{"id":161298,"date":"2026-08-23T15:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/23\/chatgpt-experts-700-million-law-firms-and-frat-house-felonies-see-generally\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T15:44:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T23:44:35","slug":"chatgpt-experts-700-million-law-firms-and-frat-house-felonies-see-generally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/23\/chatgpt-experts-700-million-law-firms-and-frat-house-felonies-see-generally\/","title":{"rendered":"ChatGPT Experts, $700 Million Law Firms, And Frat House Felonies \u2014 See Generally"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expertly Flawed:<\/strong> An expert witness collected $90,000 from 3M to ask ChatGPT, \u201cshow how 3M is 0% at fault.\u201d Plaintiffs\u2019 counsel turned the resulting 350-page prompt log into the deposition of a lifetime.<\/a><\/p>\n

Barbarians Inside The Gate:<\/strong> Wood Smith Henning & Berman reportedly signed a letter of intent to sell a stake to Charlesbank Capital Partners at a roughly $700 million valuation, which would make it the largest private equity investment in an American law firm\u2026 so far.<\/a><\/p>\n

Indisputably Disputed:<\/strong> The DOJ told a court there\u2019s \u201cno serious dispute\u201d that \u201c86 47\u201d means a threat, even though everyone outside the White House orbit seriously disputes exactly that.<\/a><\/p>\n

Run For Your Licenses:<\/strong> A whistleblower disclosure sent to Congress describes DOJ civil rights attorneys leaving the antisemitism task force because staying might cost them their law licenses.<\/a><\/p>\n

Like Father, Like Son\u2026 Allegedly:<\/strong> A prominent Pittsburgh product liability lawyer was charged alongside his son in an alleged cocaine trafficking operation run out of Penn State fraternity houses.<\/a> The son has since lost his $188,000 law school scholarship over it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Group Chat Privileges Revoked:<\/strong> A UK barrister was disbarred after WhatsApp messages saying a former employee belonged in a \u201cmental asylum\u201d with \u201crestraints lol,\u201d conduct an employment tribunal had already found amounted to harassment.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Piece Of Me Practice:<\/strong> Greenberg Traurig\u2019s Mathew Rosengart has become the go-to litigator for Britney Spears, FKA twigs, and now Selena Gomez, who tapped him to defend the fraud suit over her mental-health startup Wondermind.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Bow Too Far?:<\/strong> Legal commentators are split on whether the Lindsay Clancy prosecutor\u2019s daily hair bows are a tribute to one of the young victims or a courtroom optics problem headed for an appellate brief.<\/a><\/p>\n

The post ChatGPT Experts, $700 Million Law Firms, And Frat House Felonies \u2014 See Generally<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Expertly Flawed:<\/strong> An expert witness collected $90,000 from 3M to ask ChatGPT, \u201cshow how 3M is 0% at fault.\u201d Plaintiffs\u2019 counsel turned the resulting 350-page prompt log into the deposition of a lifetime.<\/a><\/p>\n

Barbarians Inside The Gate:<\/strong> Wood Smith Henning & Berman reportedly signed a letter of intent to sell a stake to Charlesbank Capital Partners at a roughly $700 million valuation, which would make it the largest private equity investment in an American law firm\u2026 so far.<\/a><\/p>\n

Indisputably Disputed:<\/strong> The DOJ told a court there\u2019s \u201cno serious dispute\u201d that \u201c86 47\u201d means a threat, even though everyone outside the White House orbit seriously disputes exactly that.<\/a><\/p>\n

Run For Your Licenses:<\/strong> A whistleblower disclosure sent to Congress describes DOJ civil rights attorneys leaving the antisemitism task force because staying might cost them their law licenses.<\/a><\/p>\n

Like Father, Like Son\u2026 Allegedly:<\/strong> A prominent Pittsburgh product liability lawyer was charged alongside his son in an alleged cocaine trafficking operation run out of Penn State fraternity houses.<\/a> The son has since lost his $188,000 law school scholarship over it.<\/a><\/p>\n

Group Chat Privileges Revoked:<\/strong> A UK barrister was disbarred after WhatsApp messages saying a former employee belonged in a \u201cmental asylum\u201d with \u201crestraints lol,\u201d conduct an employment tribunal had already found amounted to harassment.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Piece Of Me Practice:<\/strong> Greenberg Traurig\u2019s Mathew Rosengart has become the go-to litigator for Britney Spears, FKA twigs, and now Selena Gomez, who tapped him to defend the fraud suit over her mental-health startup Wondermind.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Bow Too Far?:<\/strong> Legal commentators are split on whether the Lindsay Clancy prosecutor\u2019s daily hair bows are a tribute to one of the young victims or a courtroom optics problem headed for an appellate brief.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Expertly Flawed: An expert witness collected $90,000 from 3M to ask ChatGPT, \u201cshow how 3M is 0% at fault.\u201d Plaintiffs\u2019 counsel turned the resulting 350-page prompt log into the deposition of a lifetime. Barbarians Inside The Gate: Wood Smith Henning & Berman reportedly signed a letter of intent to sell a stake to Charlesbank Capital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-667311229-rdK7x4.jpg?fit=724%2C483&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}