{"id":62695,"date":"2026-01-06T23:23:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62695"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T04:23:48","slug":"wsj-how-judges-are-using-ai-to-help-decide-your-legal-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=62695","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WSJ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/ai\/how-ai-could-help-decide-your-next-legal-dispute-9cb12517?st=UJx3Db&amp;reflink=article_copyURL_share\">How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute<\/a> by Erin Mulvaney (\u201cThe technology is helping summarize legal filings, prepare for hearings and map out decisions\u201d):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Federal judge Xavier Rodriguez uses artificial intelligence to help manage a daunting case backlog in his San Antonio courtroom, deploying it to summarize legal filings, decipher the facts, and write questions to lob at lawyers during hearings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AI has a somewhat dubious reputation in the legal world, where lawyers in recent months have drawn ridicule and reprimand for submitting briefs riddled with citations to fictional cases and factual errors. Judges, whose decisions carry grave power to reshape people\u2019s lives, have served more frequently as referees of the technology than early adopters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a growing contingent of judges are increasingly embracing AI to help them draft opinions, analyze court filings and quickly conduct legal research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe cat is out of the bag,\u201d said Rodriguez, who says he still always makes the final decision in cases himself. \u201cWe need to be heading into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ: How Judges Are Using AI to Help Decide Your Legal Dispute by Erin Mulvaney (\u201cThe technology is helping summarize legal filings, prepare for hearings and map out decisions\u201d):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62696,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62695\/revisions\/62696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}