can memorize the words.
But you can’t copy the judgment behind them.
— Scott Frost
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