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AI for Lawyers Perplexity

Points to ponder…

  • Perplexity Token Issues: User frustration growing due to pricing; only three Pro searches daily for $20/month.
  • Competition Pressures: Early adopters migrating to alternatives like OpenAI and Claude due to limitations and costs.
  • Industry Pricing Shift: Rapid token usage changes affecting costs; companies exploring flat-rate pricing to stabilise expenses.
  • AI Training Resources: Google offers modular courses on

AI for Lawyers Perplexity

Perplexity excels at research-focused, citation-backed answers and live web search, making it stronger than many LLMs for fact-finding and up‑to‑date briefing.

Faster, verifiable legal research: Perplexity returns sourced summaries and links so attorneys can check authorities quickly. Multi‑model cross‑checking: it can surface results from several underlying models and web sources to reduce single-model hallucinations. Workflow

Scales of justice

A damning ruling by retired Justice Chris Jafta has been made against Limpopo Judge President Moletje George Phatudi.

Jafta, heading up a Judicial Conduct Committee inquiry, ruled that Phatudi should face a tribunal for abusing his judicial power. The charge carries the possibility of impeachment.

The matter will now be referred to the Judicial Service

The Future of the Legal Profession

The next chapter of law will favour those who can preserve judgment, absorb technology and demonstrate that legal is not merely a brake, but sometimes a steering mechanism.

The in-house legal department has long occupied an unusual position in corporate life – indispensable, faintly mysterious, and often invited into a conversation at precisely the point

Honor 600

HONOR South Africa today introduces the highly anticipated HONOR 600 Series, featuring the HONOR 600 Pro and HONOR 600, at Gallagher Convention Centre, Midrand, during an immersive launch event.

The new series brings together a flagship-level 200MP Ultra-Clear AI Night Camera, industry-exclusive AI Image to Video 2.0, a segment-leading 7,000mAh Long-life Battery and Snapdragon

Registrars Circular Deeds Office

Department: Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Republic of South Africa Applicable Registries: North West (Vryburg) and North Gauteng

1. Purpose

This circular outlines the change of jurisdictional areas, the transfer of records, and the registration of properties situated in the North West Province (within the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality).

Effective 01 June

ServaasDuPlessis

The suspension of Fannie Masemola has sent shockwaves through South Africa’s law enforcement establishment. But beyond the headlines, the case offers a deeper and more uncomfortable lesson: procurement fraud is not an anomaly – it is a systemic risk that can reach the highest levels of any organisation.

For leaders in risk, compliance, and governance,

Legal Agent Race

Claude is galloping ahead in their legal offerings, Microsoft has their Legal Agent for CoPilot Word and now it seems OpenAI is about to release their Legal offering. The speed that these new offerings are being released is making my head spin, how does a law firm know which horse to back? Imagine rolling out

Anthropic-Claude

Anthropic has launched “Claude for Legal”, marking its most definitive foray into the legal sector to date and intensifying competition but also coopetition between foundation model companies and specialist legal AI vendors.

At its core, Claude for Legal is an expanded legal-focused offering built around Anthropic’s Claude models and its “Cowork” agentic AI environment. The