> OMG. This is the Chat-GPT lawyer. You learn what F.3d means in first year legal writing. To non-lawyers, this is a tiny bit like someone being asked "You know what the DOJ is, right" and getting something wild like "Directorate of Judges" as a response.
The correct meaning of "F.3d" is "Federal Reporter, 3rd Series".
And it is like a lawyer's worst nightmare to have an exchange with a judge like this:
> Judge Castel: Have you heard of the Federal Reporter?
> Schwartz: Yes.
> Judge Castel: That's a book, right?
> Schwartz: Correct.
The implication being that at bare minimum, the lawyer could have looked it up in a book. Like a first year law student would.
https://twitter.com/innercitypress/status/166683852676213965... is worth reading in full.
I am not a lawyer, but I was cringing throughout.
For non-lawyers (like me), I found it helpful to check out the quote tweets.
For example, to explain how much of a cringe was "F.3d" - https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/16668536501095424...
> OMG. This is the Chat-GPT lawyer. You learn what F.3d means in first year legal writing. To non-lawyers, this is a tiny bit like someone being asked "You know what the DOJ is, right" and getting something wild like "Directorate of Judges" as a response.
The correct meaning of "F.3d" is "Federal Reporter, 3rd Series".
And it is like a lawyer's worst nightmare to have an exchange with a judge like this:
> Judge Castel: Have you heard of the Federal Reporter?
> Schwartz: Yes.
> Judge Castel: That's a book, right?
> Schwartz: Correct.
The implication being that at bare minimum, the lawyer could have looked it up in a book. Like a first year law student would.