Remember back in 2023 when everyone like me posted about the Mata v. Avianca case, which seemed to be the first (or at least, the first to earn national attention) case in which lawyers filed briefs with citations hallucinated by generative artificial intelligence. The lawyers ended up sanctioned, some of my nerd friends got a
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Daddy Sang Bass, Mama Sang Ethics
If any of you are in need of 2.5-3 on-demand ethics CLE hours (depending on how your state counts time), or are curious about what happens when people who are not me* try to make ethics CLE fun, Cleveland-based Squire Patton Boggs has created a free long-form ethics CLE musical. (Hey, I run a legal…
And, Cohen Both Takes The Fall And Passes The Buck
A quick update on New York’s Second AI Hallucination case, which I originally covered a couple of weeks ago—today we learned that Michael Cohen, the client, and not David Schwartz, the lawyer, used artificial intelligence (this time, Google Bard) to generate cases that did not exist. In a declaration he submitted to the court (available…
If They Can Screw Up There, They’ll Screw Up Anywhere
It’s an ethics twofer out of New York, New York (specifically the Southern District of New York) this week. First, Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s lawyer David M. Schwartz filed a motion to end his client’s supervised release early. In the motion paperwork, Schwartz cited three District Court decisions. Routine, right? Regular readers of this…
The First Rule Of Messing-Stuff-Up Club: Don't Blame the Intern
Another day, another misuse of ChatGPT. A Colorado attorney was fired from his job after using, and suspended last month for one year and one day (with all but 90 days stayed, subject to probation) because he used, ChatGPT to prepare a motion. As with other lawyers who’ve gotten into trouble for misusing AI, Zachariah…