Your Lawyer is Worse Than You Think

Today, we're open-sourcing and releasing a simple LLM-based app that flags obvious mistakes your lawyers made while drafting your contracts. In our many years in legal tech and practice, we've seen countless, embarrassing mistakes made by lawyers. Most of the time these mistakes are not consequential, like simple typos. But occasionally they can be career-ending (like putting a decimal point in the wrong place). Our tool flags simple errors for you and lets you do a basic check on the work product from your lawyer.

We think non-lawyers will be very surprised at how common errors are, even in documents that cost you tens of thousands to draft.

Hold on to your pearls for a moment. Our tool is called Find The Fuck Up. When you see the kinds of mistakes your lawyers made in your legal documents, you'll excuse the profanity.

It's our experience that lawyers don't make typos because they are bad lawyers. We think typos are actually a sign of just how human the legal drafting process currently is at most law firms. Humans are great at reasoning and bad at copy/paste and proofreading. We think the more important issue is that typos in work product are a clear sign that your lawyers have failed to adopt AI tooling into their workflows. The kinds of mistakes we catch at findthefuckup.com are the kinds of mistakes AI doesn't make (e.g. typos).

There's a whole other category of errors in legal drafting that get made by AI but that many lawyers don't make. Current AI isn't ready for unassisted drafting, but it is a powerful accelerant in the hands of good lawyers. We built General Legal because we don't think lawyers are adopting AI with sufficient urgency, and we think the right approach to legal is hybrid human-AI. We believe that well-trained human lawyers and AI in collaboration produce far better work product.

We're cataloguing errors discovered by users (without calling anyone out!) in our gallery.