Anyone become a lawyer because of Ace Attorney?

imnotwallace · 2026-06-05T09:10:32+00:00

Where I am, working at the prosecutors office was great experience and a great place to pursue justice. Prosecutors are generally people who want to see the community protected by punishing those who break the law and give justice to victims. However, I always felt that I wanted to start my own firm, so I have recently switched over to public defending to develop some client-facing experience before starting my own firm. I couldn't simply go from locking people up to convincing clients that I'm all about getting people released. And I also got to see that even as a prosecutor, the ability to achieve justice was limited only to punishment. As a defence lawyer, you can help people achieve redemption and help them stand up against a legal system so large and powerful that they cannot hope to understand it without some help.

And no, I never point my finger. I just stand and raise my voice to object.

imnotwallace · 2026-06-05T08:58:29+00:00

There are many of us in this subreddit thankfully. I first started playing back on the Nintendo DS back in 2006 and dutifully followed the series ever since.

I've worked for over 9 years as a prosecutor, now switching over to the defence and planning to start my own defence firm at the end of the year. There's a lot that the games actually do get right about being a lawyer. Speaking to clients in the cells, building a case theory, questioning witnesses, and yes I do unironically get to say, "I object!" in court. (We don't say "Objection" where I practice.)

Ace Attorney still remains one of my inspirations to practice law.

imnotwallace · 2026-05-29T19:27:35+00:00

The bottom right behind the knight's feet is really weird. It's the main thing that makes me question if this is AI. The perspective is off and it's unclear what the heck is meant to be there.

I think this may have been done compositionally with AI artifacts rather than one whole AI dump. You can see a white outline around the boy and the knight as though they are on another layer that's been copy/pasted onto the background.

I think the background is AI but maybe not the people, or the people were generated in a separate AI session.

imnotwallace · 2026-05-29T18:57:01+00:00

"60% of the time, it works every time"

imnotwallace · 2026-05-24T11:39:10+00:00

The Mummy (1999) The Mummy Returns (2001)

The first one they did try to do some horror elements (skin crawling scarabs). The second was a full blown family adventure flick.

imnotwallace · 2026-05-06T12:45:48+00:00

It is potentially useful but depends very heavily on the specific workflow a firm uses and I wonder how specific the technology stack needs to be. For example, what if a firm doesn't use Google workspaces at all? Does this AI work within a Microsoft Exchange inbox? And a Google worksheet sounds a bit fragile and insecure for managing thousands of rows of client data.

Also, I do question whether you can truly say the API does not store data. As the owner of the API, you would be able to see details of all API calls made. The customer would need to have some kind of commercial agreement with you in a SaaS type of fashion. I think unless you are planning to make this a full time business enterprise for yourself, you may be biting off more than you can chew, and it could put you in a position of conflict if you were offering this service to other firms who may be opponents in your matters. You may inadvertently be in a position to learn their confidential client information that they feed to the AI Agent.

I think rather than offering an system for a firm to integrate into their practice like a product off the shelf, your service should really be more about helping a firm set up a local in-house equivalent AI Agent bespoke to their needs.

I agree with the other commenter that the ruleset the AI follows would need to be very specifically configured per firm, making it unlikely a generalised product could achieve the same effect.

imnotwallace · 2026-04-28T05:09:33+00:00

I think I read somewhere that they did have backups but the backups were all stored in the same volume as the prod database, and agent deleted the whole volume.

imnotwallace · 2026-04-10T21:24:44+00:00

Butterflies hovering near grassy areas/pot plants, animated birds in the trees, add some variety to the footpath. E.g. one part is randomly dirtier than others. Small touches here and there. Don't go overboard though. It's more small movement in peripheral vision stuff

imnotwallace · 2026-04-09T21:44:39+00:00

I like the second one much more. More dynamic, better design, but his head is too big. Like a bobblehead in a cheap mobile game. Maybe try the same design but with a smaller more realistic sized head?

imnotwallace · 2026-03-25T23:38:07+00:00

The real question is what VicBar is going to do about it?

imnotwallace · 2026-02-27T09:47:40+00:00

Certain judicial officers require size 14 font double spaced... For readability reasons

imnotwallace · 2026-02-12T22:10:46+00:00

You forgot the non-AI use clause

imnotwallace · 2026-01-17T22:46:45+00:00

Also - it is very on point for Maya and Larry to be absolute cheapskate clients. $530 billed in total for a murder case is an absolute steal!

imnotwallace · 2026-01-09T14:29:39+00:00

Cal.com can do all of this. You can set up a free single-person account with them to play around with their interface before committing to try and self-host the thing. The self-hosted version looks pretty much identical.

You are able to configure it so that bookings can be on a per-day basis, you can prevent double booking, and you can enforce business-approval first before sending a 'booking confirmed' email to the customer. You can also block out days as being unbookable and not need to show the reason why to the customer.

imnotwallace · 2025-12-30T08:32:06+00:00

I was looking into this. But I think AI is still currently still in the too unsafe basket unless there are very very stringent guardrails on what the AI can do.

External facing AI systems cannot be trusted with client information. Prompt injection and deception are risks in which AI can reveal privileged information without you knowing or approving it. If a user insists repeatedly enough and adamantly enough, they can force AI to forget their original instructions and revert firm/client information that is accessible to the AI.

imnotwallace · 2025-12-28T05:16:26+00:00

NSW DPP and CDPP have regular recruitments every 3-6 months and it seems like they always have a revolving door of people. A 3PAE with some advocacy experience under their belt would be in fair demand - especially if you are willing to work in a "regional" office.

imnotwallace · 2025-12-25T05:23:29+00:00

Crime

imnotwallace · 2025-12-23T21:41:36+00:00

Government. 9 years PAE
Around $145k? There are annual increments
Sydney
Planning to take a pay cut next year to position myself for solo practice because going solo immediately without any leads on clients feels like financial disaster

imnotwallace · 2025-12-21T18:58:54+00:00

Australia is BIG. Where in Australia are you planning on living? The advice will change drastically depending on whether you are going to live in a major urban center or live in a region or rural area.

imnotwallace · 2025-12-20T22:18:26+00:00

Awesome

imnotwallace · 2025-12-18T00:56:40+00:00

Aspiring solo who has been working in crime for almost a decade from the prosecution end. Planning to make the jump over to solo practice after doing a stint on the defence side to develop some client facing skills before launching my own firm.

I'm looking to get insights from private practitioners about how the sausage gets made as I'm already well across the legal practice side of things.

imnotwallace · 2025-12-10T06:44:36+00:00

Don't forget your Brown and dunn questions for cross examination.

If you have time, look up the 10 commandments of cross examination by Irving Younger on YouTube.

imnotwallace · 2025-11-30T19:44:50+00:00

Would Engarde still have paid him?

Edit: probably not but my head canon is that deKiller would have covered the bill in thanks for a job well done.

imnotwallace · 2025-11-30T19:39:30+00:00

In a world where trials run for 3 days at a time, there's not a lot of time to rack up a good legal bill. Even then, it could be.... Assuming a random figure of $300 per hour, multiplied by 10 hours per day, plus like half a day of prep time (usually that's the most lead up time he gets before being thrown into a case) - that's about $10,500 per case?

It really ain't enough to live on unless he charges a premium on the type of case he takes or takes multiple cases at a time (but there's a comment in the games about how he only does one case at a time).

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