Not if, but when: A judge on AI's arrival in California courts | Kabateck & Karnikian: Off the Record, Ep. 3

The LA Superior Court is the largest trial court in the nation, and it is testing whether generative AI can help it keep up. Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian sit down with Judge Lawrence Riff, supervising judge of the court's Civil Division, for the show's first guest interview. Riff walks through Learned Hand, the AI tool the court is developing under a one-year contract worth roughly $300,000, and pushes back on reports that LA judges are already using it to write orders. He explains how the tool hyperlinks every citation to its source and flags hallucinated or overstated case law, why research attorney capacity drives the delay between filing a motion and getting it heard, and why he sees AI as a complement to judges and clerks rather than a replacement for either.

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