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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…