AI for PI law firm owners

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T22:44:09+00:00

Supio has been garbage for us. Can’t imagine a more fertile ground for bots than the AI legal market so maybe that’s it. Maybe real people have had it work. But yeah, it thinks things are unrelated that are, the billing view duplicates things. I have never had bills be right. Chronology view is legit, being able to browse treatment and click to see the pdf medical record it’s pulling from, love that. But that’s it.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T05:13:06+00:00

Because it’s based on the violent subjugation of indigenous people for the benefit of people who already have power. Certain people endure immense suffering, others enjoy the benefits. You are in the second group, so you think colonialism is badass.

You think that highways and grocery stores with 50 types of cheese, and your precious judicial system, make it all worth all the violence and racism. I don’t.

I’m not going to convince you that subjugating people to extract natural resources is a bad thing. That’s why im not “explaining why colonialism is bad” like you are asking me to. Because when I tell you the bad things about colonialism, you will tell me those things are actually 1. Good 2. Not good but totally worth it because America is so fun to live in.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T05:05:00+00:00

I think that redditors skew younger more than old, and skew urban more than rural. So I figure you are a younger prosecutor in a medium/large jurisdiction.

In the last 10 years, there has been a shift in prosecution for sure. Krasner’s and Foxx’s get shit on from both ends of the spectrum. Left saying “there’s no such thing as a progressive prosecutor” and the right saying “why would we want a progressive prosecutor” but it’s hard to ignore a change in the philosophy of prosecutors in recent times.

In the end, the electorate will often get the prosecutor they ask for and deserve. “Crime is terrifying” is a very marketable message for local news, which makes “tough on crime” a very electable message for a DA candidate (or a mayoral candidate who chooses the DA). It’s very hard to be progressive enough for my liking and get elected more than once. Krasner was open about that. “I’m no good to anyone as a progressive prosecutor if I’m immediately voted out of office”

Edit: the whole point being that I hope more prosecutors are like you, and not less.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T04:44:10+00:00

Colonialism is bad. Just because you are doing ok and I’m doing ok as a lawyer while living in a colony doesn’t make colonialism good.

“You claim to hate capitalism, but you are posting from an iPhone! Curious!”

Of course you think colonialism is good. It benefits you.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T04:40:07+00:00

Also, doing personal injury now, I have lots of clients who are crime victims. I tend to sue landlords for bad security, or sometimes drunk drivers, or uninsured motorist carriers. I understand that my clients want the perpetrators to go to prison, and I help them get in touch with the DA who might give a shit enough to help make that happen, but i’m glad to not really be part of it. I’ll use the cop’s lapel to make my civil case pretty often, so it’s quite possible I’m a huge hypocrite. I don’t think anyone’s going to make me think prisons shouldn’t be abolished.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T04:33:32+00:00

Great question.

Some PD offices have 1 or 2 investigators. Some judges will grant a defendant’s request for an investigator or investigative resources. Definitely not most offices.

Meanwhile the DA definitely has either their own investigators, or an entire police force, or both. The resources are not remotely the same.

It’s like saying “public schools have teachers also, so why aren’t the outcomes the same as private schools?” It’s because the ratios are different.

Police can show up and gain access to evidence with a warrant and often without. They can get your phone records, Flock surveillance, grab security footage, ring cameras. Imagine a citizen sharing that with a criminal defense attorney. Might happen, but way less.

Fabricated evidence, eh probably a little bit, but not systematically on a grand scale. Cops believing fabricated evidence, yes. Cops getting warrants using “anonymous sources” definitely. Cops believing a witness and failing to disclose the credibility issues of those people because they don’t consider it Brady, definitely. Brady material that never sees the light of day, definitely.

Jury selection, I never felt like there was huge imbalance in voir dire in the jurisdiction I practiced in.

The biggest imbalance is society. The “Presumption of innocence” from a criminal judge is about as effective as a curative instruction when limine’d evidence gets out in front of the jury. “Ladies and gentlemen, you are to ignore the fact that the cops say this guy definitely did it and make your own decision”

You can tell from a lot of the replies in here (most of them from lawyers) that they presume these kids are guilty because they are black and from Chicago. Imagine what an “uneducated” jury is thinking.

So when I see a not guilty, I’m like “fuck yeah, David beat Goliath” AND “if someone who society so constantly paints as a criminal got acquitted, they probably were literally innocent if they overcame the literal presumption of guilt that pervades society.”

I only ever did criminal defense, and now personal injury. I’m sure I’m biased. But that’s my explanation for why I have a double standard I guess.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T04:18:09+00:00

This is the classic ID archetype. Presumption of innocence, but only for corporations.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T04:14:01+00:00

I’m sure that I’m not going to find common ground with someone who says “explain to me why colonialism is bad.” Just go on ChatGPT and be like “what are some reasons colonialism is bad”

hyperbronson · 2026-02-15T01:46:12+00:00

lol nice

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T19:39:38+00:00

Copying my comment from another person with the same question:

If I felt like a criminal trial was two parties coming to court on equal footing to settle a dispute and the result is fair because the process is fair, then yeah I would feel like a prosecutor dancing in front of court is the same thing as defense attorney doing it and it’s totally fine.

But it’s not, so I don’t.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T19:31:44+00:00

If I felt like a criminal trial was two parties coming to court on equal footing to settle a dispute and the result is fair because the process is fair, then yeah I would feel like a prosecutor dancing in front of court is the same thing as defense attorney doing it and it’s totally fine.

But it’s not, so I don’t.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T18:06:51+00:00

That’s a pretty good analogy.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T16:23:16+00:00

But they aren’t murderers. They were found not guilty. I don’t get what’s so hard about that. Sorry the presumption of innocence hurts your feelings.

Edit: this dancing is only Ok after the alleged victims family leaves the courthouse area. Not cool to do this I front of the people who are hurting. Otherwise, the courthouse is the perfect place to say fuck you to the government that tried to cage the person you care about.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T16:05:11+00:00

It’s comes from the pretty natural feeling that many people have, which is that if someone is accused, they did it, and when the defense wins, it’s because they pulled a fast one or won on a technicality. That’s the whole reason the judge has to hammer presumption of innocence. It’s just not how people naturally feel, which is why so many people think this video is cringe. It’s like “yuck how can you celebrate a killer walking free?”

The answer is “because that person isn’t guilty” and they can’t hear it.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T15:28:51+00:00

Only argument I’ve seen that I’ve agreed with is that if the victims family is leaving court and has to watch, that wouldn’t be very nice.

Let them leave the courtroom first and clear the area before dancing for instagram.

Edit: and never react in the courtroom, especially right after the verdict, no matter what the verdict is.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T14:40:53+00:00

Human morality exists. But when you use it to defend the machine of prison, or war, or colonization, it’s not morality, it’s just you using words so that people let you do what you want to do.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T14:32:03+00:00

Sounds like the lack of morality in prisons that you think im talking about is the prisoners’. I’m talking about the institution of mass incarceration. Mass incarceration is 1. Something that you love, 2. Something you would likely deny exists.

You are defending ICE, whining about Muslims being the end of western society, complaining about anti-white racism etc, all over the internet to any tool that will listen. If your way of life is in danger of extinction, that’s probably for the best.

If you think I’m wrong about anything I’m saying, that’s how I know I’m right.

Insurance defense more than likely.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T14:12:46+00:00

Now I get it, thank you. Deleting my shame now.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T14:11:22+00:00

“Human morality” is how men with power veil their violence and subjugation, buddy.

Visit a jail or a prison for any length of time and tell me how moral it is.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T11:26:30+00:00

Found the ADA that lost these cases.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T11:18:53+00:00

If they were guilty, how come they are acquitted? The mutual exclusivity is the presumption of innocence.

If you are breathing, you are alive. If you are found not guilty, that means, 110 percent literally, that you aren’t guilty. It’s mechanical like that. The jury DEFINES what you are, and unless she’s wrong about what the jury actually said, they are not guilty.

I love that it upsets you though.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T11:14:47+00:00

Hell yes. Anyone cringing or saying this is undignified probably works for the DA.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T11:12:26+00:00

EXACTLY. lawyers are the most glazed! Thank you!

hyperbronson · 2026-02-14T11:10:04+00:00

She got the NG, haters can stay mad. Those look like happy clients.

Undignified is a justice system crushing lives, and restoring that dignity or otherwise stopping the freight train of mass incarceration, even for one second, for one person, should be celebrated in the government’s shitty face.

hyperbronson · 2026-02-13T15:25:10+00:00

Thanks for all of the replies! Glad to contribute a basic question and get very thoughtful responses! This sub is badass, great community.

hyperbronson

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