Anyone now welcome for appointments!

Regardless of your situation, we have many appointment options available. Remote appointments are available for anyone. If you prefer a remote appointment, we are happy to assist you by telephone, zoom, skype, or any other online option that works for you.

Office appointments are available for anyone. Unvaccinated individuals coming into the office for an appointment, will be required to wear a mask.

Staff are wearing masks when outside of personal work space. If you would like an outside appointment, we are happy to accommodate. We are here for you and want you to be comfortable.

Inside appointments now available for all. Covid safety protocols are in place and all office staff are vaccinated.
Ed Shaw Law No Nonsense Legal Advice

Local Solutions For Local Problems

A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE CAN BE A DANGEROUS THING

by | Dec 18, 2023 | General Law |

Sometimes knowing a little can be worse than knowing nothing, that is absolutely true for the legal world. There are many tools available for us to find out a little about a lot of things, how to wire your house, medicine, and the law. In the legal world one can find on the internet information about most legal concepts. With Chat GPT you can even create legal documents. This seems like a great thing, we can do everything ourselves without hiring anyone.

The problem, what we get online is usually mostly correct, but almost never 100% right.  It is ironic that the information is most useful for those who are already experts in the field, electricians can look up diagrams for wiring, doctors can find information on unusual diseases, lawyers can research unique legal issues. If you already know the work, you can tell when what the computer has is wrong. If you are getting information about something you do not know about you will not know when it is wrong. If the info is 100% correct you are good to go, but that does not always happen. I have seen some pretty embarrassing incidents where someone used something they found online that was wrong and really got in trouble.

Bottom line, look things up online, do your research, but be careful, just because it is on the screen does not mean that it is true.

Ed

Archives

RSS Feed