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AI for Paralegals Quiz
Tests AI in paralegal work: hallucinated and misgrounded citations after Mata v. Avianca, technology-assisted review metrics, and duties of supervision and confidentiality.
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What happened in Mata v. Avianca (2023)?
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- What happened in Mata v. Avianca (2023)?
- A court banned all AI tools in legal practice
- Lawyers filed a brief citing cases ChatGPT had invented and were sanctioned
- A paralegal was licensed to practice law using AI
- A court first approved predictive coding
- What is a misgrounded citation?
- A citation with a typo in the page number only
- A citation to a statute instead of a case
- A real case cited for a proposition it does not support
- A case that has been published in two reporters
- Why can legal-specific AI tools that use retrieval still produce errors?
- Retrieval may miss the controlling authority or the model may misread a passage
- They only work on handwritten documents
- They are legally barred from quoting cases
- Retrieval tools never use language models
- In technology-assisted review, what does recall measure?
- How quickly the review finishes
- The share of documents marked relevant that truly are relevant
- How many attorneys worked on the case
- The share of all relevant documents that the process found
- What is the purpose of running citations through a citator such as KeyCite or Shepard's?
- To translate cases into plain English
- To check whether a case is still good law
- To generate new arguments automatically
- To format the brief for e-filing
- Why is pasting client documents into a consumer chatbot risky?
- It can breach client confidentiality obligations
- Chatbots cannot read legal documents
- It automatically files the documents with the court
- It makes the documents inadmissible in every state
- What does an elusion test in document review estimate?
- How many privileged documents were produced
- How long the review will take
- How many relevant documents were missed among those the system marked non-relevant
- Whether opposing counsel used AI
- According to the guide, how is the paralegal role changing with AI?
- It is being replaced entirely by chatbots
- Paralegals no longer need attorney supervision
- Paralegals now mainly do data entry
- Less time on first-pass work, more on quality control, validation and citation verification
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