[shabgzer]

That $1000+/hr apparently does not guarantee great proofreading. Already found two typos and am not even a quarter of the way through:

- Page 12: "wordrpess.org"

- Page 17: "fundamental principal"

[cdolan]

I used to care about this stuff and thought it meant my opponent was weak

Then you learn its not important and in fact its likely a red herring to make the defense think the plaintiff is careless

[pc86]

At first the idea that a $1000/hr associate planted a typo or two intentionally made me laugh but the more I think about it the more I think that's exactly what someone playing 4D chess with a lawsuit like this might do.

[shabgzer]

> I used to care about this stuff and thought it meant my opponent was weak

Me too, I'm no longer the grammar nazi I used to be. It still comes across as sloppy though.

> likely a red herring to make the defense think the plaintiff is careless

That's interesting!

[blitzar]

Do you put the typo next to the thing you want to hide to distract the opposition or do you put the typo miles away to draw their attention to something irrelevant?

[pclmulqdq]

Typos don't really matter in legal complaints, except for looking unprofessional. It would be a waste if my $1000/hour lawyer spent their time proofreading, honestly. The typos also guarantee that I'm getting a real, logical human writing my complaint rather than someone faking it with ChatGPT.

Typos in long-lived documents like contracts, patents, etc. matter quite a bit, by contrast. See eg the second amendment, where billions of dollars have been spent over a few commas.

[vasco]

What proofreading? Just click the spellcheck button.

[ec109685]

At least we know a human wrote it :)

[srmarm]

I'm always amazed at how many typos make it into legal docs that should be picked up by automatic spell checks. It seems to be a normal and accepted practice for legal types - interesting to see that's the case in the US as well as here in the UK.

[crummy]

that's how you can tell they didn't get chatGPT to write it

[blitzar]

You always add a few mistakes when you copy someone elese homework - no different with copying from chatGPT.