The Fastest Way to Lose a Court Case? Use ChatGPT Burnout and heavy workloads are driving lawyers to AI—and into trouble The Walrus · Jul 18, 2024
Humiliated lawyers fined $5,000 for submitting ChatGPT hallucinations in court: ‘I heard about this new site, which I falsely assumed was, like, a super search engine’ The judge scolded the lawyers for doubling down on their fake citations. Fortune · Jun 23, 2023
Two US lawyers fined for submitting fake court citations from ChatGPT Law firm also penalised after chatbot invented six legal cases that were then used in an aviation injury claim The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2023
Lawyers submitted bogus case law created by ChatGPT. A judge fined them $5,000 A federal judge has imposed $5,000 fines on a group of lawyers after ChatGPT was blamed for their submission of fictitious legal research to support an aviation injury claim The Independent UK · Jun 22, 2023
Sanctions Issued in Case Where Lawyers Cited ChatGPT-Hallucinated Precedents From today's opinion in Mata v. Avianca, Inc., by Judge Kevin Castel (S.D.N.Y.), which stems from an incident blogged about here last month (and see this follow-up): In researching and drafting court submissions, good lawyers appropriately obtain assistance from junior lawyers, law students, contract lawyers, legal encyclopedias and databases such… Reason · Jun 22, 2023
Lawyers blame ChatGPT for tricking them into citing bogus case law A judge is deciding whether to sanction two lawyers who blamed ChatGPT for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing The Independent UK · Jun 9, 2023