Me. After spending $250,000 on incompetent lawyers in my divorce case who have a natural conflict of interest and who get paid by the hour to do poor work, I went to pro se and used ChatGPT to represent myself. I went up against 3 lawyers and held my own. When opposing counsel realized that I knew state statutes, civil procedure, and rules of evidence, they started negotiating and lowered their settlement demand by 50%, saving me over $800,000. It took 9 months of long hours of research, reading civil procedure and statutes, but ChatGPT was the catalyst. It helped me formulate strategies and evaluate options, drafted cross-examination questions, and reviewed documents for inconsistencies. It was an equalizer.
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- ChatGPT
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- Hacker News ↗
- Published
- 2025-10
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- 2026-09-06