The Connecticut Bar Association’s Annual Advanced Labor & Employment Symposium is right around the corner. Scheduled for March 27, 2025 at the Grassy Hill Country Club in Orange, Connecticut, this year’s program promises to tackle some of the cutting edge issues that practitioners face.
I’ll be a featured speaker at one of the day’s programs discussing the history and recent trends involving artificial intelligence in the practice of law and how to ethically use AI in such a practice.
No doubt, I’ll be referring to the recent mess involving Morgan & Morgan, one of the largest firms in the country.
Earlier this month, the firm submitted a brief filled with fake case citations. Nine according to the court. Suffice to say the court was not happy and required the attorneys to explain their actions to the court.
The attorneys in question then submitted a “mea culpa” that no attorney likely ever wants to write to a court: “This matter comes with great embarrassment and has prompted discussion and action regarding the training, implementation, and future use of artificial intelligence within our firm.”
The sad thing is that this didn’t have to happen. Generative AI has a number of positive features and Westlaw can quickly check the accuracy of your citations in a brief. Rather, this boils down to things that lawyers have always talked about — checking the accuracy of your cites and not merely relying on a computer output.
I’ll be speaking with Jordan Jefferson of Quinnipiac University School of Law.
In any event, there’ll be lots more that we tackle so be sure to sign up today for this program.