The authors state "New York judges drafting decisions and practitioners citing authority to New York courts should consider using the Official New York Law Reports citation style—known as the 'Tanbook ...
The talk on X and LinkedIn among attorneys lately is about fake artificial intelligence-generated cases being included in court filings. And it’s happened again in Texas and Pennsylvania. In one ...
This story starts — but certainly doesn't end — in 19th century Maryland, when John Townshend updated his will. Townshend grew convinced at the end of his life that God would punish him if he did not ...
From Kruse v. Karlen, decided yesterday by the Missouri Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge Kurt Odenwald, joined by Judges Michael E. Gardner and Renée D. Hardin-Tammons (for more on the earlier ...
NEW YORK — Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's onetime personal lawyer and fixer, says he unwittingly passed along to his attorney bogus artificial intelligence-generated legal case citations he got online ...
Unsurprisingly, lawyers aren't the only ones to use AI programs (such as ChatGPT) to write portions of briefs, and thus end up filing briefs that contain AI-generated fake cases or fake quotations (cf ...
Five attorneys who signed a legal brief that had fabricated citations hallucinated by AI may be sanctioned by a federal judge in Kansas.
Three of the private attorneys representing Alabama’s prison system have been publicly reprimanded by a federal judge for using fake legal citations. The scathing order said lawyers Matthew Reeves, ...
Michael Cohen, former President Trump’s onetime fixer and lawyer, admitted in a filing unsealed Friday that he inadvertently gave his lawyer fake legal case citations generated by artificial ...
Michael Cohen was looking for cases to back up his legal claim, so he turned to Google's AI chatbot, Bard. But the cases were bogus. Cohen's lawyer never checked that the cases actually existed before ...
is an experienced journalist with a diverse background in reporting, anchoring, and digital media. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Since December 2024, the city has been ramping up enforcement of water ...
A California attorney must pay a $10,000 fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT. The fine appears to be the largest issued ...