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Chantal McNaught 😸

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PhD candidate in law - helping lawyers navigate the conflicts between law as a profession and law as a business with ethics | #legaltech | #law | #ai

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Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Nov 18

👋 Kia ora, I’m Chantal. I’m an Aussie based in Auckland, New Zealand. I’m also a PhD candidate doing a thesis on how lawyers can navigate conflicts between law as a profession and law as a business. Here’s a thread about me 1/7
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Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · 1h

This is what happens when they get rid of humanities and forget to insert it into the STEM disciplines. No ethics at all (because they need humanities for that)

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Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · 3d

This is what sparked this thought: techcrunch.com/2025/10/10/s...

Salesforce CEO says National Guard should patrol San Francisco -- stunning his own PR team | TechCrunch

Though Benioff's shift mirrors Silicon Valley's broader accommodation of Trump, the exchange offered a rare glimpse of just how far that repositioning can go. The question now: will other Bay Area tec...

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Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · 3d

I have this worrying feeling that AI is going to be the tool of this new generation of fascism. I hope I’m being ridiculous

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · 6d

“I now believe that balancing the benefits and threats of artificial intelligence — saving humanity with and from AI — is the defining challenge of our age.” Richard Susskind in ‘How To Think About AI’ at 14. #LawSky

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 18d

There is absolutely no good faith reason to use the term “AI” for any technology one is selling.

It serves only for dazzling people into thinking the technology has capabilities that it doesn’t.

If one wants a technology to be trustworthy, just use a transparent, informative term without hype.

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Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · 28d

Barbara Mescher in “Legal ethics for lawyers: a new model” at 19, quoting Ysaiah Ross in “Ethics in Law: Lawyers responsibility and accountability in Australia.

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · 28d

“Expertise, is a core professional ideal leading to monopoly power where professions ‘exercise economic power and control over the market for their services.’” #lawsky

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Sep 8

From all the accounts of ChatGPT-5, it’s giving Wild E Coyote. Its professionalism at pretending to be human, including pretending to do the tasks no one wants to do is *chef’s kiss* #chatGPT

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Sep 7

“Future legal education must bridge the gap between traditional legal theory and practical market dynamics to prepare attorneys who can effectively navigate through modern legal challenges.” Jelena Schidzig in “the Law Firm of 2030: how the future law firm might look” p34-5 #law

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s an application for bail. He’s in remand

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Sep 2

It’s only effective automation if it comes from the automation region of France. Otherwise, it’s just sparkling legaltech for legaltech sake. #law

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 24

“Great legal technology will assist lawyers in exercising their skilled human judgement” - Douglas O Linder and Nancy Levit quoting Blake Masters in “The Good Lawyer” (2014 Oxford University Press)
#law

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 12

At 184 in The Enterprising Barrister: Organisation, Culture and Changing Professionalism (2020, Bloomsbury Publishing) by Atalanta Goulandris

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 12

“The Bar is now a competitive business and its practitioners are selling their services. Whilst training, credentials and expertise persist as recognisable features of traditional professionalism, much more is required of Barrister these days.”

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 10

Susan Fortney and Tahlia Gordon quoting Professor Ted Schneyer in Adopting Law Firm Management Systems to Survive and Thrive: A Study of the Australian Approach to Management-Based Regulation (2013) Legal Studies Research Paper No 13-02

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 10

‘“Ethical infrastructures consist of the policies, procedures, systems and structures - in short, the ‘measures’ that ensure lawyers in their firms comply with their ethical duties and that non-lawyers associated with the firm behave in a manner consistent with the lawyers’ duties”’ #law

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 8

“Remember when AI couldn’t count how many Rs there are in strawberry? That was eight months ago”

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · Aug 7

Worth reading what GPT-5 wrote in the intro to my new post when asked to do something dramatic.

The second image explains the tricks it used. open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 5

Filing in “AI commentary that has not aged well”

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Aug 5

“In addition to being less susceptible to various kinds of biases, machines do not suffer from other problems affecting Human lawyers exercising such judgment”
- Benjamin Alarie, Anthony Niblett, & Albert Yoon ‘How Artificial Intelligence Will Affect the practice of Law’ (2017) #law #legalAI

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Jul 30

I also acknowledge that it’s highly unlikely to be a singular cause, either. These macro shifts often have multiple converging factors

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Jul 30

I’m not suggesting a direct cause. It’s indirect - fewer people is one thing. But those that have been left to survive plus the well documented “bachelor bust” that has been brewing in China the last 30 years may mean that there are fewer couples to even consider having children.

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Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Jul 30

Could this have had anything to do with the massive death toll which occurred 4-5 years ago? 🤔

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Jul 29

Charlotte Kronblad, Johanna E Pregmark, & Rita Berggren ‘Difficulties to Digitize: Ambidexterity Challenges in Law Firms’ (2023) 33(2)Journal of Service Theory and Practice 217 at 226

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Jul 29

“The overwhelming barrier to change is that their [law firms] entire business model is based on the hour. All of it; how you evaluate lawyers, how you measure profitability, how you measure everything. It is all in the hours” #law

Chantal McNaught 😸 @ckmcnaughty.bsky.social · Jul 28

“Business—is not the enemy of lawyers but an important tool to implement our service profession” Judith A McMorrow in ‘In Defense of the Business of Law’ (2012) 40(1) Fordham Urban Law Journal 459, 461 #law