AI Helps Self-Represented Litigants Argue Cases, Including an Australian Win

In Australia, computing academic Greg Baker used AI to challenge his employer's refusal to make his casual job permanent, and the Fair Work Commission ruled in his favor.

In England and Wales, 60% of defendants in defended county court claims this year had no lawyer, and in the US more than nine in ten consumers sued for debt face cases without one.

Around 0.6% of all Claude use in May was for lawyers' tasks, with four-fifths of those queries from people asking about their rights or what the law means.