A federal magistrate judge has recommended a $15,000 sanction against Texas-based attorney Rafael Ramirez after he cited fictitious court cases generated by an AI tool. As The Register reports, Judge Mark J Dinsmore of the Southern District of Indiana found Ramirez guilty of failing to verify the authenticity of three cases in his legal brief.
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Court Rules AI Training On Copyrighted Works Is Not Fair Use — What It Means For Generative AI
By Sean
A recent decision found that an AI company’s unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training data was not a fair use, where (i) the use was commercial and not transformative, and (ii) the use affected the value. The Bottom Line A recent decision found that an AI company’s unauthorized use of copyrighted materials as training…
Court shuts down AI fair use argument in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence Inc.
By Sean
Court shuts down AI fair use argument in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. Key takeaways In the first AI fair use decision, the court rejected the fair use defense in the context of AI training data. Key factors in the determination included that the defendant’s use was not transformative and that it…
Singapore: Guidelines for lawyers using AI in works amid concerns over user info, search history being stored
By Sean
The Straits Times Minister of State for Law Murali Pillai said the ministry is focused on the impact of technology in the legal sector. Legal professionals will soon be equipped with a set of guidelines to assist them in the use of generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) in their work. Speaking at the debate on…
Ambrogi Reviews Wolters Kluwer’s Competitive Bidding Tool LegalCollaborator
By Sean
He writes Wolters Kluwer today beefed up its LegalCollaborator product for corporate legal departments with the addition of new summarization functionality driven by generative artificial intelligence and the ability for legal departments to now leverage reverse auction capabilities to drive more competitive law firm bids. The new summarization capabilities will help corporate legal departments assess how law firm…
vLex and Vecflow give their key takeaways on Vals AI GenAI benchmarking report
By Sean
Legal It Insider vLex and Vecflow have given their takeaways on the results of a first-of-its-kind in-depth GenAI benchmarking study out yesterday (27 February), which analysed their tools alongside Harvey and CoCounsel. The report was conducted by Vals AI, a company that independently evaluates and benchmarks the performance of large language models across industry specific…
AI Hallucination: Cook County Treasurer – 773 F.3d 834 (7th Cir. 2014) – You guessed it doesn’t exist
By Sean
Spotted by Jeff Bazinet Civil Litigator in the US ( Linked In) He writes… The next-level of discipline in fake AI cite cases is here. (Cue Ice Cube’s “Check Yo Self.”) It seems like all I write about lately is cases involving AI-generated legal case cites. This is the latest. Indiana. Federal court. Cook County…
Lawyers Sanctioned for Citing AI Generated Fake Cases
By Sean
Source: JD Supra https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/lawyers-sanctioned-for-citing-ai-3599718/ In another “hard lesson learned” case, on Monday, February 24, 2025, a federal district court sanctioned three lawyers from the national law firm Morgan & Morgan for citing artificial intelligence (AI)-generated fake cases in motions in limine. Of the nine cases cited in the motions, eight were non-existent. Although two of…
WilsonAI raises $1.7m to build ‘AI paralegal’
By Sean
Legal IT Insider San Francisco-founded legal tech startup WilsonAI has raised $1.7m to build what it describes as an AI paralegal; an AI agent that integrates with legal teams’ existing systems and data, automating repetitive legal tasks such as handling routine legal requests, answering common questions, and reviewing contracts. The $1.7M pre-seed round was…
Lewis Silkin announces it is rolling out Harvey across the firm making the legal generative AI platform available to everyone in the firm
By Sean
https://legaltechnology.com/2025/02/24/lewis-silkin-rolls-out-harvey-across-the-firm/Legal Technology.Com reports UK law firm Lewis Silkin has become the latest firm to make Harvey’s legal generative AI platform available to everyone in the firm, as part of what business and technology leader and strategist Alex Bazin says is the firm’s path to becoming a tech-enabled law firm. Announcing the roll out on LinkedIn last week,…