It
was
Legalweek
last
week,
and
we
discuss
the
big
happenings
from
the
show
—
which
is
pretty
much
all
AI
talk
—
but
while
we
saw
splashy
product
announcements
about
the
future
of
working
as
a
lawyer
within
an
AI-enhanced
workflow,
an
assistant
U.S.
Attorney
got
bounced
from
the
job
for
letting
AI
run
too
much
of
the
workflow.
But
the
most
imaginative
large
language
models
wouldn’t
have
predicted
opening
a
federal
judicial
opinion
with
the
phrase
“swinging
dicks.”
That
takes
a
special
level
of
deranged
that’s
pure
Judge
Lawrence
VanDyke.
The
certified
non-qualified
occupant
of
a
Ninth
Circuit
seat
kicked
off
an
official
taxpayer
funded
rant
about
wokeness
framed
as
vulgar
trolling
to
appeal
to
the
White
House.
His
colleagues
—
most
of
them
anyway
—
issued
a
plea
for
decorum,
that
went
basically
nowhere.